WRITER

Jaroslav Hašek

1883 - 1923

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Jaroslav Hašek (Czech: [ˈjaroslaf ˈɦaʃɛk]; 1883–1923) was a Czech writer, humorist, satirist, journalist, bohemian, first anarchist and then communist, and commissar of the Red Army against the Czechoslovak Legion. He is best known for his novel The Fate of the Good Soldier Švejk During the World War, an unfinished collection of farcical incidents about a soldier in World War I and a satire on the ineptitude of authority figures. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jaroslav Hašek has received more than 376,611 page views. His biography is available in 68 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 66 in 2019). Jaroslav Hašek is the 235th most popular writer (up from 262nd in 2019), the 29th most popular biography from Czechia (up from 31st in 2019) and the 6th most popular Czech Writer.

Jaroslav Hasek is most famous for his satirical novel, The Good Soldier Švejk, which is about a Czech soldier who is drafted into the Austro-Hungarian army during World War I.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Jaroslav Hašek ranks 235 out of 7,302. Before him are Snorri Sturluson, Mikhail Bulgakov, Shams Tabrizi, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Chinghiz Aitmatov, and Nasir al-Din al-Tusi. After him are Ralph Waldo Emerson, Frédéric Mistral, Isabel Allende, Jacob Grimm, Nikos Kazantzakis, and Fuzûlî.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1883, Jaroslav Hašek ranks 10. Before him are Coco Chanel, Karl Jaspers, Walter Gropius, Joseph Schumpeter, Khalil Gibran, and Anton Webern. After him are Nikos Kazantzakis, Lev Kamenev, Grigory Zinoviev, Clement Attlee, Victor Francis Hess, and Pierre Laval. Among people deceased in 1923, Jaroslav Hašek ranks 8. Before him are Gustave Eiffel, Sarah Bernhardt, Vilfredo Pareto, Johannes Diderik van der Waals, John Venn, and Princess Helena of the United Kingdom. After him are Constantine I of Greece, Pancho Villa, Warren G. Harding, Joaquín Sorolla, Pierre Loti, and Dietrich Eckart.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Jaroslav Hašek ranks 29 out of 1,200. Before him are Joseph Schumpeter (1883), Bertha von Suttner (1843), Ernst Mach (1838), Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk (1850), Joseph Radetzky von Radetz (1766), and Miloš Forman (1932). After him are Edvard Beneš (1884), Václav Klaus (1941), Arthur Seyss-Inquart (1892), Hans Kelsen (1881), Leoš Janáček (1854), and Ottokar II of Bohemia (1233).

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Among WRITERS In Czechia

Among writers born in Czechia, Jaroslav Hašek ranks 6. Before him are Franz Kafka (1883), Milan Kundera (1929), Václav Havel (1936), Rainer Maria Rilke (1875), and Karel Čapek (1890). After him are Max Brod (1884), Milena Jesenská (1896), Bohumil Hrabal (1914), Franz Werfel (1890), Jaroslav Seifert (1901), and Karl Kraus (1874).

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