1883 - 1924
Franz Kafka (3 July 1883 – 3 June 1924) was a German-speaking Bohemian Jewish novelist and writer from Prague. He is widely regarded as one of the major figures of 20th-century literature. His work fuses elements of realism and the fantastic. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Franz Kafka has received more than 13,757,347 page views. His biography is available in 159 different languages on Wikipedia. Franz Kafka is the 12th most popular writer (down from 9th in 2019), the 3rd most popular biography from Austria and the most popular Austrian Writer.
Franz Kafka is most famous for his novels, "The Metamorphosis," "The Trial," and "The Castle."
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Among writers, Franz Kafka ranks 12 out of 5,755. Before him are J. R. R. Tolkien, Hans Christian Andersen, Voltaire, Edgar Allan Poe, Sophocles, and Leo Tolstoy. After him are Victor Hugo, Virgil, Aesop, Jules Verne, Miguel de Cervantes, and Jean-Paul Sartre.
1892 - 1973
HPI: 88.02
Rank: 6
1805 - 1875
HPI: 87.84
Rank: 7
1694 - 1778
HPI: 87.55
Rank: 8
1809 - 1849
HPI: 86.74
Rank: 9
497 BC - 406 BC
HPI: 86.65
Rank: 10
1828 - 1910
HPI: 86.31
Rank: 11
1883 - 1924
HPI: 86.23
Rank: 12
1802 - 1885
HPI: 86.03
Rank: 13
70 BC - 19 BC
HPI: 85.91
Rank: 14
620 BC - 564 BC
HPI: 85.15
Rank: 15
1828 - 1905
HPI: 84.74
Rank: 16
1547 - 1616
HPI: 84.65
Rank: 17
1905 - 1980
HPI: 84.51
Rank: 18
Among people born in 1883, Franz Kafka ranks 2. Before him is Benito Mussolini. After him are Coco Chanel, John Maynard Keynes, Karl Jaspers, Walter Gropius, Khalil Gibran, Joseph Schumpeter, Anton Webern, Nikos Kazantzakis, Jaroslav Hašek, and Lev Kamenev. Among people deceased in 1924, Franz Kafka ranks 2. Before him is Vladimir Lenin. After him are Giacomo Puccini, Woodrow Wilson, Anatole France, Joseph Conrad, Alfred Marshall, Louis Sullivan, Gabriel Fauré, Carl Spitteler, Archduchess Marie Valerie of Austria, and Frances Hodgson Burnett.
1883 - 1945
HPI: 86.73
Rank: 1
1883 - 1924
HPI: 86.23
Rank: 2
1883 - 1971
HPI: 82.18
Rank: 3
1883 - 1946
HPI: 81.58
Rank: 4
1883 - 1969
HPI: 76.82
Rank: 5
1883 - 1969
HPI: 75.41
Rank: 6
1883 - 1931
HPI: 73.49
Rank: 7
1883 - 1950
HPI: 72.88
Rank: 8
1883 - 1945
HPI: 71.71
Rank: 9
1883 - 1957
HPI: 71.62
Rank: 10
1883 - 1923
HPI: 70.68
Rank: 11
1883 - 1936
HPI: 69.85
Rank: 12
1870 - 1924
HPI: 89.94
Rank: 1
1883 - 1924
HPI: 86.23
Rank: 2
1858 - 1924
HPI: 81.74
Rank: 3
1856 - 1924
HPI: 77.07
Rank: 4
1844 - 1924
HPI: 76.31
Rank: 5
1857 - 1924
HPI: 73.91
Rank: 6
1842 - 1924
HPI: 72.50
Rank: 7
1856 - 1924
HPI: 72.44
Rank: 8
1845 - 1924
HPI: 71.31
Rank: 9
1845 - 1924
HPI: 70.39
Rank: 10
1868 - 1924
HPI: 69.77
Rank: 11
1849 - 1924
HPI: 67.12
Rank: 12
Among people born in Austria, Franz Kafka ranks 3 out of 1,237. Before him are Adolf Hitler (1889) and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756). After him are Franz Schubert (1797), Joseph Haydn (1732), Marie Antoinette (1755), Franz Joseph I of Austria (1830), Maria Theresa (1717), Franz Liszt (1811), Gustav Klimt (1862), Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889), and Arnold Schwarzenegger (1947).
1889 - 1945
HPI: 94.10
Rank: 1
1756 - 1791
HPI: 93.63
Rank: 2
1883 - 1924
HPI: 86.23
Rank: 3
1797 - 1828
HPI: 85.86
Rank: 4
1732 - 1809
HPI: 85.57
Rank: 5
1755 - 1793
HPI: 85.12
Rank: 6
1830 - 1916
HPI: 84.70
Rank: 7
1717 - 1780
HPI: 84.31
Rank: 8
1811 - 1886
HPI: 82.13
Rank: 9
1862 - 1918
HPI: 81.01
Rank: 10
1889 - 1951
HPI: 79.92
Rank: 11
1947 - Present
HPI: 79.50
Rank: 12
Among writers born in Austria, Franz Kafka ranks 1. After him are Stefan Zweig (1881), Peter Handke (1942), Peter Drucker (1909), Robert Musil (1880), Arthur Schnitzler (1862), Elfriede Jelinek (1946), Sándor Márai (1900), Shmuel Yosef Agnon (1888), Paula Hitler (1896), Hugo von Hofmannsthal (1874), and Georg Trakl (1887).
1883 - 1924
HPI: 86.23
Rank: 1
1881 - 1942
HPI: 78.92
Rank: 2
1942 - Present
HPI: 71.92
Rank: 3
1909 - 2005
HPI: 71.68
Rank: 4
1880 - 1942
HPI: 70.15
Rank: 5
1862 - 1931
HPI: 69.25
Rank: 6
1946 - Present
HPI: 69.18
Rank: 7
1900 - 1989
HPI: 68.30
Rank: 8
1888 - 1970
HPI: 68.06
Rank: 9
1896 - 1960
HPI: 67.94
Rank: 10
1874 - 1929
HPI: 66.11
Rank: 11
1887 - 1914
HPI: 65.63
Rank: 12