WRITER

Johannes Mario Simmel

1924 - 2009

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Johannes Mario Simmel (7 April 1924 – 1 January 2009), also known as J. M. Simmel, was an Austrian writer. He was born in Vienna and grew up in Austria and England. He was trained as a chemical engineer and worked in research from 1943 to the end of World War II. After the end of the war, he worked as a translator for the United States Office of Military Government based in Germany and published reviews and stories in the Vienna Welt am Abend. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Johannes Mario Simmel has received more than 85,239 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia. Johannes Mario Simmel is the 2,769th most popular writer (down from 2,514th in 2019), the 594th most popular biography from Austria (down from 536th in 2019) and the 43rd most popular Austrian Writer.

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  • 85k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 53.56

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 26

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.47

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.63

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Johannes Mario Simmel ranks 2,769 out of 7,302. Before him are Alice Schwarzer, John Zerzan, Carlos Drummond de Andrade, Petr Chelčický, Rosario Castellanos, and Abolqasem Lahouti. After him are Fumiko Enchi, Robert Holdstock, U. R. Ananthamurthy, Tang Xianzu, Alexandre Herculano, and Sibilla Aleramo.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1924, Johannes Mario Simmel ranks 175. Before him are Cicely Tyson, Marjorie Boulton, Josef Škvorecký, Guillermo Rodríguez, Arthur Janov, and István Nyers. After him are Ramón Castro Ruz, Élias Sarkis, Aleksandar Tišma, Yuri Orlov, Christopher C. Kraft Jr., and Werner Kohlmeyer. Among people deceased in 2009, Johannes Mario Simmel ranks 128. Before him are Alda Merini, Zbigniew Religa, Béla Király, Eric Woolfson, Rosanna Schiaffino, and Hong Song-nam. After him are Robert Holdstock, Walter Cronkite, Anselmo Duarte, Natalya Estemirova, Pierre Gamarra, and Andrea Mead Lawrence.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Johannes Mario Simmel ranks 594 out of 1,424. Before him are Egon Friedell (1878), Jörg Demus (1928), Nadja Tiller (1929), Antun Augustinčić (1900), Hans Rott (1858), and Herma Bauma (1915). After him are Albert Apponyi (1846), István Friedrich (1883), Otto Ender (1875), Valentin Inzko (1949), Victor Capesius (1907), and David Alaba (1992).

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Among WRITERS In Austria

Among writers born in Austria, Johannes Mario Simmel ranks 43. Before him are Marlen Haushofer (1920), Ulrich von Liechtenstein (1200), Ilse Aichinger (1921), Heimito von Doderer (1896), Dezső Kosztolányi (1885), and Paula von Preradović (1887). After him are Erich Fried (1921), Nathan Birnbaum (1864), Alfréd Wetzler (1918), Peter Rosegger (1843), Ernst Jandl (1925), and Friederike Mayröcker (1924).

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