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Gustav Landauer

1870 - 1919

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Gustav Landauer (7 April 1870 – 2 May 1919) was one of the leading theorists on anarchism in Germany at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century. He was an advocate of social anarchism. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gustav Landauer has received more than 284,018 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Gustav Landauer is the 1,572nd most popular writer (down from 1,544th in 2019), the 1,670th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,633rd in 2019) and the 107th most popular German Writer.

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  • 2.34

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Gustav Landauer ranks 1,572 out of 7,302. Before him are Hugh Lofting, Robert Brasillach, Jean-François Marmontel, Jonas Lie, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and Sister Nivedita. After him are Pramoedya Ananta Toer, Ahmad ibn Mājid, Alistair MacLean, Eino Leino, Ruth Rendell, and Jean Chapelain.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1870, Gustav Landauer ranks 47. Before him are Jan Smuts, François Georges-Picot, Jaime, Duke of Madrid, Lord Alfred Douglas, Marianne Weber, and Bernard Baruch. After him are Archduchess Louise of Austria, Kitaro Nishida, Michael Rostovtzeff, Ignacio Zuloaga, Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel, and Archduchess Margarethe Klementine of Austria. Among people deceased in 1919, Gustav Landauer ranks 45. Before him are Endre Ady, Vera Zasulich, Hugo Riemann, Grand Duke Nicholas Mikhailovich of Russia, Mikhail Tsvet, and Vasily Chapayev. After him are Peter Altenberg, Grand Duke George Mikhailovich of Russia, Leo Jogiches, Adolf Hurwitz, Mark Sykes, and Henry J. Heinz.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Gustav Landauer ranks 1,670 out of 7,253. Before him are Hans-Peter Briegel (1955), Frederica of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (1778), Mary Wigman (1886), Frederick II, Margrave of Meissen (1310), Rudolf Lange (1910), and Moritz von Jacobi (1801). After him are Ludwig Borchardt (1863), Princess Elisabeth of Saxony (1830), Michael Fassbender (1977), Duke Ferdinand of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1721), Edmund Landau (1877), and Prince Augustus Ferdinand of Prussia (1730).

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Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Gustav Landauer ranks 107. Before him are Marianne Weber (1870), Heiner Müller (1929), Stéphane Hessel (1917), Salvian (405), Eduard Mörike (1804), and Adolph Freiherr Knigge (1752). After him are Uri Avnery (1923), Sebastian Haffner (1907), Ludwig Börne (1786), Christian Morgenstern (1871), Martin Walser (1927), and Basil Valentine (1394).

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