WRITER

Frank Schätzing

1957 - Today

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Frank Schätzing (; born 28 May 1957) is a German writer, mostly known for his best-selling science fiction novel The Swarm (2004). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Frank Schätzing has received more than 137,289 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Frank Schätzing is the 5,345th most popular writer (up from 5,501st in 2019), the 4,918th most popular biography from Germany (down from 4,666th in 2019) and the 322nd most popular German Writer.

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  • 140k

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  • 53.66

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.69

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.14

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Frank Schätzing ranks 5,345 out of 7,302Before him are Julie Garwood, Antoni Malczewski, David S. Goyer, Dahlia Ravikovitch, Abu Isa al-Warraq, and Sahakdukht. After him are Tsendiin Damdinsüren, Ferreira de Castro, Dan Pagis, Abdulla Aliş, Tom Peters, and Birago Diop.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1957, Frank Schätzing ranks 331Before him are Mary Stävin, Yasutaro Matsuki, Mohammad Ali Jafari, Thierry Meyssan, Yelena Kondakova, and Matthias Reim. After him are Richie Ramone, Osman Kavala, Andrew Wakefield, Kozo Tashima, Faisal Al-Dakhil, and Phil Mahre.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Frank Schätzing ranks 4,918 out of 7,253Before him are Christopher Cockerell (1910), Karin Baal (1940), Wilhelm Gerhard Walpers (1816), Jörg Lucke (1942), Erhard Keller (1944), and Matthias Reim (1957). After him are Arthur Rudolf Hantzsch (1857), Max Fürbringer (1846), Hermann Oldenberg (1854), Jamal Musiala (2003), Georg Ferdinand Duckwitz (1904), and Frank Shorter (1947).

Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Frank Schätzing ranks 322Before him are Fritz von Unruh (1885), Günther Jauch (1956), Gorch Fock (1880), Curt Siodmak (1902), Horst Faas (1933), and Elisabeth Langgässer (1899). After him are Ludwig Ganghofer (1855), Marieluise Fleißer (1901), Adolf Bartels (1862), Nathan Zach (1930), Carl Amery (1922), and Gabriele Kuby (1944).