1881 - 1948
Emil Ludwig (25 January 1881 – 17 September 1948) was a German-Swiss author, known for his biographies and study of historical "greats.. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Emil Ludwig has received more than 113,616 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Emil Ludwig is the 1,052nd most popular writer (down from 1,004th in 2019), the 221st most popular biography from Poland (down from 191st in 2019) and the 20th most popular Polish Writer.
Emil Ludwig is most famous for his biographies of famous people, including a biography of Napoleon Bonaparte.
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Among writers, Emil Ludwig ranks 1,052 out of 5,755. Before him are N. F. S. Grundtvig, Ernst Barlach, Fredric Brown, Edmund Spenser, Mori Ōgai, and Kobayashi Issa. After him are Alfred Brehm, Adalbert Stifter, Velimir Khlebnikov, Erskine Caldwell, Joan Didion, and Guido Cavalcanti.
1783 - 1872
HPI: 60.67
Rank: 1,046
1870 - 1938
HPI: 60.66
Rank: 1,047
1906 - 1972
HPI: 60.66
Rank: 1,048
1552 - 1599
HPI: 60.65
Rank: 1,049
1862 - 1922
HPI: 60.64
Rank: 1,050
1763 - 1828
HPI: 60.64
Rank: 1,051
1881 - 1948
HPI: 60.63
Rank: 1,052
1829 - 1884
HPI: 60.60
Rank: 1,053
1805 - 1868
HPI: 60.57
Rank: 1,054
1885 - 1922
HPI: 60.57
Rank: 1,055
1903 - 1987
HPI: 60.56
Rank: 1,056
1934 - 2021
HPI: 60.55
Rank: 1,057
1258 - 1300
HPI: 60.54
Rank: 1,058
Among people born in 1881, Emil Ludwig ranks 45. Before him are Asta Nielsen, Theodore von Kármán, Ivan Ribar, Otto Bauer, Alfred Radcliffe-Brown, and William Boeing. After him are Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax, Ludwig Binswanger, Nikolai Myaskovsky, Sveinn Björnsson, Cecil B. DeMille, and Victor Klemperer. Among people deceased in 1948, Emil Ludwig ranks 38. Before him are Tamam Shud case, Georges Bernanos, Uzeyir Hajibeyov, Zelda Fitzgerald, Waldemar Hoven, and Yoshiko Kawashima. After him are Kantarō Suzuki, Dieter Wisliceny, Otto Rasch, Rudolf Brandt, Pompeu Fabra, and Kenji Doihara.
1881 - 1972
HPI: 62.77
Rank: 39
1881 - 1963
HPI: 62.65
Rank: 40
1881 - 1968
HPI: 61.82
Rank: 41
1881 - 1938
HPI: 61.75
Rank: 42
1881 - 1955
HPI: 61.52
Rank: 43
1881 - 1956
HPI: 61.12
Rank: 44
1881 - 1948
HPI: 60.63
Rank: 45
1881 - 1959
HPI: 60.47
Rank: 46
1881 - 1966
HPI: 60.44
Rank: 47
1881 - 1950
HPI: 60.17
Rank: 48
1881 - 1952
HPI: 60.15
Rank: 49
1881 - 1959
HPI: 59.91
Rank: 50
1881 - 1960
HPI: 59.46
Rank: 51
1903 - 1948
HPI: 62.57
Rank: 32
1888 - 1948
HPI: 61.68
Rank: 33
1885 - 1948
HPI: 61.56
Rank: 34
1900 - 1948
HPI: 61.00
Rank: 35
1903 - 1948
HPI: 60.77
Rank: 36
1907 - 1948
HPI: 60.72
Rank: 37
1881 - 1948
HPI: 60.63
Rank: 38
1868 - 1948
HPI: 60.26
Rank: 39
1911 - 1948
HPI: 59.81
Rank: 40
1891 - 1948
HPI: 59.63
Rank: 41
1909 - 1948
HPI: 59.61
Rank: 42
1868 - 1948
HPI: 59.53
Rank: 43
1883 - 1948
HPI: 59.40
Rank: 44
Among people born in Poland, Emil Ludwig ranks 221 out of 1,454. Before him are Magnus Hirschfeld (1868), Ernst Toller (1893), Jerzy Skolimowski (1938), Muazzez Sultan (1628), Ferdinand Cohn (1828), and Wacław Sierpiński (1882). After him are Leszek Kołakowski (1927), Ernst Kummer (1810), Siegbert Tarrasch (1862), Agnieszka Holland (1948), Moritz Moszkowski (1854), and Tadeusz Mazowiecki (1927).
1868 - 1935
HPI: 60.82
Rank: 215
1893 - 1939
HPI: 60.81
Rank: 216
1938 - Present
HPI: 60.76
Rank: 217
1628 - Present
HPI: 60.70
Rank: 218
1828 - 1898
HPI: 60.70
Rank: 219
1882 - 1969
HPI: 60.68
Rank: 220
1881 - 1948
HPI: 60.63
Rank: 221
1927 - 2009
HPI: 60.43
Rank: 222
1810 - 1893
HPI: 60.43
Rank: 223
1862 - 1934
HPI: 60.34
Rank: 224
1948 - Present
HPI: 60.24
Rank: 225
1854 - 1925
HPI: 60.20
Rank: 226
1927 - 2013
HPI: 60.20
Rank: 227
Among writers born in Poland, Emil Ludwig ranks 20. Before him are Christa Wolf (1929), Olga Tokarczuk (1962), B. Traven (1882), Jan Potocki (1761), Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff (1788), and Ernst Toller (1893). After him are Tadeusz Mazowiecki (1927), Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff (1848), Bolesław Prus (1847), Jerzy Kosiński (1933), Arnold Zweig (1887), and Albert Barillé (1920).
1929 - 2011
HPI: 63.26
Rank: 14
1962 - Present
HPI: 63.16
Rank: 15
1882 - 1969
HPI: 61.77
Rank: 16
1761 - 1815
HPI: 61.53
Rank: 17
1788 - 1857
HPI: 61.10
Rank: 18
1893 - 1939
HPI: 60.81
Rank: 19
1881 - 1948
HPI: 60.63
Rank: 20
1927 - 2013
HPI: 60.20
Rank: 21
1848 - 1931
HPI: 59.84
Rank: 22
1847 - 1912
HPI: 59.24
Rank: 23
1933 - 1991
HPI: 59.19
Rank: 24
1887 - 1968
HPI: 59.11
Rank: 25
1920 - 2009
HPI: 58.99
Rank: 26