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Benjamin Fondane

1898 - 1944

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Benjamin Fondane (French pronunciation: [bɛ̃ʒamɛ̃ fɔ̃dan]) or Benjamin Fundoianu (Romanian pronunciation: [benʒaˈmin fundoˈjanu]; born Benjamin Wechsler, Wexler or Vecsler, first name also Beniamin or Barbu, usually abridged to B.; November 14, 1898 – October 2, 1944) was a Romanian and French poet, critic and existentialist philosopher, also noted for his work in film and theater. Known from his Romanian youth as a Symbolist poet and columnist, he alternated Neoromantic and Expressionist themes with echoes from Tudor Arghezi, and dedicated several poetic cycles to the rural life of his native Moldavia. Fondane, who was of Jewish Romanian extraction and a nephew of Jewish intellectuals Elias and Moses Schwartzfeld, participated in both minority secular Jewish culture and mainstream Romanian culture. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Benjamin Fondane has received more than 134,818 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Benjamin Fondane is the 2,574th most popular writer (up from 2,793rd in 2019), the 177th most popular biography from Romania (up from 185th in 2019) and the 23rd most popular Romanian Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Benjamin Fondane ranks 2,574 out of 5,755Before him are Uladzimir Karatkievich, Harold Robbins, Xu Zhimo, Polemon I of Pontus, Cornelis de Bruijn, and Cornelis Vreeswijk. After him are Abu-l-'Atahiya, Horace McCoy, Shūji Terayama, Petar Hektorović, August von Platen-Hallermünde, and Béla Király.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1898, Benjamin Fondane ranks 117Before him are Vladimir Fock, Yitzhak Kaduri, Paul Robeson, Vilhelm Moberg, Princess Eudoxia of Bulgaria, and Irene Dunne. After him are Lucius D. Clay, José María Gil-Robles y Quiñones, Helmut Hasse, Vladimir Dekanozov, Marcel Griaule, and Warren Sturgis McCulloch. Among people deceased in 1944, Benjamin Fondane ranks 152Before him are Hans Graf von Sponeck, Félix Fénéon, Miklós Radnóti, Peter Struve, Peter Yorck von Wartenburg, and Missak Manouchian. After him are Amy Beach, Liviu Rebreanu, Regina Jonas, Lepke Buchalter, Itzhak Katzenelson, and Lou Henry Hoover.

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In Romania

Among people born in Romania, Benjamin Fondane ranks 177 out of 665Before him are Constantin Prezan (1861), Francis I Rákóczi (1645), Angela Gheorghiu (1965), Nicholas Alexander of Wallachia (null), Tudor Arghezi (1880), and Edward Luttwak (1942). After him are Lucian Mureșan (1931), Barbu Știrbey (1872), Gheorghe Popescu (1967), Brunó Ferenc Straub (1914), Michael II Apafi (1676), and Júlia Várady (1941).

Among WRITERS In Romania

Among writers born in Romania, Benjamin Fondane ranks 23Before him are Dora d'Istria (1828), János Arany (1817), Richard Wurmbrand (1909), Marthe Bibesco (1886), Mihail Sadoveanu (1880), and Tudor Arghezi (1880). After him are Liviu Rebreanu (1885), Eva Mozes Kor (1934), Mihail Sebastian (1907), Ana Blandiana (1942), Mircea Cărtărescu (1956), and Ioan Slavici (1848).