WRITER

Franz Werfel

1890 - 1945

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Franz Viktor Werfel (German: [fʁant͡s ˈvɛʁfl̩] ; 10 September 1890 – 26 August 1945) was an Austrian-Bohemian novelist, playwright, and poet whose career spanned World War I, the Interwar period, and World War II. He is primarily known as the author of The Forty Days of Musa Dagh (1933, English tr. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Franz Werfel has received more than 444,372 page views. His biography is available in 45 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 43 in 2019). Franz Werfel is the 533rd most popular writer (up from 580th in 2019), the 62nd most popular biography from Czechia and the 10th most popular Czech Writer.

Frantz Werfel is most famous for his novel, The Song of Bernadette, which tells the story of Bernadette Soubirous, a young girl who had visions of the Virgin Mary in Lourdes, France.

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  • 440k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 71.16

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 45

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.39

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.92

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Franz Werfel ranks 533 out of 7,302. Before him are Pierre de Ronsard, Kumārajīva, Richard Bach, José Martí, Tyrtaeus, and Robert Walser. After him are Jacob L. Moreno, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Kazuo Ishiguro, Lorenzo Da Ponte, Paul Claudel, and T. S. Eliot.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1890, Franz Werfel ranks 24. Before him are Man Ray, Carlos Gardel, Walther Funk, Robert Ley, Fanny Kaplan, and El Lissitzky. After him are Kurt Student, Michael Collins, Bohuslav Martinů, Maria Goretti, Victor Lustig, and Giorgio Morandi. Among people deceased in 1945, Franz Werfel ranks 44. Before him are Roland Freisler, Giovanni Agnelli, Friedrich Fromm, Francis William Aston, Ernst Busch, and Vladimir Vernadsky. After him are Oskar Dirlewanger, Josef Kramer, Hans Geiger, Wilhelm Burgdorf, Robert Ritter von Greim, and Wolfram Freiherr von Richthofen.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Franz Werfel ranks 62 out of 1,200. Before him are Bohumil Hrabal (1914), Peter Grünberg (1939), Anton Raphael Mengs (1728), Karl Renner (1870), George of Poděbrady (1420), and Ludmila of Bohemia (860). After him are Jan Evangelista Purkyně (1787), Jan Masaryk (1886), Jaroslav Seifert (1901), Jerome of Prague (1379), Karl Kraus (1874), and Lída Baarová (1914).

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Among WRITERS In Czechia

Among writers born in Czechia, Franz Werfel ranks 10. Before him are Rainer Maria Rilke (1875), Karel Čapek (1890), Jaroslav Hašek (1883), Max Brod (1884), Milena Jesenská (1896), and Bohumil Hrabal (1914). After him are Jaroslav Seifert (1901), Karl Kraus (1874), Julius Fučík (1903), Jan Neruda (1834), Alfred Kubin (1877), and Adalbert Stifter (1805).

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