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Fritz Mauthner

1849 - 1923

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Fritz Mauthner (22 November 1849 – 29 June 1923) was an Austrian philosopher and author of novels, satires, reviews and journalistic works. He was an exponent of philosophical scepticism derived from a critique of human knowledge and of philosophy of language. He became editor of the Berliner Tageblatt in 1895, but is remembered mainly for his Beiträge zu einer Kritik der Sprache (Contributions to a Critique of Language), published in three parts in 1901 and 1902. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Fritz Mauthner has received more than 101,804 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Fritz Mauthner is the 2,838th most popular writer (down from 2,611th in 2019), the 356th most popular biography from Czechia (down from 319th in 2019) and the 38th most popular Czech Writer.

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Notable Works

Zur Grammatik und Logik
Comparative and general Grammar, Grammar, Comparative and general, Logic, Symbolic and mathematical
1902
Ausgewählte Schriften
1919
Wörterbuch der Philosophie
Philosophy, Dictionaries, German
1910
Von Keller zu Zola
Literature, History and criticism, German literature
1887
Zur Sprache und zur Psychologie
Language and languages
1906
Beiträge zu einer Kritik der Sprache
language criticism, language crisis, language skepticism
Fritz Mauthner conceived, developed and composed these three volumes over a period of about 30 years. He is said to have been influenced by Friedrich Nietzsche's text fragment "Wahrheit und Lüge im außermoralischen Sinne". The volumes were published at a time of a general "language crisis" (see also: Arthur Schnitzler's Leutnant Gustl and Rainer Maria Rilke's Die Aufzeichnungen des Malte Laurids Brigge, among others). Mauthner is considered to be one of those authors who are often quoted and mentioned but whose works are rarely read. These editions are in the original German and need extensive editing. It should be noted that, after the poet Samuel Becket had radically thinned out his library, this three-volume work by Mauthner was one of the few remaining. His writing also influenced James Joyce.
1923

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Over the past year Fritz Mauthner has had the most page views in the with 11,728 views, followed by German (9,819), and Spanish (3,131). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Arabic (383.54%), Latin (52.78%), and Finnish (43.91%)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Fritz Mauthner ranks 2,838 out of 7,302. Before him are Joseph Delaney, John the Lydian, Pierre Grimal, Ronald Harwood, Ben Hecht, and Peter Høeg. After him are Delmira Agustini, Mariama Bâ, Fatma Aliye Topuz, Lucius Afranius, Saken Seifullin, and Ango Sakaguchi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1849, Fritz Mauthner ranks 54. Before him are Agenor Maria Gołuchowski, Jérôme Eugène Coggia, Sergei Ivanovich Mosin, Ida Straus, Benjamin Godard, and Pavol Országh Hviezdoslav. After him are Jean Richepin, Mohammad Yaqub Khan, Ruy Barbosa, William Ernest Henley, Károly Khuen-Héderváry, and Edmund Barton. Among people deceased in 1923, Fritz Mauthner ranks 61. Before him are Hermes da Fonseca, Ernst Otto Beckmann, Alfred Edwards, Andrés Avelino Cáceres, Kuroki Tamemoto, and Louis Couperus. After him are Armen Garo, Semyon Alapin, Ernst Ziller, Mohammad Yaqub Khan, Ruy Barbosa, and Stojan Protić.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Fritz Mauthner ranks 356 out of 1,200. Before him are Zdeněk Burian (1905), Franz Krommer (1759), Hedwiga Rosenbaumová (1864), Josef Kadraba (1933), Václav Talich (1883), and Sigfried Giedion (1888). After him are Jiří Sobotka (1911), Jiří Raška (1941), Zdeněk Svěrák (1936), Bretislav III (1200), Tom Stoppard (1937), and Anne of Bohemia (1290).

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Among WRITERS In Czechia

Among writers born in Czechia, Fritz Mauthner ranks 38. Before him are Alois Musil (1868), Karel Jaromír Erben (1811), Josef Jungmann (1773), Józef Czapski (1896), Josef Škvorecký (1924), and Petr Chelčický (1390). After him are Tom Stoppard (1937), Karel Havlíček Borovský (1821), Karel Kryl (1944), Viktor Dyk (1877), Vladislav Vančura (1891), and Jiří Dienstbier (1937).

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