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Hanns Heinz Ewers

1871 - 1943

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Hanns Heinz Ewers (3 November 1871 – 12 June 1943) was a German actor, poet, philosopher, and writer of short stories and novels. While he wrote on a wide range of subjects, he is now known mainly for his works of horror, particularly his trilogy of novels about the adventures of Frank Braun, a character modeled on himself. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hanns Heinz Ewers has received more than 150,025 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Hanns Heinz Ewers is the 1,722nd most popular writer (down from 1,689th in 2019), the 1,814th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,702nd in 2019) and the 112th most popular German Writer.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.10

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.73

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Hanns Heinz Ewers ranks 1,722 out of 5,755. Before him are Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay, Clark Ashton Smith, Hannah Szenes, Symeon the Metaphrast, Jules Romains, and José Carlos Mariátegui. After him are Arthur Machen, Dexippus, Sæmundr fróði, Cristóbal de Morales, Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić, and Konstantin Ushinsky.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1871, Hanns Heinz Ewers ranks 44. Before him are Sergei Bulgakov, Ovide Decroly, Gerardo Machado, Danilo, Crown Prince of Montenegro, Zhang Jinghui, and William McDougall. After him are Fedor Tokarev, Wilhelm Stenhammar, Guillermo Kahlo, Ivan Poddubny, Leopold IV, Prince of Lippe, and George Washington. Among people deceased in 1943, Hanns Heinz Ewers ranks 62. Before him are Takeda Sōkaku, Kurt Huber, Wilhelm Kube, Johann Trollmann, Prince Georg of Bavaria, and R. G. Collingwood. After him are John Harvey Kellogg, Alexander Schmorell, Ludwig von Reuter, Christoph Probst, Fethi Okyar, and Yekaterina Budanova.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Hanns Heinz Ewers ranks 1,814 out of 6,142. Before him are Igor Mitoraj (1944), Georges J. F. Köhler (1946), Karl Leopold, Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1678), Princess Alexandra of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1878), Peter Cornelius (1824), and Otto Braun (1900). After him are Henry XVI, Duke of Bavaria (1386), Golo Mann (1909), Franz Six (1909), Franz Danzi (1763), Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben (1730), and William III, Landgrave of Thuringia (1425).

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Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Hanns Heinz Ewers ranks 112. Before him are Else Lasker-Schüler (1869), Marianne Weber (1870), Lothar-Günther Buchheim (1918), Adolph Freiherr Knigge (1752), Wolfgang Borchert (1921), and Jordan of Saxony (1190). After him are Theodor Nöldeke (1836), Elvira Madigan (1867), Margarete Buber-Neumann (1901), Sebastian Haffner (1907), Anthony Ulrich, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1633), and Ludwig Börne (1786).

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