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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 111,640 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Fritz Mauthner is the 2,839th 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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Among writers, Fritz Mauthner ranks 2,839 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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