WRITER

Frigyes Karinthy

1887 - 1938

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Frigyes Karinthy (Hungarian: [ˈfriɟɛʃ ˈkɒrinti]; 25 June 1887 – 29 August 1938) was a Hungarian author, playwright, poet, journalist, and translator. He was the first proponent of the six degrees of separation concept, in his 1929 short story, Chains (Láncszemek). Karinthy remains one of the most popular Hungarian writers. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Frigyes Karinthy has received more than 217,859 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Frigyes Karinthy is the 2,360th most popular writer (down from 2,296th in 2019), the 256th most popular biography from Hungary (down from 243rd in 2019) and the 27th most popular Hungarian Writer.

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  • 61.17

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  • 26

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.54

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.22

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Frigyes Karinthy ranks 2,360 out of 7,302. Before him are Juan de Valdés, Paul Adam, Walter Bagehot, Dmytro Dontsov, Maksim Bahdanovič, and Ybyrai Altynsarin. After him are Jakub Bart-Ćišinski, Salvadore Cammarano, Vítězslav Nezval, Luigi Illica, Frank McCourt, and Ueda Akinari.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1887, Frigyes Karinthy ranks 104. Before him are Samuil Marshak, Johann Radon, Miklós Kállay, Kurt Atterberg, James Finlayson, and Antanas Merkys. After him are Charles Galton Darwin, Edelmiro Julián Farrell, Şükrü Saracoğlu, Simon Kimbangu, Arthur Percival, and Jim Thorpe. Among people deceased in 1938, Frigyes Karinthy ranks 94. Before him are Edwin Hall, Ante Trumbić, Octavian Goga, Hans Litten, Jānis K. Bērziņš, and King Oliver. After him are John Flanagan, Émile Cohl, Otto Warburg, Axel Ljung, Joseph Strauss, and Kazimierz Twardowski.

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In Hungary

Among people born in Hungary, Frigyes Karinthy ranks 256 out of 1,077. Before him are Nicolaus Olahus (1493), Lajos Portisch (1937), Ferenc Plattkó (1898), David Schwarz (1850), Anton Bernolák (1762), and Antal Doráti (1906). After him are Jenő Hubay (1858), László Bárdossy (1890), László Csatáry (1915), Maximilian de Angelis (1889), Rudolf E. Kálmán (1930), and Béni Kállay (1839).

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Among WRITERS In Hungary

Among writers born in Hungary, Frigyes Karinthy ranks 27. Before him are György Konrád (1933), László Krasznahorkai (1954), Miloš Crnjanski (1893), Péter Esterházy (1950), Rosika Schwimmer (1877), and Anton Bernolák (1762). After him are Janus Pannonius (1434), Emma Orczy (1865), Géza Gárdonyi (1863), Béla Király (1912), Mihály Vörösmarty (1800), and George Tabori (1914).

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