WRITER

František Langer

1888 - 1965

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František Langer (3 March 1888 – 2 August 1965) was a Czech playwright, screenwriter, essayist, literary critic, publicist and military physician. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of František Langer has received more than 20,539 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). František Langer is the 4,294th most popular writer (up from 4,844th in 2019), the 534th most popular biography from Czechia (up from 574th in 2019) and the 57th most popular Czech Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 21k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 49.51

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.93

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.36

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

... Děti a dýka
World War, 1939-1945, Fiction
1940
Korespondence
Correspondence, Czech Authors
2006
...The camel through the needle's eye
1920
Periferie
1925
Pes druhé roty
1923
Byli a bylo
Authors, Czech, Correspondence, reminiscences, Czech Authors
1971

Page views of František Langers by language

Over the past year František Langer has had the most page views in the with 15,005 views, followed by English (5,687), and Russian (2,429). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are English (150.31%), Korean (105.20%), and Russian (98.94%)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, František Langer ranks 4,294 out of 7,302. Before him are Florbela Espanca, Ibrahim Tuqan, Maeve Binchy, Gervase of Tilbury, Iwan Bloch, and William Trevor. After him are Vincenzo Cerami, Colm Tóibín, Hervé Le Tellier, Diane Disney Miller, Janko Matúška, and Decimus Laberius.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1888, František Langer ranks 170. Before him are Zia ol Din Tabatabaee, Dan Andersson, Alexander Chayanov, Irving Cummings, Walther von Wartburg, and Gladys Cooper. After him are Osip Brik, Florence Lee, Tom Phillips, Edward Cook, Edith Evans, and Juan Antonio Ríos. Among people deceased in 1965, František Langer ranks 134. Before him are Hassan Ali Mansur, Konstantin Muraviev, Erik Abrahamsson, Roberto Battaglia, Aldo Nadi, and Khalid al-Azm. After him are Henry Travers, Jeanette MacDonald, Louise Dresser, Frol Kozlov, Ethel Thomson Larcombe, and Ingrid Jonker.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, František Langer ranks 534 out of 1,200. Before him are Géza Fejérváry (1833), Josef Kajetán Tyl (1808), Julius Zeyer (1841), Vladimír Holan (1905), Jiří Holík (1944), and Zdenko Hans Skraup (1850). After him are Jan Blahoslav (1523), Tadeáš Hájek (1525), Tomáš Pospíchal (1936), Hana Mandlíková (1962), Ladislav Klíma (1878), and Ladislav Fuks (1923).

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Among WRITERS In Czechia

Among writers born in Czechia, František Langer ranks 57. Before him are Ludvík Vaculík (1926), Karel Teige (1900), Karel Píč (1920), Daniela Hodrová (1946), Josef Kajetán Tyl (1808), and Julius Zeyer (1841). After him are Jan Blahoslav (1523), Ladislav Fuks (1923), Roderich Menzel (1907), Gudrun Pausewang (1928), Ladislav Mňačko (1919), and Ivan Olbracht (1882).

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