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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 89,847 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Egon Friedell is the 249th most popular historian (up from 876th in 2019), the 615th most popular biography from Austria (down from 585th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Austrian Historian.

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Egon Friedell ranks 249 out of 339Before him are Wilhelm von Bode, Stéphane Courtois, John Foxe, Tony Judt, Johannes Aventinus, and Guo Pu. After him are Mahmoud Mohammed Taha, Max Jakob Friedländer, Charles Barbier de Meynard, Lucius Coelius Antipater, Ziya Bunyadov, and William H. Prescott.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1878, Egon Friedell ranks 120Before him are Takeo Arishima, Agner Krarup Erlang, Ernst Alexanderson, Karl Buresch, Paul Renner, and Selim Palmgren. After him are Anna Coleman Ladd, Charles Dvorak, Emmy Destinn, Chen Jiongming, Ioannis Rallis, and Massimo Bontempelli. Among people deceased in 1938, Egon Friedell ranks 119Before him are Jānis Rudzutaks, Boris Pilnyak, Gösta Ekman, Joseph Strauss, Abdurauf Fitrat, and Leopoldo Lugones. After him are Georges Urbain, Florence Lawrence, Samuel Alexander, Rudolf Stammler, Millosh Gjergj Nikolla, and Max Wien.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Egon Friedell ranks 615 out of 1,237Before him are Carl Moll (1861), Erich Leinsdorf (1912), Richard Tauber (1891), Ferdinand Raimund (1790), Rudolf von Alt (1812), and Franz Schalk (1863). After him are Anton von Schmerling (1805), Otto Muehl (1925), Princess Dorothea of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1881), Archduchess Rosa of Austria (1906), Heinz von Foerster (1911), and Christopher Alexander (1936).

Among HISTORIANS In Austria

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