1895 - 1981
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.
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Among writers, Fredric Wertham ranks 4,358 out of 5,755. Before 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.
1775 - 1864
HPI: 47.55
Rank: 4,352
1910 - 2003
HPI: 47.53
Rank: 4,353
1846 - 1911
HPI: 47.53
Rank: 4,354
1928 - 1990
HPI: 47.53
Rank: 4,355
1894 - 1959
HPI: 47.52
Rank: 4,356
1895 - 1972
HPI: 47.52
Rank: 4,357
1895 - 1981
HPI: 47.50
Rank: 4,358
1949 - Present
HPI: 47.50
Rank: 4,359
1924 - 2014
HPI: 47.49
Rank: 4,360
1962 - Present
HPI: 47.49
Rank: 4,361
1894 - 1959
HPI: 47.49
Rank: 4,362
1898 - 1994
HPI: 47.48
Rank: 4,363
1881 - 1983
HPI: 47.47
Rank: 4,364
Among people born in 1895, Fredric Wertham ranks 188. Before 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 153. Before 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.
1895 - 1980
HPI: 48.67
Rank: 182
1895 - 1989
HPI: 48.13
Rank: 183
1895 - 1958
HPI: 48.09
Rank: 184
1895 - 1930
HPI: 48.08
Rank: 185
1895 - 1989
HPI: 47.52
Rank: 186
1895 - 1972
HPI: 47.52
Rank: 187
1895 - 1981
HPI: 47.50
Rank: 188
1895 - 1955
HPI: 47.46
Rank: 189
1895 - 1968
HPI: 47.39
Rank: 190
1895 - 1962
HPI: 47.31
Rank: 191
1895 - 1961
HPI: 47.26
Rank: 192
1895 - 1925
HPI: 47.25
Rank: 193
1895 - 1980
HPI: 47.12
Rank: 194
1889 - 1981
HPI: 47.82
Rank: 147
1889 - 1981
HPI: 47.79
Rank: 148
1894 - 1981
HPI: 47.76
Rank: 149
1901 - 1981
HPI: 47.75
Rank: 150
1886 - 1981
HPI: 47.64
Rank: 151
1897 - 1981
HPI: 47.62
Rank: 152
1895 - 1981
HPI: 47.50
Rank: 153
1908 - 1981
HPI: 47.47
Rank: 154
1889 - 1981
HPI: 47.44
Rank: 155
1943 - 1981
HPI: 47.40
Rank: 156
1950 - 1981
HPI: 47.34
Rank: 157
1921 - 1981
HPI: 47.33
Rank: 158
1899 - 1981
HPI: 47.11
Rank: 159
Among people born in Germany, Fredric Wertham ranks 3,977 out of 6,142. Before 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).
1948 - Present
HPI: 47.53
Rank: 3,971
1984 - Present
HPI: 47.53
Rank: 3,972
1954 - Present
HPI: 47.52
Rank: 3,973
1926 - 2010
HPI: 47.52
Rank: 3,974
1778 - 1844
HPI: 47.51
Rank: 3,975
1626 - 1690
HPI: 47.51
Rank: 3,976
1895 - 1981
HPI: 47.50
Rank: 3,977
1940 - Present
HPI: 47.50
Rank: 3,978
1806 - 1880
HPI: 47.50
Rank: 3,979
1876 - 1959
HPI: 47.49
Rank: 3,980
1924 - 2014
HPI: 47.49
Rank: 3,981
1949 - Present
HPI: 47.48
Rank: 3,982
1607 - 1667
HPI: 47.47
Rank: 3,983
Among writers born in Germany, Fredric Wertham ranks 260. Before 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).
1746 - 1818
HPI: 47.83
Rank: 254
1929 - 2007
HPI: 47.74
Rank: 255
1853 - 1940
HPI: 47.73
Rank: 256
1916 - 1991
HPI: 47.66
Rank: 257
1815 - 1884
HPI: 47.65
Rank: 258
1940 - 2019
HPI: 47.58
Rank: 259
1895 - 1981
HPI: 47.50
Rank: 260
1924 - 2014
HPI: 47.49
Rank: 261
1607 - 1667
HPI: 47.47
Rank: 262
1819 - 1899
HPI: 47.45
Rank: 263
1878 - 1942
HPI: 47.42
Rank: 264
1909 - 2006
HPI: 47.21
Rank: 265
1908 - 1993
HPI: 47.13
Rank: 266