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WRITER

Heinrich Böll

1917 - 1985

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Heinrich Theodor Böll (German: [ˈhaɪnʁɪç ˈteːodoːɐ̯ ˈbœl] ; 21 December 1917 – 16 July 1985) was a German writer. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Heinrich Böll has received more than 704,924 page views. His biography is available in 93 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 92 in 2019). Heinrich Böll is the 151st most popular writer (down from 133rd in 2019), the 124th most popular biography from Germany (down from 98th in 2019) and the 10th most popular German Writer.

Heinrich Böll is most famous for his novel, The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum.

Memorability Metrics

  • 700k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 73.92

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 93

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 10.17

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.27

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Heinrich Böll ranks 151 out of 5,755. Before him are Emily Brontë, Murasaki Shikibu, Pindar, Elias Canetti, Ivo Andrić, and Eugène Ionesco. After him are Joseph Conrad, André Breton, Dr. Seuss, William Faulkner, Pliny the Younger, and Jean Racine.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1917, Heinrich Böll ranks 4. Before him are John F. Kennedy, Park Chung-hee, and Indira Gandhi. After him are Arthur C. Clarke, Ella Fitzgerald, Eric Hobsbawm, Ilya Prigogine, Joan Fontaine, Frederica of Hanover, Ernest Borgnine, and Anthony Burgess. Among people deceased in 1985, Heinrich Böll ranks 5. Before him are Marc Chagall, Enver Hoxha, Konstantin Chernenko, and Yul Brynner. After him are Orson Welles, Fernand Braudel, Carl Schmitt, Italo Calvino, László Bíró, Simone Signoret, and Rock Hudson.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Heinrich Böll ranks 124 out of 6,142. Before him are Henry the Fowler (876), Theodor W. Adorno (1903), Gerd von Rundstedt (1875), Clara Zetkin (1857), George I of Great Britain (1660), and Georg Philipp Telemann (1681). After him are Augustus II the Strong (1670), Michael Schumacher (1969), Rudolf Höss (1901), Queen Silvia of Sweden (1943), Leopold I of Belgium (1790), and Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767).

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Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Heinrich Böll ranks 10. Before him are Friedrich Schiller (1759), Bertolt Brecht (1898), Thomas Mann (1875), Heinrich Heine (1797), Charles Bukowski (1920), and Erich Maria Remarque (1898). After him are Novalis (1772), Friedrich Hölderlin (1770), Nelly Sachs (1891), Jacob Grimm (1785), Eckhart Tolle (1948), and Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729).

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