1899 - 1974
Emil Erich Kästner (German: [ˈʔeːʁɪç ˈkɛstnɐ] ; 23 February 1899 – 29 July 1974) was a German writer, poet, screenwriter and satirist, known primarily for his humorous, socially astute poems and for children's books including Emil and the Detectives and The Parent Trap. He received the international Hans Christian Andersen Medal in 1960 for his autobiography Als ich ein kleiner Junge war. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Erich Kästner has received more than 576,026 page views. His biography is available in 55 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 52 in 2019). Erich Kästner is the 537th most popular writer (down from 489th in 2019), the 507th most popular biography from Germany (down from 418th in 2019) and the 30th most popular German Writer.
Erich Kästner is most famous for his children's book, The Adventures of Emil and the Detectives.
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Among writers, Erich Kästner ranks 537 out of 5,755. Before him are Premchand, Patrick Süskind, Camille Flammarion, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Washington Irving, and Eugene O'Neill. After him are Marie-Antoine Carême, Ivan Bunin, Laurence Sterne, Kazuo Ishiguro, Wilbur Smith, and Alfred Jarry.
1880 - 1936
HPI: 65.90
Rank: 531
1949 - Present
HPI: 65.90
Rank: 532
1842 - 1925
HPI: 65.89
Rank: 533
1875 - 1950
HPI: 65.89
Rank: 534
1783 - 1859
HPI: 65.87
Rank: 535
1888 - 1953
HPI: 65.84
Rank: 536
1899 - 1974
HPI: 65.83
Rank: 537
1784 - 1833
HPI: 65.82
Rank: 538
1870 - 1953
HPI: 65.81
Rank: 539
1713 - 1768
HPI: 65.80
Rank: 540
1954 - Present
HPI: 65.79
Rank: 541
1933 - 2021
HPI: 65.77
Rank: 542
1873 - 1907
HPI: 65.76
Rank: 543
Among people born in 1899, Erich Kästner ranks 18. Before him are László Bíró, Fred Astaire, Francis Poulenc, Adnan Menderes, Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski, and Duke Ellington. After him are Miguel Ángel Asturias, Béla Guttmann, Fritz Albert Lipmann, Albert Claude, Paul Hermann Müller, and Gloria Swanson. Among people deceased in 1974, Erich Kästner ranks 18. Before him are U Thant, Imre Lakatos, Rudolf Dassler, David Oistrakh, Duke Ellington, and Otto Strasser. After him are Miguel Ángel Asturias, Darius Milhaud, Jacob L. Moreno, Julius Evola, Peng Dehuai, and Fritz Zwicky.
1899 - 1985
HPI: 69.31
Rank: 12
1899 - 1987
HPI: 69.25
Rank: 13
1899 - 1963
HPI: 68.38
Rank: 14
1899 - 1961
HPI: 67.67
Rank: 15
1899 - 1972
HPI: 66.28
Rank: 16
1899 - 1974
HPI: 66.14
Rank: 17
1899 - 1974
HPI: 65.83
Rank: 18
1899 - 1974
HPI: 65.58
Rank: 19
1899 - 1981
HPI: 65.38
Rank: 20
1899 - 1986
HPI: 64.74
Rank: 21
1899 - 1983
HPI: 64.37
Rank: 22
1899 - 1965
HPI: 64.29
Rank: 23
1899 - 1983
HPI: 64.16
Rank: 24
1909 - 1974
HPI: 67.48
Rank: 12
1922 - 1974
HPI: 66.95
Rank: 13
1898 - 1974
HPI: 66.24
Rank: 14
1908 - 1974
HPI: 66.17
Rank: 15
1899 - 1974
HPI: 66.14
Rank: 16
1897 - 1974
HPI: 65.98
Rank: 17
1899 - 1974
HPI: 65.83
Rank: 18
1899 - 1974
HPI: 65.58
Rank: 19
1892 - 1974
HPI: 65.57
Rank: 20
1889 - 1974
HPI: 65.49
Rank: 21
1898 - 1974
HPI: 64.98
Rank: 22
1898 - 1974
HPI: 63.88
Rank: 23
1898 - 1974
HPI: 63.78
Rank: 24
Among people born in Germany, Erich Kästner ranks 507 out of 6,142. Before him are Patrick Süskind (1949), Otto Fritz Meyerhof (1884), August Weismann (1834), Friedrich List (1789), Aby Warburg (1866), and Kurt Student (1890). After him are Otto Carius (1922), Hans Adolf Krebs (1900), Otto Diels (1876), John Frederick I, Elector of Saxony (1503), Matthias Jakob Schleiden (1804), and Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg (1856).
1949 - Present
HPI: 65.90
Rank: 501
1884 - 1951
HPI: 65.87
Rank: 502
1834 - 1914
HPI: 65.87
Rank: 503
1789 - 1846
HPI: 65.87
Rank: 504
1866 - 1929
HPI: 65.86
Rank: 505
1890 - 1978
HPI: 65.84
Rank: 506
1899 - 1974
HPI: 65.83
Rank: 507
1922 - 2015
HPI: 65.82
Rank: 508
1900 - 1981
HPI: 65.82
Rank: 509
1876 - 1954
HPI: 65.81
Rank: 510
1503 - 1554
HPI: 65.80
Rank: 511
1804 - 1881
HPI: 65.79
Rank: 512
1856 - 1921
HPI: 65.78
Rank: 513
Among writers born in Germany, Erich Kästner ranks 30. Before him are Wilhelm Grimm (1786), Traudl Junge (1920), Wolfram von Eschenbach (1170), Jean Paul (1763), Ulrich von Hutten (1488), and Patrick Süskind (1949). After him are Heinrich Mann (1871), Lion Feuchtwanger (1884), Dietrich Eckart (1868), Elisabeth of Wied (1843), August Wilhelm Schlegel (1767), and Ludwig Tieck (1773).
1786 - 1859
HPI: 68.84
Rank: 24
1920 - 2002
HPI: 67.44
Rank: 25
1170 - 1220
HPI: 66.93
Rank: 26
1763 - 1825
HPI: 66.38
Rank: 27
1488 - 1523
HPI: 66.16
Rank: 28
1949 - Present
HPI: 65.90
Rank: 29
1899 - 1974
HPI: 65.83
Rank: 30
1871 - 1950
HPI: 65.74
Rank: 31
1884 - 1958
HPI: 65.37
Rank: 32
1868 - 1923
HPI: 65.37
Rank: 33
1843 - 1916
HPI: 65.16
Rank: 34
1767 - 1845
HPI: 65.07
Rank: 35
1773 - 1853
HPI: 64.90
Rank: 36