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Josef Čapek

1887 - 1945

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Josef Čapek (Czech pronunciation: [ˈjozɛf ˈtʃapɛk]; 23 March 1887 – April 1945) was a Czech artist who was best known as a painter, but who was also noted as a writer and a poet. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Josef Čapek has received more than 182,206 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Josef Čapek is the 1,404th most popular writer (up from 1,610th in 2019), the 169th most popular biography from Czechia (up from 190th in 2019) and the 17th most popular Czech Writer.

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  • 180k

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  • 58.24

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 31

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.46

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.25

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Josef Čapek ranks 1,404 out of 5,755. Before him are Gavrila Derzhavin, Ivan Kotliarevsky, Sadegh Hedayat, Ida Tarbell, Ausiàs March, and Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué. After him are Robert Faurisson, Anna Leonowens, Mary of Jesus of Ágreda, Johanna Schopenhauer, Thoinot Arbeau, and Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1887, Josef Čapek ranks 74. Before him are Raoul Walsh, Jack Phillips, Hermine Reuss of Greiz, Hugo Steinhaus, René Spitz, and Marcus Garvey. After him are Giovanni Gronchi, Vasily Chapayev, Leonard Bloomfield, George, Crown Prince of Serbia, Sivananda Saraswati, and Joseph Bech. Among people deceased in 1945, Josef Čapek ranks 109. Before him are August Hirt, Charles Spearman, Werner Ostendorff, Constanze Manziarly, Takeichi Nishi, and Lord Alfred Douglas. After him are Wilhelm Rediess, Richard Glücks, Takijirō Ōnishi, Leonid Pasternak, Wolfgang Lüth, and Walther Hewel.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Josef Čapek ranks 169 out of 973. Before him are Karel Zeman (1910), Vratislaus I, Duke of Bohemia (888), Josef Koudelka (1938), František Palacký (1798), Carl von Rokitansky (1804), and Christoph Schönborn (1945). After him are Georg Benda (1722), Jan Koller (1973), Julius von Payer (1841), Zdeněk Fibich (1850), Jerzy Buzek (1940), and Margaret of Bohemia, Queen of Hungary (1335).

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Among WRITERS In Czechia

Among writers born in Czechia, Josef Čapek ranks 17. Before him are Jaroslav Seifert (1901), Julius Fučík (1903), Adalbert Stifter (1805), Jan Neruda (1834), Cosmas of Prague (1045), and Alfred Kubin (1877). After him are Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1830), Otfried Preußler (1923), Petr Ginz (1928), Martin of Opava (1300), Egon Kisch (1885), and Ivan Klíma (1931).

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