New games! PlayTrivia andBirthle.

WRITER

Fredric Wertham

1895 - 1981

Photo of Fredric Wertham

Icon of person Fredric Wertham

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 346,768 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Fredric Wertham is the 4,358th most popular writer (down from 4,075th in 2019), the 3,977th most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,582nd in 2019) and the 260th most popular German Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 350k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 47.50

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.76

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.52

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Page views of Fredric Werthams by language


Among WRITERS

Among writers, Fredric Wertham ranks 4,358 out of 5,755Before him are Walter Savage Landor, Rachel de Queiroz, Carrie Nation, Mário Pinto de Andrade, Hans Henny Jahnn, and Edmund Wilson. After him are Chris Van Allsburg, Peter Scholl-Latour, Atiq Rahimi, Vitaly Bianki, Rosa Chacel, and Mordecai Kaplan.

Most Popular Writers in Wikipedia

Go to all Rankings

Contemporaries

Among people born in 1895, Fredric Wertham ranks 188Before him are Joseph Banks Rhine, John J. McCloy, Carl Westergren, Max Valier, Frank Foss, and Edmund Wilson. After him are Shemp Howard, Hertha Sponer, Josef Uridil, Ion Barbu, Geo Milev, and Ben Sharpsteen. Among people deceased in 1981, Fredric Wertham ranks 153Before him are Gerhard Marcks, Anita Loos, Paul Hörbiger, Mark Donskoy, Tadeusz Kotarbiński, and Rosa Ponselle. After him are Ludwig Goldbrunner, Richard O'Connor, Bob Hite, Rino Gaetano, János Pilinszky, and Mikhail Zharov.

Others Born in 1895

Go to all Rankings

Others Deceased in 1981

Go to all Rankings

In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Fredric Wertham ranks 3,977 out of 6,142Before him are Oliver Shanti (1948), Per Mertesacker (1984), Karl-Heinz Körbel (1954), Anneliese Rothenberger (1926), Carl Bernhard von Trinius (1778), and Ole Borch (1626). After him are Wolf Kahler (1940), Christian August Friedrich Peters (1806), Felix Jacoby (1876), Peter Scholl-Latour (1924), Kurt Beck (1949), and Johann von Rist (1607).

Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Fredric Wertham ranks 260Before him are Joachim Heinrich Campe (1746), Walter Kempowski (1929), Mato Kósyk (1853), Wolfgang Hildesheimer (1916), Emanuel Geibel (1815), and Mirjam Pressler (1940). After him are Peter Scholl-Latour (1924), Johann von Rist (1607), Klaus Groth (1819), Carl Sternheim (1878), Hilde Domin (1909), and Hans Werner Richter (1908).