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Emil Ludwig

1881 - 1948

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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 126,235 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Emil Ludwig is the 1,046th most popular writer (up from 1,050th in 2019), the 223rd most popular biography from Poland (down from 221st in 2019) and the 19th most popular Polish Writer.

Emil Ludwig is most famous for his biographies of famous people, including a biography of Napoleon Bonaparte.

Memorability Metrics

  • 130k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 66.82

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 28

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.82

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.84

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Emil Ludwig ranks 1,046 out of 7,302. Before him are D. T. Suzuki, Cai Yan, Thomas Mayne Reid, Chinua Achebe, Michel Tournier, and Thomas Malory. After him are Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire, Paul Bourget, Emanuel Schikaneder, Giambattista Marino, Henri Troyat, and Tess Gerritsen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1881, Emil Ludwig ranks 44. Before him are Natalia Goncharova, Theodore von Kármán, Carlo Carrà, Otto Wille Kuusinen, Otto Bauer, and Alfred Radcliffe-Brown. After him are Ludwig Binswanger, William Boeing, Giovanni Papini, Nikolai Myaskovsky, Franz Gürtner, and Victor Klemperer. Among people deceased in 1948, Emil Ludwig ranks 36. Before him are Hugo Boss, Umberto Giordano, D. W. Griffith, Iwane Matsui, Pompeu Fabra, and Kantarō Suzuki. After him are Yoshiko Kawashima, Zelda Fitzgerald, Hans Aumeier, Uzeyir Hajibeyov, Kōki Hirota, and Tamam Shud case.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Emil Ludwig ranks 223 out of 1,694. Before him are Władysław I Herman (1043), Jerzy Skolimowski (1938), Leszek Kołakowski (1927), Jerzy Kukuczka (1948), Magdalena Abakanowicz (1930), and Johanna Schopenhauer (1766). After him are Hans Modrow (1928), Felix Hausdorff (1868), Samuel Reshevsky (1911), Władysław II the Exile (1105), Ernst Toller (1893), and Aleksandra Ekster (1882).

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Among WRITERS In Poland

Among writers born in Poland, Emil Ludwig ranks 19. Before him are Witold Gombrowicz (1904), Christa Wolf (1929), Jan Potocki (1761), Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff (1788), B. Traven (1882), and Johanna Schopenhauer (1766). After him are Ernst Toller (1893), Tadeusz Mazowiecki (1927), Arnold Zweig (1887), Bolesław Prus (1847), Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff (1848), and Albert Barillé (1920).

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