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Alois Musil

1868 - 1944

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Alois Musil (30 June 1868 – 12 April 1944) was a Czech theologian, orientalist, explorer and bilingual Czech and German writer. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alois Musil has received more than 75,968 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Alois Musil is the 2,462nd most popular writer (up from 2,858th in 2019), the 296th most popular biography from Czechia and the 32nd most popular Czech Writer.

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  • 76k

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  • 54.63

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  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.85

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.96

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Northern Arabia
Maps
1926
Arabia deserta
Description and travel
1927
The manners and customs of the Rwala Bedouins
Arabic poetry, Bedouins, Folklore
xiv, 712 p. : 23 cm
1928
Arabia Petraea, III. Ethnologischer Reisebericht
2018
Northern Neğd
Description and travel
1928
Zur Zeitgeschichte von Arabien
History, arabic
a historical review about arabic culture and devellopement in chronological steps.
1918

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Alois Musil ranks 2,462 out of 7,302. Before him are Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky, Parthenius of Nicaea, Guan Hanqing, Gottschalk of Orbais, Winston Groom, and William Beckford. After him are María Kodama, Annie Proulx, Rolf Hochhuth, Ariwara no Narihira, Dick Francis, and Christopher Priest.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1868, Alois Musil ranks 89. Before him are Arturo Alessandri, Venceslau Brás, Evelyn Beatrice Hall, Wilhelm Schmidt, Duke Peter Alexandrovich of Oldenburg, and Robert W. Wood. After him are Camille Jenatzy, Oskar Merikanto, Giovanni Giacometti, Jaan Tõnisson, Ivan Regen, and Cai Yuanpei. Among people deceased in 1944, Alois Musil ranks 146. Before him are Noor Inayat Khan, Paul Hazard, Patriarch Sergius of Moscow, Léon Brunschvicg, Franz Kutschera, and Peter Yorck von Wartenburg. After him are Regina Jonas, Thomas Curtis, Bella Rosenfeld, Max Nettlau, Carl Flesch, and Mineichi Koga.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Alois Musil ranks 296 out of 1,200. Before him are Tomáš Špidlík (1919), Karel Kramář (1860), Archduchess Maria Theresa of Austria (1862), Jan Fischer (1951), Vladimír Remek (1948), and Josef Suk (1929). After him are Anton Schindler (1795), Vladivoj, Duke of Bohemia (981), Alois Lexa von Aehrenthal (1854), Miloslav Vlk (1932), Antonín Mrkos (1918), and Otakar Ševčík (1852).

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Among WRITERS In Czechia

Among writers born in Czechia, Alois Musil ranks 32. Before him are Petr Ginz (1928), Josef Lada (1887), Pavel Kohout (1928), Alois Jirásek (1851), Karel Hynek Mácha (1810), and Vítězslav Nezval (1900). After him are Karel Jaromír Erben (1811), Josef Jungmann (1773), Józef Czapski (1896), Josef Škvorecký (1924), Petr Chelčický (1390), and Fritz Mauthner (1849).

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