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Egon Friedell

1878 - 1938

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Egon Friedell (born Egon Friedmann; 21 January 1878, in Vienna – 16 March 1938, in Vienna) was a prominent Austrian cultural historian, playwright, actor and Kabarett performer, journalist and theatre critic. Friedell has been described as a polymath. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Egon Friedell has received more than 96,838 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Egon Friedell is the 212th most popular historian (up from 249th in 2019), the 588th most popular biography from Austria (up from 613th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Austrian Historian.

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  • 26

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.40

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.91

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Egon Friedell ranks 212 out of 561. Before him are Walter Laqueur, Tony Judt, Aulus Cremutius Cordus, Constantine Lascaris, Zeev Sternhell, and Friedrich Meinecke. After him are Guo Pu, Heinrich Graetz, Antiochus of Syracuse, Vasily Klyuchevsky, Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés, and Ivane Javakhishvili.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1878, Egon Friedell ranks 105. Before him are Otto Freundlich, Mirra Alfassa, Theodoros Pangalos, Nikolaos Andriakopoulos, Michel Théato, and Anna Demidova. After him are Carl Sandburg, Maria Ilyinichna Ulyanova, Myer Prinstein, J. F. C. Fuller, Clara Westhoff, and Ioannis Rallis. Among people deceased in 1938, Egon Friedell ranks 105. Before him are Joseph Strauss, Kazimierz Twardowski, Boris Pilnyak, Hovhannes Kajaznuni, Andrei Bubnov, and E. C. Segar. After him are Prince Arthur of Connaught, Prince Johann Georg of Saxony, Gustav Klutsis, Miguel Cabanellas, William Wallace Campbell, and Rudolf Stammler.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Egon Friedell ranks 588 out of 1,424. Before him are Karl Schäfer (1909), Marianna Martines (1744), Carl Millöcker (1842), Infanta Blanca of Spain (1868), Erich Probst (1927), and Joy Adamson (1910). After him are Jörg Demus (1928), Nadja Tiller (1929), Antun Augustinčić (1900), Hans Rott (1858), Herma Bauma (1915), and Johannes Mario Simmel (1924).

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Among HISTORIANS In Austria

Among historians born in Austria, Egon Friedell ranks 4. Before him are Ernst Gombrich (1909), Shlomo Sand (1946), and Alois Riegl (1858). After him are İlber Ortaylı (1947), Gerda Lerner (1920), Andreas Maislinger (1955), Riane Eisler (1931), and Herwig Wolfram (1934).

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