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Ernst Jünger

German soldier and author

1895 - 1998

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His biography is available in 52 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 50 in 2024). Ernst Jünger is the 317th most popular writer (down from 310th in 2024), the 275th most popular biography from Germany (down from 265th 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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Among Writers

Among writers, Ernst Jünger ranks 317 out of 7,302. Before him are J. M. G. Le Clézio, J. M. Coetzee, Ismail Kadare, Herman Melville, Max Brod, and Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau. After him are Antonin Artaud, Doris Lessing, Héloïse, François Mauriac, Henri Charrière, and Italo Calvino.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1895, Ernst Jünger ranks 11. Before him are Santiago Bernabéu Yeste, Juan Perón, Buckminster Fuller, Carl Orff, Buster Keaton, and Anna Freud. After him are Wolfram Freiherr von Richthofen, Jiddu Krishnamurti, Nikolai Yezhov, Mikhail Bakhtin, Richard Sorge, and Wilm Hosenfeld. Among people deceased in 1998, Ernst Jünger ranks 10. Before him are Halldór Laxness, Alan Hodgkin, Jean Marais, Allan MacLeod Cormack, Vasily Arkhipov, and Todor Zhivkov. After him are Vladimir Prelog, Carlos Castaneda, Octavio Paz, Jean-François Lyotard, Yang Shangkun, and Florence Griffith Joyner.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Ernst Jünger ranks 275 out of NaN. Before him are Max Scheler (1874), Wilhelm Canaris (1887), Oswald Spengler (1880), Leopold von Ranke (1795), Irma Grese (1923), and Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor (1016). After him are Herbert Marcuse (1898), Athanasius Kircher (1602), Wilhelm Eduard Weber (1804), Wilhelm Pieck (1876), Hansi Flick (1965), and Maria Sibylla Merian (1647).

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Among Writers In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Ernst Jünger ranks 19. Before him are Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729), Nelly Sachs (1891), Paul Heyse (1830), Friedrich Schlegel (1772), Eckhart Tolle (1948), and Jacob Grimm (1785). After him are Michael Ende (1929), Heinrich von Kleist (1777), Karl May (1842), Wilhelm Grimm (1786), Einhard (770), and Traudl Junge (1920).

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