WRITER

Carl Sternheim

1878 - 1942

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Carl Sternheim (born William Adolph Carl Francke; 1 April 1878 – 3 November 1942) was a German playwright and short story writer. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Carl Sternheim has received more than 42,953 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia. Carl Sternheim is the 4,215th most popular writer (up from 4,367th in 2019), the 4,155th most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,987th in 2019) and the 257th most popular German Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Carl Sternheim ranks 4,215 out of 7,302Before him are Ma Duanlin, Mary Seacole, Justinas Marcinkevičius, Léon Damas, Catherine Millet, and David Allen. After him are Dorothea Viehmann, Antanas Baranauskas, Vasyl Stefanyk, Esteban Echeverría, William of Poitiers, and Guillermo Arriaga.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1878, Carl Sternheim ranks 159Before him are Rudolf Walden, Princess Maria di Grazia of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Giuseppe Adami, Richard Goldschmidt, Holcombe Ward, and Charles Dvorak. After him are Fidel Dávila Arrondo, Viktor Nogin, Pat McDonald, René Maire, Konstantinos Logothetopoulos, and Konstantinos Paspatis. Among people deceased in 1942, Carl Sternheim ranks 167Before him are Emil von Sauer, Demetrios Petrokokkinos, Racho Petrov, Heber Doust Curtis, Yevgeny Petrov, and Romà Forns. After him are Hugo Distler, Jerzy Różycki, Refik Saydam, Alexandre Volkoff, Laura Hope Crews, and Oskari Mantere.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Carl Sternheim ranks 4,155 out of 7,253Before him are Frederick, Duke of Mecklenburg-Grabow (1638), Theodor Fischer (1862), Princess Pauline of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1852), Prince Ludwig of Bavaria (1913), Otto Jahn (1813), and Gerhard Marcks (1889). After him are Johannes Brenz (1499), Ludwig Bieberbach (1886), Anton Friedrich Büsching (1724), Thomas Reiter (1958), Princess Margarita of Baden (1932), and Klaus Wunder (1950).

Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Carl Sternheim ranks 257Before him are Barthold Heinrich Brockes (1680), Ken Adam (1921), Maximilian Harden (1861), Brigitte Hamann (1940), Detlev von Liliencron (1844), and Johann von Rist (1607). After him are Bel Kaufman (1911), Joachim Ringelnatz (1883), Iwan Bloch (1872), Fritz Reuter (1810), Joachim Heinrich Campe (1746), and Herbert Achternbusch (1938).