1874 - 1929
Hugo Laurenz August Hofmann von Hofmannsthal (German: [ˈhuːɡo fɔn ˈhoːfmanstaːl]; 1 February 1874 – 15 July 1929) was an Austrian novelist, librettist, poet, dramatist, narrator, and essayist. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hugo von Hofmannsthal has received more than 403,311 page views. His biography is available in 46 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 44 in 2019). Hugo von Hofmannsthal is the 520th most popular writer (down from 518th in 2019), the 130th most popular biography from Austria (down from 114th in 2019) and the 11th most popular Austrian Writer.
Hugo von Hofmannsthal is most famous for his poem "The Lord's Prayer" and the libretto for Richard Strauss's opera "Der Rosenkavalier."
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Among writers, Hugo von Hofmannsthal ranks 520 out of 5,755. Before him are Fausto Cercignani, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Michel Houellebecq, Ulrich von Hutten, Giacomo Leopardi, and Jostein Gaarder. After him are Ismail Kadare, Giorgos Seferis, Gérard de Nerval, Cassiodorus, Sidney Sheldon, and Lesya Ukrainka.
1941 - Present
HPI: 66.19
Rank: 514
1811 - 1896
HPI: 66.18
Rank: 515
1956 - Present
HPI: 66.16
Rank: 516
1488 - 1523
HPI: 66.16
Rank: 517
1798 - 1837
HPI: 66.13
Rank: 518
1952 - Present
HPI: 66.13
Rank: 519
1874 - 1929
HPI: 66.11
Rank: 520
1936 - Present
HPI: 66.07
Rank: 521
1900 - 1971
HPI: 66.07
Rank: 522
1808 - 1855
HPI: 66.07
Rank: 523
487 - 583
HPI: 66.03
Rank: 524
1917 - 2007
HPI: 66.02
Rank: 525
1871 - 1913
HPI: 66.00
Rank: 526
Among people born in 1874, Hugo von Hofmannsthal ranks 24. Before him are Sunjong of Korea, Gertrude Stein, G. K. Chesterton, Ernest Shackleton, Nikolai Berdyaev, and Talaat Pasha. After him are Nicholas Roerich, August Krogh, Gustav Holst, Konstantin Päts, Karl Kraus, and Antanas Smetona. Among people deceased in 1929, Hugo von Hofmannsthal ranks 10. Before him are Gustav Stresemann, Herman Hollerith, Bernhard von Bülow, Emile Berliner, Sergei Diaghilev, and Wilhelm Maybach. After him are Prince Maximilian of Baden, Thorstein Veblen, Aby Warburg, Habibullāh Kalakāni, Richard Adolf Zsigmondy, and Otto Liman von Sanders.
1874 - 1926
HPI: 67.94
Rank: 18
1874 - 1946
HPI: 67.81
Rank: 19
1874 - 1936
HPI: 67.56
Rank: 20
1874 - 1922
HPI: 66.68
Rank: 21
1874 - 1948
HPI: 66.28
Rank: 22
1874 - 1921
HPI: 66.28
Rank: 23
1874 - 1929
HPI: 66.11
Rank: 24
1874 - 1947
HPI: 66.06
Rank: 25
1874 - 1949
HPI: 65.16
Rank: 26
1874 - 1934
HPI: 64.93
Rank: 27
1874 - 1956
HPI: 64.90
Rank: 28
1874 - 1936
HPI: 64.74
Rank: 29
1874 - 1944
HPI: 64.51
Rank: 30
1878 - 1929
HPI: 69.21
Rank: 4
1860 - 1929
HPI: 68.81
Rank: 5
1849 - 1929
HPI: 66.71
Rank: 6
1851 - 1929
HPI: 66.44
Rank: 7
1872 - 1929
HPI: 66.34
Rank: 8
1846 - 1929
HPI: 66.32
Rank: 9
1874 - 1929
HPI: 66.11
Rank: 10
1867 - 1929
HPI: 65.98
Rank: 11
1857 - 1929
HPI: 65.89
Rank: 12
1866 - 1929
HPI: 65.86
Rank: 13
1890 - 1929
HPI: 65.77
Rank: 14
1865 - 1929
HPI: 65.55
Rank: 15
1855 - 1929
HPI: 64.55
Rank: 16
Among people born in Austria, Hugo von Hofmannsthal ranks 130 out of 1,237. Before him are Leopold, Duke of Lorraine (1679), Roman von Ungern-Sternberg (1886), Dietrich Mateschitz (1944), Karl Thomas Mozart (1784), Helmut Berger (1944), and Archduke Maximilian Francis of Austria (1756). After him are Ivan Illich (1926), Ferdinand Karl, Archduke of Austria-Este (1754), Archduchess Maria Josepha of Austria (1751), Maria Josepha of Austria (1699), Anna Maria Mozart (1720), and Hans Selye (1907).
1679 - 1729
HPI: 66.39
Rank: 124
1886 - 1921
HPI: 66.33
Rank: 125
1944 - 2022
HPI: 66.25
Rank: 126
1784 - 1858
HPI: 66.22
Rank: 127
1944 - 2023
HPI: 66.19
Rank: 128
1756 - 1801
HPI: 66.13
Rank: 129
1874 - 1929
HPI: 66.11
Rank: 130
1926 - 2002
HPI: 66.09
Rank: 131
1754 - 1806
HPI: 66.08
Rank: 132
1751 - 1767
HPI: 65.91
Rank: 133
1699 - 1757
HPI: 65.87
Rank: 134
1720 - 1778
HPI: 65.86
Rank: 135
1907 - 1982
HPI: 65.85
Rank: 136
Among writers born in Austria, Hugo von Hofmannsthal ranks 11. Before him are Robert Musil (1880), Arthur Schnitzler (1862), Elfriede Jelinek (1946), Sándor Márai (1900), Shmuel Yosef Agnon (1888), and Paula Hitler (1896). After him are Georg Trakl (1887), Gustav Meyrink (1868), Walther von der Vogelweide (1170), Hermann Broch (1886), Edward Bernays (1891), and Maria Leopoldina of Austria (1797).
1880 - 1942
HPI: 70.15
Rank: 5
1862 - 1931
HPI: 69.25
Rank: 6
1946 - Present
HPI: 69.18
Rank: 7
1900 - 1989
HPI: 68.30
Rank: 8
1888 - 1970
HPI: 68.06
Rank: 9
1896 - 1960
HPI: 67.94
Rank: 10
1874 - 1929
HPI: 66.11
Rank: 11
1887 - 1914
HPI: 65.63
Rank: 12
1868 - 1932
HPI: 65.08
Rank: 13
1170 - 1230
HPI: 64.89
Rank: 14
1886 - 1951
HPI: 64.82
Rank: 15
1891 - 1995
HPI: 64.51
Rank: 16
1797 - 1826
HPI: 63.87
Rank: 17