WRITER

Ernst Jünger

1895 - 1998

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Ernst Jünger (German pronunciation: [ɛʁnst ˈjʏŋɐ]; 29 March 1895 – 17 February 1998) was a German author, highly decorated soldier, philosopher, and entomologist who became publicly known for his World War I memoir Storm of Steel. The son of a successful businessman and chemist, Jünger rebelled against an affluent upbringing and sought adventure in the Wandervogel German youth movement, before running away to briefly serve in the French Foreign Legion, which was an illegal act in Germany. However, he escaped prosecution due to his father's efforts and was able to enlist in the German Army on the outbreak of World War I in 1914. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ernst Jünger has received more than 1,795,393 page views. His biography is available in 50 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 48 in 2019). Ernst Jünger is the 310th most popular writer (down from 289th in 2019), the 265th most popular biography from Germany (down from 250th in 2019) and the 19th most popular German Writer.

Ernst Jünger is most famous for his work as a German soldier during World War I, and his writings about the experience.

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Notable Works

Gläserne Bienen
1957
In Stahlgewittern
1922
Aladdin's problem
Fiction
Friedrich Baroh, an East German soldier, defects to the West, where he obtains a college degree and decides to build Terrestra, an international, nondenominational necropolis, in a remote area of Turkey
1983
Werke
1920
Auf den Marmorklippen
1939
Gärten und Strassen
1942

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Ernst Jünger ranks 310 out of 7,302. Before him are Pierre Beaumarchais, Chrétien de Troyes, Gabriele D'Annunzio, Appian, Antonin Artaud, and Françoise Sagan. After him are C. S. Lewis, Gao Xingjian, Roger Martin du Gard, Gertrude Stein, Guillaume de Machaut, and Henri Charrière.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1895, Ernst Jünger ranks 9. Before him are Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia, Carl Orff, Santiago Bernabéu Yeste, Amin al-Husseini, Buster Keaton, and Richard Sorge. After him are Wilm Hosenfeld, Jiddu Krishnamurti, Max Horkheimer, Anna Freud, Mikhail Bakhtin, and Paul Éluard. Among people deceased in 1998, Ernst Jünger ranks 8. Before him are Akira Kurosawa, Frank Sinatra, Jean Marais, Halldór Laxness, Todor Zhivkov, and Carlos Castaneda. After him are Octavio Paz, Jean-François Lyotard, Niklas Luhmann, Yang Shangkun, Vladimir Prelog, and Raymond Cattell.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Ernst Jünger ranks 265 out of 7,253. Before him are Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880), Princess Ludovika of Bavaria (1808), Karl Ferdinand Braun (1850), Klaus Schwab (1938), Arnulf of Carinthia (850), and Konstantin von Neurath (1873). After him are Wilm Hosenfeld (1895), John of Austria (1547), Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (1744), Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb (1876), Wilhelm Pieck (1876), and Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1691).

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Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Ernst Jünger ranks 19. Before him are Friedrich Hölderlin (1770), Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729), Jacob Grimm (1785), Nelly Sachs (1891), Paul Heyse (1830), and Heinrich von Kleist (1777). After him are Michael Ende (1929), Friedrich Schlegel (1772), Wilhelm Grimm (1786), Karl May (1842), Einhard (770), and Heinrich Mann (1871).

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