WRITER

Fredric Wertham

1895 - 1981

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Fredric Wertham (; born Friedrich Ignatz Wertheimer, March 20, 1895 – November 18, 1981) was a German–American psychiatrist and author. Wertham had an early reputation as a progressive psychiatrist who treated poor black patients at his Lafargue Clinic at a time of heightened discrimination in urban mental health practice. Wertham also authored a definitive textbook on the brain, and his institutional stressor findings were cited when courts overturned multiple segregation statutes, most notably in Brown v. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Fredric Wertham has received more than 383,534 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Fredric Wertham is the 5,798th most popular writer (down from 4,345th in 2019), the 5,215th most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,966th in 2019) and the 345th most popular German Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Fredric Wertham ranks 5,798 out of 7,302. Before him are Iris Chang, Natalena Koroleva, Robert Edmond Grant, Nambi Narayanan, Richard K. Morgan, and Eduard Bass. After him are Marie NDiaye, Gert Hofmann, James Herbert, Antoine Blondin, Dorrit Willumsen, and Miron Białoszewski.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1895, Fredric Wertham ranks 269. Before him are Yakima Canutt, Antoni Słonimski, Alexander Pavlovich Vinogradov, Ove Arup, Alberta Hunter, and Mikuláš Galanda. After him are Evelyn Brent, Albert White, Väinö Ikonen, Carlos Manuel Piedra, Xiang Jingyu, and A. Edward Sutherland. Among people deceased in 1981, Fredric Wertham ranks 231. Before him are Dan Coe, Bronisław Malinowski, Oumarou Ganda, Giuseppe Tosi, Ella Hall, and Big Walter Horton. After him are Nikolay Smaga, Börje Tapper, Howard Hanson, Malcolm MacDonald, Henry Eyring, and Ioachim Moldoveanu.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Fredric Wertham ranks 5,215 out of 7,253. Before him are Joachim Winkelhock (1960), Jörg Heinrich (1969), Otto Bartning (1883), Hildrun Laufer-Claus (1939), Rainer Zitelmann (1957), and Boris Brejcha (1981). After him are Gert Hofmann (1931), Kurt Neumann (1908), Heinrich Hax (1900), Wolfgang Fahrian (1941), Erwin Kremers (1949), and Arthur Tell Schwab (1896).

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Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Fredric Wertham ranks 345. Before him are Erwin Strittmatter (1912), Ralf König (1960), Kito Lorenc (1938), Ulrich Plenzdorf (1934), Irmtraud Morgner (1933), and Marina Lewycka (1946). After him are Gert Hofmann (1931), Wilhelm Genazino (1943), Timur Vermes (1967), Monika Maron (1941), Brigitte Kronauer (1940), and Andreas Eschbach (1959).

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