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Anne Frank

1929 - 1945

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Annelies Marie "Anne" Frank (German: [ˈanə(liːs maˈʁiː) ˈfʁaŋk] , Dutch: [ˌɑnəˈlis maːˈri ˈfrɑŋk, ˈɑnə ˈfrɑŋk] ; 12 June 1929 – c. February or March 1945) was a German-born Jewish girl who kept a diary documenting her life in hiding amid Nazi persecution during the German occupation of the Netherlands. A celebrated diarist, Frank described everyday life from her family's hiding place in an Amsterdam attic. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Anne Frank has received more than 29,494,749 page views. Her biography is available in 125 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 119 in 2019). Anne Frank is the 34th most popular writer (down from 26th in 2019), the 29th most popular biography from Germany (down from 22nd in 2019) and the 2nd most popular German Writer.

Anne Frank is most famous for her diary, which she wrote while she was in hiding with her family from the Nazis during World War II.

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  • 29M

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  • 84.31

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 125

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 9.73

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.21

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Anne Frank ranks 34 out of 7,302. Before her are Giovanni Boccaccio, Denis Diderot, Agatha Christie, Horace, Ernest Hemingway, and Alexandre Dumas. After her are Selma Lagerlöf, Alexander Pushkin, Friedrich Schiller, H. P. Lovecraft, Charles Dickens, and Hermann Hesse.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1929, Anne Frank ranks 3. Before her are Yasser Arafat, and Grace Kelly. After her are Audrey Hepburn, Lev Yashin, Milan Kundera, Bud Spencer, Martin Luther King Jr., Jürgen Habermas, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Sergio Leone, and Hassan II of Morocco. Among people deceased in 1945, Anne Frank ranks 4. Before her are Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, and Franklin D. Roosevelt. After her are Heinrich Himmler, Joseph Goebbels, Eva Braun, Martin Bormann, Béla Bartók, Fedor von Bock, Anton Webern, and Ernst Cassirer.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Anne Frank ranks 29 out of 7,253. Before her are Frederick the Great (1712), Robert Schumann (1810), Friedrich Engels (1820), Max Planck (1858), Johannes Brahms (1833), and Karl Dönitz (1891). After her are Friedrich Schiller (1759), Martin Heidegger (1889), Hermann Hesse (1877), Franz Beckenbauer (1945), Wilhelm II, German Emperor (1859), and Heinrich Himmler (1900).

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Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Anne Frank ranks 2. Before her are Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749). After her are Friedrich Schiller (1759), Hermann Hesse (1877), Thomas Mann (1875), Heinrich Heine (1797), Bertolt Brecht (1898), Erich Maria Remarque (1898), Charles Bukowski (1920), Novalis (1772), Heinrich Böll (1917), and Eckhart Tolle (1948).

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