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C. W. Ceram

1915 - 1972

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C. W. Ceram (20 January 1915 – 12 April 1972) was the pseudonym of German journalist, editor at Rowohlt Verlag, and author Kurt Wilhelm Marek, known for his popular works about archaeology. He chose to write using a pseudonym — spelling his own name backward as an ananym, and latinizing the K as C — to avoid association with his earlier work as a propagandist for the Third Reich. Ceram was born in Berlin. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of C. W. Ceram has received more than 57,770 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). C. W. Ceram is the 2,096th most popular writer (down from 1,950th in 2019), the 2,228th most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,075th in 2019) and the 137th most popular German Writer.

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Notable Works

Götter, Gräber, und Gelehrte im Bild
1957
Götter, Gräber und Gelehrte
Archaeology
An account of major archaeologists' explorations and their discoveries.
19494 / 5
Yestermorrow
Progress
1961
The Secret of the Hittites
History
The author of the acclaimed Gods, Graves, and Scholars tells the dramatic tale of the Hittites, an Indo-European people who became a dominant power in the Middle East. Their struggle in Egypt with Ramses II for control of Syria led to one of the greatest battles of the ancient world. The fall of the Hittite empire was sudden, and historical records were scarce--until the discovery of cuneiform tablets yielded a rich store of information on which this work is based. "...a saga richly charged with dramatic twists and with enthralling accounts of scholarly detective work."--The Atlantic.
19553 / 5
Erste Amerikaner
1971
Deus, Tombes I Savis
1986

Among WRITERS

Among writers, C. W. Ceram ranks 2,096 out of 7,302. Before him are Philippe Sollers, Gaston III, Count of Foix, Tin Ujević, Jean Bruller, Yoshida Kenkō, and Hamdallah Mustawfi. After him are Constantine Manasses, Abu Hamid al-Gharnati, Anne Golon, Li Shangyin, Fred Uhlman, and Marthe Bibesco.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1915, C. W. Ceram ranks 82. Before him are Thomas Merton, Arsenio Erico, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Alicia Rhett, Kon Ichikawa, and Liisi Oterma. After him are Nguyễn Văn Linh, Ibolya Csák, Lorne Greene, Jo Van Fleet, Loris Francesco Capovilla, and Tapio Wirkkala. Among people deceased in 1972, C. W. Ceram ranks 79. Before him are C. Rajagopalachari, Stephen Timoshenko, Viktor Barna, Watchman Nee, William Dieterle, and Jo Bonnier. After him are Ernst von Salomon, Nikolay Krylov, René Mayer, Frank Knight, Lillian Moller Gilbreth, and Milton L. Humason.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, C. W. Ceram ranks 2,228 out of 7,253. Before him are Bernd Alois Zimmermann (1918), Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius (1794), Katarina Witt (1965), Lilly Reich (1885), Hans Loritz (1895), and Willi Münzenberg (1889). After him are Ernest Casimir I, Count of Nassau-Dietz (1573), Mathias Rust (1968), Fred Uhlman (1901), Hermann Ehrhardt (1881), Andreas Cellarius (1596), and Rudolf Schmidt (1886).

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Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, C. W. Ceram ranks 137. Before him are Carl Zuckmayer (1896), Wilhelm Heinrich Wackenroder (1773), Joachim Neander (1650), Rahel Varnhagen (1771), Ludwig Uhland (1787), and Anton Praetorius (1560). After him are Fred Uhlman (1901), Judith Kerr (1923), Lothar-Günther Buchheim (1918), Ernst von Salomon (1902), Erich Mühsam (1878), and Elisabeth of Schönau (1129).

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