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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 American military government 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 80,056 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia. Johannes Mario Simmel is the 2,522nd most popular writer (down from 2,165th in 2019), the 538th most popular biography from Austria (down from 467th in 2019) and the 38th most popular Austrian Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 80k

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  • 53.27

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 26

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.61

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.57

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Johannes Mario Simmel ranks 2,522 out of 5,755Before him are Gitta Sereny, Begum Rokeya, William Congreve, Yury Yakovlev, Arthur Young, and Commodian. After him are Ilse Aichinger, Ram Prasad Bismil, Isak Samokovlija, Eric Roth, Yi Kwang-su, and Mahasweta Devi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1924, Johannes Mario Simmel ranks 159Before him are Mohammed Rafi, Margit Sandemo, David Cox, Lubomír Štrougal, M. Karunanidhi, and Franco Basaglia. After him are Max Roach, S. R. Nathan, Gevork Vartanian, Haim Bar-Lev, Ken Tyrrell, and Charles Bachman. Among people deceased in 2009, Johannes Mario Simmel ranks 118Before him are Willy DeVille, Vyacheslav Ivankov, Gene Barry, Francisco Ayala, Savka Dabčević-Kučar, and Walter Cronkite. After him are Budd Schulberg, Bakhtiyar Vahabzadeh, Henry Allingham, Zbigniew Religa, Béla Király, and Guillermo Endara.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Johannes Mario Simmel ranks 538 out of 1,237Before him are Wilhelm von Mirbach (1871), Hans Rott (1858), Fritz Heider (1896), Ernst Marischka (1893), Archduchess Margaret of Austria (1567), and Gitta Sereny (1921). After him are Ilse Aichinger (1921), Ignaz Seipel (1876), Haim Bar-Lev (1924), Rudolf Spielmann (1883), Ferdinand Fellner (1847), and Marlen Haushofer (1920).

Among WRITERS In Austria

Among writers born in Austria, Johannes Mario Simmel ranks 38Before him are Ida Laura Pfeiffer (1797), Vicki Baum (1888), Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić (1874), Hermann Bahr (1863), Johann Nestroy (1801), and Gitta Sereny (1921). After him are Ilse Aichinger (1921), Marlen Haushofer (1920), Heimito von Doderer (1896), Erich Fried (1921), Nathan Birnbaum (1864), and Paula von Preradović (1887).