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Béla Balázs

1884 - 1949

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Béla Balázs (Hungarian: [ˈbeːlɒ ˈbɒlaːʒ]; 4 August 1884 – 17 May 1949), born Herbert Béla Bauer, was a Hungarian film critic, aesthetician, writer and poet of Jewish heritage. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Béla Balázs has received more than 136,507 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Béla Balázs is the 1,416th most popular writer (up from 1,529th in 2019), the 154th most popular biography from Hungary (down from 151st in 2019) and the 12th most popular Hungarian Writer.

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  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.33

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.60

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Béla Balázs ranks 1,416 out of 5,755. Before him are Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly, Agrippa d'Aubigné, Aharon Appelfeld, Qiu Jin, Louise Labé, and Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues. After him are Mukhtar Auezov, Giuseppe Ungaretti, Robert Browning, Siegfried Lenz, Joseph Needham, and August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1884, Béla Balázs ranks 52. Before him are Zinaida Serebriakova, Prince Adalbert of Prussia, Hugo Schmeisser, Maria Spiridonova, Ivan Maisky, and Princess Helen of Serbia. After him are Clark L. Hull, Princess Beatrice of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Georges Duhamel, Wilhelm Backhaus, Johan Laidoner, and Eugène Tisserant. Among people deceased in 1949, Béla Balázs ranks 38. Before him are Solomon R. Guggenheim, José Clemente Orozco, Prince Carlos of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Harry Stack Sullivan, Ulrich Salchow, and Alice Bailey. After him are Nikola Zhekov, Leonard Bloomfield, Valentino Mazzola, Vasily Degtyaryov, Joaquín Turina, and Yoshijirō Umezu.

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In Hungary

Among people born in Hungary, Béla Balázs ranks 154 out of 866. Before him are Hans Richter (1843), Charles Simonyi (1948), Ferenc Deák (1803), Taksony of Hungary (931), Joseph Kosma (1905), and Edgar Ætheling (1051). After him are Ludwig von Benedek (1804), Gyula Horn (1932), Árpád Göncz (1922), Mihály Zichy (1827), László Csatáry (1915), and Gyula Zsengellér (1915).

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Among WRITERS In Hungary

Among writers born in Hungary, Béla Balázs ranks 12. Before him are Arthur Koestler (1905), Felix Salten (1869), Ephraim Kishon (1924), Max Nordau (1849), Magda Szabó (1917), and Nikolaus Lenau (1802). After him are Péter Nádas (1942), Miklós Zrínyi (1620), Attila József (1905), Hannah Szenes (1921), Mór Jókai (1825), and Viktor Barna (1911).

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