WRITER

Jakob van Hoddis

1887 - 1942

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Jakob van Hoddis (16 May 1887 – May/June 1942) was the pen name of the Jewish German expressionist poet Hans Davidsohn, of which "Van Hoddis" is an anagram. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jakob van Hoddis has received more than 48,576 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Jakob van Hoddis is the 4,972nd most popular writer (down from 4,767th in 2019), the 4,663rd most popular biography from Germany (down from 4,214th in 2019) and the 301st most popular German Writer.

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  • 16

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  • 2.69

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Weltende
German poetry
1958
Tristitia ante
German Authors, Biography
1987
Dichtungen und Briefe
1987
Dichtungen und Briefe
Criticism and interpretation, Correspondence
1987
Weltende
1958

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Jakob van Hoddis ranks 4,972 out of 7,302. Before him are Manuel Alegre, Frank Belknap Long, Jean Cayrol, Gavino Ledda, Vasily Yan, and Richard Hughes. After him are William Dean Howells, Umihana Čuvidina, A. E. Housman, Karl Wilhelm Ramler, Klabund, and Günter Kunert.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1887, Jakob van Hoddis ranks 214. Before him are Bruno Frank, Janne Lundblad, Ivan Kavaleridze, Friedrich Gogarten, Adriaan Fokker, and Gregorio Marañón. After him are Boris Kostić, Sid Kimpton, Karl Johan Svensson, Albert Paris Gütersloh, David Keilin, and René Maran. Among people deceased in 1942, Jakob van Hoddis ranks 197. Before him are Kārlis Zāle, Stanisław Zaremba, Ruth Maier, Frank Churchill, Ivan Horbachevsky, and Cecilia Beaux. After him are Alfred Asikainen, Herbert Selpin, James Juvenal, Mikhail Yefremov, Gertrud Adelborg, and Harald Tammer.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Jakob van Hoddis ranks 4,663 out of 7,253. Before him are Hartmut Briesenick (1949), Princess Marie of Hesse and by Rhine (1874), Ingrid Becker (1942), Reinhold Schünzel (1886), Louis Wirth (1897), and Anneliese Rothenberger (1926). After him are Günter Kunert (1929), Melchior Vulpius (1570), Max Raabe (1962), August W. Eichler (1839), Rüdiger Abramczik (1956), and Dieter Henrich (1927).

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Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Jakob van Hoddis ranks 301. Before him are Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (1927), Heinrich Christian Boie (1744), Adolf Friedrich von Schack (1815), Mira Lobe (1913), Mato Kósyk (1853), and Adolf Brand (1874). After him are Günter Kunert (1929), Johann Gottfried Seume (1763), Wolf Erlbruch (1948), Hermann Kant (1926), Heinrich Zschokke (1771), and Friedrich Leopold zu Stolberg-Stolberg (1750).

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