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Arthur Schnitzler

1862 - 1931

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Arthur Schnitzler (15 May 1862 – 21 October 1931) was an Austrian author and dramatist. He is considered one of the most significant representatives of Viennese Modernism. Schnitzler’s works, which include psychological dramas and narratives, dissected turn-of-the-century Viennese bourgeois life, making him a sharp and stylistically conscious chronicler of Viennese society around 1900. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Arthur Schnitzler has received more than 639,929 page views. His biography is available in 54 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 52 in 2019). Arthur Schnitzler is the 342nd most popular writer (down from 322nd in 2019), the 83rd most popular biography from Austria (up from 87th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Austrian Writer.

Arthur Schnitzler is most famous for his play "Reigen," which is about a series of ten encounters between ten different men and women.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Arthur Schnitzler ranks 342 out of 7,302. Before him are Paul Éluard, Lorenzo Valla, Wilhelm Grimm, Callimachus, Nâzım Hikmet, and Doris Lessing. After him are Luqman, Henry Miller, Marguerite Yourcenar, Apollonius of Rhodes, Max Brod, and Karl May.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1862, Arthur Schnitzler ranks 8. Before him are Claude Debussy, Maurice Maeterlinck, David Hilbert, Philipp Lenard, Gerhart Hauptmann, and Allvar Gullstrand. After him are O. Henry, Aristide Briand, Hilma af Klint, Niko Pirosmani, Victoria of Baden, and William Henry Bragg. Among people deceased in 1931, Arthur Schnitzler ranks 9. Before him are Khalil Gibran, Anna Pavlova, Otto Wallach, Hussein bin Ali, Sharif of Mecca, Omar Mukhtar, and Albert A. Michelson. After him are Geli Raubal, Lili Elbe, Joseph Joffre, George Herbert Mead, Theo van Doesburg, and Carl Nielsen.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Arthur Schnitzler ranks 83 out of 1,424. Before him are Otto Wagner (1841), Maria Anna Mozart (1751), Peter Drucker (1909), Anna Freud (1895), Victor Francis Hess (1883), and Melanie Klein (1882). After him are Archduke Otto of Austria (1865), Geli Raubal (1908), Christoph Waltz (1956), Baroness Mary Vetsera (1871), Albert II of Germany (1397), and Margaret of Austria, Queen of Spain (1584).

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Among WRITERS In Austria

Among writers born in Austria, Arthur Schnitzler ranks 8. Before him are Robert Musil (1880), Paula Hitler (1896), Peter Handke (1942), Shmuel Yosef Agnon (1888), Elfriede Jelinek (1946), and Peter Drucker (1909). After him are Maria Leopoldina of Austria (1797), Gustav Meyrink (1868), Georg Trakl (1887), Hermann Broch (1886), Hugo von Hofmannsthal (1874), and Edward Bernays (1891).

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