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John Henry Mackay

1864 - 1933

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John Henry Mackay (February 6, 1864 – May 16, 1933) was a Scottish-German egoist anarchist, thinker and writer. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Henry Mackay has received more than 165,358 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). John Henry Mackay is the 3,401st most popular writer (up from 3,592nd in 2019), the 2,441st most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 2,649th in 2019) and the 278th most popular British Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 170k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 51.83

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.25

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.16

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Die Anarchisten
2012
Sturm
1890
Max Stirner
Philosophers, Biography
1898
Der Puppenjunge
Male prostitutes, Sexuality, Gay men
This is a pederastic novel of the Berlin boy-bars. Puppenjunge translates literally as "The Boy-Doll", but published in English as The Hustler, as 'Puppenjunge' was Berlin slang for 'male prostitute'. In a note to the American publisher of this book, Christopher Isherwood said, "It gives a picture of the Berlin sexual underworld early in this century which I know, from my own experience, to be authentic."
1926
Die Anarchisten
Anarchists, Anarchists in fiction, Fiction
Die Anarchisten: Kulturgemälde aus dem Ende des XIX Jahrhunderts (The Anarchists: A Picture of Civilization at the Close of the Nineteenth Century) is a book by anarchist writer John Henry Mackay published in German and English in 1891. It is the best known and most widely read of Mackay's works, and made him famous overnight. Mackay made it clear in the book's subtitle that it was not intended as a novel, and complained when it was criticised as such, declaring it instead propaganda. A Yiddish translation by Abraham Frumkin was published in London in 1908 by the Arbeter Fraynd collective, with an introduction by the journal's editor, prominent London anarchist Rudolf Rocker. It was also translated into Czech, Dutch, French, Italian, Russian, Spanish, and Swedish. Die Anarchisten had sold 6,500 copies in Germany by 1903, 8,000 by 1911, and over 15,000 by the time of the author's death in 1933.
1891
Freiheitssucher
2012

Among WRITERS

Among writers, John Henry Mackay ranks 3,401 out of 7,302. Before him are Ella Maillart, Filippo Buonaccorsi, Gérard de Villiers, Jean-François Regnard, Victor Pelevin, and Georgi Sava Rakovski. After him are Pierre Bec, Spencer Johnson, Max Aub, Abdallah ibn al-Mu'tazz, Augusto Genina, and Mikhail Koltsov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1864, John Henry Mackay ranks 101. Before him are Maud Watson, Léon Gaumont, José Gregorio Hernández, Charlotte of Schaumburg-Lippe, Futabatei Shimei, and Marguerite Durand. After him are Akashi Motojiro, Leonard Hobhouse, Vladimir Steklov, Juan Benlloch i Vivó, Louis Lumière, and Sándor Simonyi-Semadam. Among people deceased in 1933, John Henry Mackay ranks 70. Before him are Franz Nopcsa von Felső-Szilvás, Luis Miguel Sánchez Cerro, Zacharia Paliashvili, Robert Kajanus, Mykola Khvylovy, and Robert T. A. Innes. After him are Lilla Cabot Perry, Mary Ann Bevan, Chen Jiongming, Gustaf Cederström, James J. Corbett, and Boris Rosing.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, John Henry Mackay ranks 2,441 out of 8,785. Before him are Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham (1478), Thomas Wright (1711), Eddie Clarke (1950), Ian Khama (1953), Robert T. A. Innes (1861), and Charles James Fox (1749). After him are Prince Maurice of Battenberg (1891), John Shrapnel (1942), Sidney Smith (1764), Grace Elliott (1754), J. B. Priestley (1894), and Ray Clemence (1948).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, John Henry Mackay ranks 278. Before him are Arnold Wesker (1932), David Crystal (1941), John Ford (1586), Vera Brittain (1893), William Hope Hodgson (1877), and Charles Lamb (1775). After him are Grace Elliott (1754), J. B. Priestley (1894), John Osborne (1929), John Evelyn (1620), Robert Kerr (1755), and David C. H. Austin (1926).

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