WRITER

Daniel Kehlmann

1975 - Today

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Daniel Kehlmann (German: [ˈdaːni̯eːl ˈkeːlman, -ni̯ɛl -] ; born 13 January 1975) is a German-language novelist and playwright of both Austrian and German nationality. His novel Die Vermessung der Welt (translated into English by Carol Brown Janeway as Measuring the World, 2006) is the best selling book in the German language since Patrick Süskind's Perfume was released in 1985. In an ironic way, it deals with Alexander von Humboldt, one of the world's best-known naturalists of the 18th and 19th centuries, and Humboldt's relationship with the mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Daniel Kehlmann has received more than 286,326 page views. His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 34 in 2019). Daniel Kehlmann is the 6,156th most popular writer (down from 5,575th in 2019), the 5,471st most popular biography from Germany (down from 4,736th in 2019) and the 352nd most popular German Writer.

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  • 290k

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  • 43.02

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 35

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.29

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.69

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Measuring the World
Fiction, Long Now Manual for Civilization
The young Austrian writer Daniel Kehlmann conjures a brilliant and gently comic novel from the lives of two geniuses of the Enlightenment. Toward the end of the eighteenth century, two young Germans set out to measure the world. One of them, the Prussian aristocrat Alexander von Hum-boldt, negotiates savanna and jungle, travels down the Orinoco, tastes poisons, climbs the highest mountain known to man, counts head lice, and explores every hole in the ground. The other, the barely socialized mathematician and astronomer Carl Friedrich Gauss, does not even need to leave his home in Gottingen to prove that space is curved. He can run prime numbers in his head. He cannot imagine a life without women, yet he jumps out of bed on his wedding night to jot down a mathematical formula. Von Humboldt is known to history as the Second Columbus. Gauss is recognized as the greatest mathematical brain since Newton. Terrifyingly famous and more than eccentric in their old age, the two meet in Berlin in 1828. Gauss has hardly climbed out of his carriage before both men are embroiled in the political turmoil sweeping through Germany after Napoleon's fall.Already a huge best seller in Germany, Measuring the World marks the debut of a glorious new talent on the international scene.From the Hardcover edition.
2006
Mahlers Zeit
1999
Kommt, Geister
2015
Ich und Kaminski
2003
Beerholms Vorstellung
1997
Unter der Sonne
1998
Fame
Technology, Fiction, Cell phones
2010
F
2014
Mahlers Zeit
Zeit, Physiker, Theorie
1999
Tyll
Germanic literature, Fiction, historical, Germany, fiction
2017
Die Vermessung der Welt
Fiction, Long Now Manual for Civilization, New York Times reviewed
The young Austrian writer Daniel Kehlmann conjures a brilliant and gently comic novel from the lives of two geniuses of the Enlightenment. Toward the end of the eighteenth century, two young Germans set out to measure the world. One of them, the Prussian aristocrat Alexander von Hum-boldt, negotiates savanna and jungle, travels down the Orinoco, tastes poisons, climbs the highest mountain known to man, counts head lice, and explores every hole in the ground. The other, the barely socialized mathematician and astronomer Carl Friedrich Gauss, does not even need to leave his home in Gottingen to prove that space is curved. He can run prime numbers in his head. He cannot imagine a life without women, yet he jumps out of bed on his wedding night to jot down a mathematical formula. Von Humboldt is known to history as the Second Columbus. Gauss is recognized as the greatest mathematical brain since Newton. Terrifyingly famous and more than eccentric in their old age, the two meet in Berlin in 1828. Gauss has hardly climbed out of his carriage before both men are embroiled in the political turmoil sweeping through Germany after Napoleon's fall.Already a huge best seller in Germany, Measuring the World marks the debut of a glorious new talent on the international scene.From the Hardcover edition.
2005
Ruhm
2009

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Daniel Kehlmann ranks 6,156 out of 7,302. Before him are Mieko Kawakami, Walker Percy, Maja Bošković-Stulli, John Addington Symonds, Jaime Bayly, and E. W. Hornung. After him are Ernest Lehman, Irena Krzywicka, Jerry Pournelle, Charles Olson, Henry Jenkins, and Cecelia Ahern.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1975, Daniel Kehlmann ranks 248. Before him are Beto, Albert Serra, Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson, Kong Linghui, Jon Nödtveidt, and Tracie Thoms. After him are T. J. Thyne, Jun Maeda, Jolene Blalock, Hilário, Gergely Karácsony, and Nicki Aycox.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Daniel Kehlmann ranks 5,471 out of 7,253. Before him are Peter Tschentscher (1966), Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud (1974), Stefan Ortega (1992), Martina Voss-Tecklenburg (1967), Herbert Knaup (1956), and Andrew Sachs (1930). After him are Jan Carstenszoon (null), Willi Giesemann (1937), Katrin Göring-Eckardt (1966), Georg Volkert (1945), Julia Fischer (1983), and Hedwig Kohn (1887).

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Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Daniel Kehlmann ranks 352. Before him are Gert Hofmann (1931), Wilhelm Genazino (1943), Timur Vermes (1967), Monika Maron (1941), Brigitte Kronauer (1940), and Andreas Eschbach (1959). After him are Wolfdietrich Schnurre (1920), Sybille Bedford (1911), Wolf Blitzer (1948), Graciano Rocchigiani (1963), Jenny Erpenbeck (1967), and Denis Johnson (1949).

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