WRITER

B. Traven

1882 - 1969

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B. Traven (German: [ˈbeː ˈtʁaːvn̩]; Bruno Traven in some accounts) was the pen name of a novelist, presumed to be German, whose real name, nationality, date and place of birth and details of biography are all subject to dispute. It has been claimed that it would be the pseudonym of one Frans Blom, an explorer of Mayan culture. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of B. Traven has received more than 543,117 page views. Her biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia. B. Traven is the 965th most popular writer (down from 895th in 2019), the 205th most popular biography from Poland (down from 181st in 2019) and the 17th most popular Polish Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 540k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 67.38

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 32

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.17

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.44

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, B. Traven ranks 965 out of 7,302. Before her are Ivan Gundulić, Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, Sulpicius Severus, Chiara Lubich, Percy Fawcett, and Victorien Sardou. After her are Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, Alexander Griboyedov, Imru' al-Qais, Heinrich Kramer, Nikolay Karamzin, and Stephen Covey.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1882, B. Traven ranks 50. Before her are Yanka Kupala, Boris Shaposhnikov, Karol Szymanowski, Otto Neurath, Lluís Companys, and Éamon de Valera. After her are Yusef of Morocco, Wacław Sierpiński, Jean Giraudoux, Petre Dumitrescu, Pavel Florensky, and Aleksandra Ekster. Among people deceased in 1969, B. Traven ranks 33. Before her are Joseph P. Kennedy Sr., Joseph Kasa-Vubu, Moïse Tshombe, Josef von Sternberg, Princess Theodora of Greece and Denmark, and Alexandra David-Néel. After her are Sonja Henie, Enrique Ballestrero, Wacław Sierpiński, Allen Dulles, Vjekoslav Luburić, and Harold Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, B. Traven ranks 205 out of 1,694. Before her are Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff (1788), Frederick I of Württemberg (1754), Cymburgis of Masovia (1394), Nikolaus von Falkenhorst (1885), Vasily Sokolovsky (1897), and Henry II the Pious (1196). After her are Józef Gosławski (1908), Paul Tillich (1886), Heinrich Rickert (1863), Henryk Górecki (1933), Przemysł II (1257), and Karl Denke (1860).

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Among WRITERS In Poland

Among writers born in Poland, B. Traven ranks 17. Before her are Olga Tokarczuk (1962), Alfred Döblin (1878), Witold Gombrowicz (1904), Christa Wolf (1929), Jan Potocki (1761), and Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff (1788). After her are Johanna Schopenhauer (1766), Emil Ludwig (1881), Ernst Toller (1893), Tadeusz Mazowiecki (1927), Arnold Zweig (1887), and Bolesław Prus (1847).

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