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Hugo Ball

1886 - 1927

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Hugo Ball (German: [bal]; 22 February 1886 – 14 September 1927) was a German author, poet, and essentially the founder of the Dada movement in European art in Zürich in 1916. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hugo Ball has received more than 426,219 page views. His biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 34 in 2019). Hugo Ball is the 723rd most popular writer (down from 689th in 2019), the 683rd most popular biography from Germany (down from 654th in 2019) and the 39th most popular German Writer.

Hugo Ball was a German Dadaist poet who is most famous for his work "The Fatherland is in the Heart."

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  • 430k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 69.11

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 36

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.81

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.36

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Hugo Ball ranks 723 out of 7,302. Before him are Alfred de Vigny, Emilio Salgari, Julius Fučík, Geoffrey of Monmouth, Bernart de Ventadorn, and William Saroyan. After him are Longus, Zosimus, Robert E. Howard, Alejo Carpentier, Christopher Tolkien, and Edmond Rostand.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1886, Hugo Ball ranks 29. Before him are Gotthard Heinrici, Zhu De, Robert Robinson, Edward Rydz-Śmigły, Sergo Ordzhonikidze, and Erich Hoepner. After him are Athenagoras I of Constantinople, Kurt Koffka, Archibald Hill, Gerda Wegener, Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, and Michael Curtiz. Among people deceased in 1927, Hugo Ball ranks 13. Before him are Albrecht Kossel, Carlota of Mexico, Gaston Leroux, Andranik, Houston Stewart Chamberlain, and Kang Youwei. After him are Georg Brandes, Jerome K. Jerome, Giuseppe Moscati, Yusef of Morocco, Paul Sérusier, and Armand Guillaumin.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Hugo Ball ranks 683 out of 7,253. Before him are Elisabeth of Bavaria, Queen of Belgium (1876), Johann Heinrich von Thünen (1783), Jürgen Stroop (1895), Gertrude the Great (1256), Rupprecht, Crown Prince of Bavaria (1869), and Luitpold, Prince Regent of Bavaria (1821). After him are Hans Morgenthau (1904), Rudolf Otto (1869), George V of Hanover (1819), Catherine of Saxe-Lauenburg (1513), Karl-Otto Koch (1897), and Moritz Schlick (1882).

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Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Hugo Ball ranks 39. Before him are Elisabeth of Wied (1843), Dietrich Eckart (1868), Bert Hellinger (1925), August Wilhelm Schlegel (1767), Ludwig Tieck (1773), and Bettina von Arnim (1785). After him are Georg Büchner (1813), Clemens Brentano (1778), Ulrich von Hutten (1488), Wilhelm Hauff (1802), Marie d'Agoult (1805), and Karl Harrer (1890).

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