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Edgar Hilsenrath

1926 - 2018

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Edgar Hilsenrath (April 2, 1926 – December 30, 2018) was a German-Jewish writer and Holocaust survivor. He wrote several fictional novels that gave an unvarnished view of the Holocaust which were partly based on his own experiences in a Nazi concentration camp. His main works are Night, The Nazi and the Barber, and The Story of the Last Thought. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Edgar Hilsenrath has received more than 61,898 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Edgar Hilsenrath is the 3,164th most popular writer (up from 3,731st in 2019), the 3,296th most popular biography from Germany (up from 3,566th in 2019) and the 203rd most popular German Writer.

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  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.49

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.93

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Edgar Hilsenrath ranks 3,164 out of 7,302. Before him are Bronisława Wajs, Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz, Jan Gruter, Yasmina Khadra, Henry Kuttner, and Uwe Johnson. After him are Suryakant Tripathi, Eutychius of Alexandria, Yakov Perelman, Casimir Delavigne, Rubem Fonseca, and Lily Braun.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1926, Edgar Hilsenrath ranks 206. Before him are Hans-Jochen Vogel, Maria Emanuel, Margrave of Meissen, Jean Peters, Juan Jesús Posadas Ocampo, Vitaly Vorotnikov, and Rudi Gutendorf. After him are José Alfredo Jiménez, Yvonne Furneaux, Prince Dimitri Romanov, Avraham Adan, James Hillman, and Alfred Körner. Among people deceased in 2018, Edgar Hilsenrath ranks 180. Before him are Serhiy Tkach, Kirin Kiki, Michael Halliday, Lyudmila Alexeyeva, Vladimir Lyakhov, and Tab Hunter. After him are Penny Marshall, Jesús López Cobos, Zhores Medvedev, Abbas, Stefán Karl Stefánsson, and René Houseman.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Edgar Hilsenrath ranks 3,296 out of 7,253. Before him are Paul Kummer (1834), Ludwig Renn (1889), Prince George of Hesse-Darmstadt (1669), Arno Peters (1916), Kurt Jooss (1901), and Karl Groos (1861). After him are Yaakov Litzman (1948), Ernst Ludwig I, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen (1672), George Frederick, Margrave of Baden-Durlach (1573), Anacharsis Cloots (1755), Dieter Hallervorden (1935), and Princess Elisabeth Anna of Prussia (1857).

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Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Edgar Hilsenrath ranks 203. Before him are Princess Alexandra of Bavaria (1826), Walter Hasenclever (1890), Christoph Friedrich Nicolai (1733), Georg Sauerwein (1831), Paul Fleming (1609), and Janosch (1931). After him are Lily Braun (1865), Christian Dietrich Grabbe (1801), Karl Philipp Moritz (1756), Hedwig Dohm (1831), Erich Weinert (1890), and Caesarius of Heisterbach (1180).

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