1894 - 1939
Joseph Roth, born Moses Joseph Roth (2 September 1894 – 27 May 1939), was an Austrian journalist and novelist, best known for his family saga Radetzky March (1932), about the decline and fall of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, his novel of Jewish life Job (1930) and his seminal essay "Juden auf Wanderschaft" (1927; translated into English in The Wandering Jews), a fragmented account of the Jewish migrations from eastern to western Europe in the aftermath of World War I and the Russian Revolution. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Joseph Roth has received more than 286,749 page views. His biography is available in 44 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 40 in 2019). Joseph Roth is the 370th most popular writer (up from 393rd in 2019), the 38th most popular biography from Ukraine (up from 44th in 2019) and the 10th most popular Ukrainian Writer.
Joseph Roth was a German novelist who is most famous for his novel "The Radetzky March."
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Among writers, Joseph Roth ranks 370 out of 5,794. Before him are Jacques Prévert, Shams Tabrizi, Alphonse de Lamartine, Mikhail Sholokhov, John Galsworthy, and Heinrich Mann. After him are Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet, Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Jorge Amado, Auguste Escoffier, Paul Auster, and Richard Bach.
1900 - 1977
HPI: 76.14
Rank: 364
1185 - 1248
HPI: 76.14
Rank: 365
1790 - 1869
HPI: 76.11
Rank: 366
1905 - 1984
HPI: 76.10
Rank: 367
1867 - 1933
HPI: 76.10
Rank: 368
1871 - 1950
HPI: 76.08
Rank: 369
1894 - 1939
HPI: 76.06
Rank: 370
1627 - 1704
HPI: 76.03
Rank: 371
1892 - 1927
HPI: 76.02
Rank: 372
1912 - 2001
HPI: 76.01
Rank: 373
1847 - 1935
HPI: 76.00
Rank: 374
1947 - Present
HPI: 75.98
Rank: 375
1936 - Present
HPI: 75.98
Rank: 376
Among people born in 1894, Joseph Roth ranks 14. Before him are Georges Lemaître, Boris III of Bulgaria, Jean Renoir, Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi, Norbert Wiener, and John Ford. After him are Harold Macmillan, Fritz Sauckel, Alfred Kinsey, Gala Dalí, Moshe Sharett, and Dietrich von Choltitz. Among people deceased in 1939, Joseph Roth ranks 8. Before him are Pope Pius XI, Howard Carter, James Naismith, Nadezhda Krupskaya, Alphonse Mucha, and W. B. Yeats. After him are Eugen Bleuler, Werner von Fritsch, Anton Makarenko, Douglas Fairbanks, Edward Sapir, and Karl Radek.
1894 - 1966
HPI: 78.33
Rank: 8
1894 - 1943
HPI: 78.03
Rank: 9
1894 - 1979
HPI: 77.17
Rank: 10
1894 - 1972
HPI: 77.06
Rank: 11
1894 - 1964
HPI: 76.79
Rank: 12
1894 - 1973
HPI: 76.55
Rank: 13
1894 - 1939
HPI: 76.06
Rank: 14
1894 - 1986
HPI: 75.96
Rank: 15
1894 - 1946
HPI: 75.89
Rank: 16
1894 - 1956
HPI: 75.06
Rank: 17
1894 - 1982
HPI: 74.58
Rank: 18
1894 - 1965
HPI: 74.11
Rank: 19
1894 - 1966
HPI: 73.86
Rank: 20
1857 - 1939
HPI: 83.61
Rank: 2
1874 - 1939
HPI: 78.51
Rank: 3
1861 - 1939
HPI: 77.80
Rank: 4
1869 - 1939
HPI: 76.97
Rank: 5
1860 - 1939
HPI: 76.76
Rank: 6
1865 - 1939
HPI: 76.22
Rank: 7
1894 - 1939
HPI: 76.06
Rank: 8
1857 - 1939
HPI: 75.26
Rank: 9
1880 - 1939
HPI: 74.14
Rank: 10
1888 - 1939
HPI: 73.75
Rank: 11
1883 - 1939
HPI: 73.54
Rank: 12
1884 - 1939
HPI: 73.38
Rank: 13
1885 - 1939
HPI: 72.87
Rank: 14
Among people born in Ukraine, Joseph Roth ranks 38 out of 913. Before him are Stepan Bandera (1909), Nestor Makhno (1888), Igor Sikorsky (1889), Sholem Aleichem (1859), George Gamow (1904), and Grigory Zinoviev (1883). After him are Andrei Zhdanov (1896), Viktor Yanukovych (1950), Simon Wiesenthal (1908), Sviatoslav Richter (1915), Ilya Ehrenburg (1891), and Ivan Mazepa (1639).
1909 - 1959
HPI: 76.46
Rank: 32
1888 - 1934
HPI: 76.37
Rank: 33
1889 - 1972
HPI: 76.29
Rank: 34
1859 - 1916
HPI: 76.29
Rank: 35
1904 - 1968
HPI: 76.28
Rank: 36
1883 - 1936
HPI: 76.09
Rank: 37
1894 - 1939
HPI: 76.06
Rank: 38
1896 - 1948
HPI: 75.74
Rank: 39
1950 - Present
HPI: 75.60
Rank: 40
1908 - 2005
HPI: 75.56
Rank: 41
1915 - 1997
HPI: 75.13
Rank: 42
1891 - 1967
HPI: 74.92
Rank: 43
1639 - 1709
HPI: 74.75
Rank: 44
Among writers born in Ukraine, Joseph Roth ranks 10. Before him are Svetlana Alexievich (1948), Anna Akhmatova (1889), Taras Shevchenko (1814), Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (1836), Shmuel Yosef Agnon (1888), and Sholem Aleichem (1859). After him are Ilya Ehrenburg (1891), Vasily Grossman (1905), Isaac Babel (1894), Anton Makarenko (1888), Ze'ev Jabotinsky (1880), and Irène Némirovsky (1903).
1948 - Present
HPI: 78.24
Rank: 4
1889 - 1966
HPI: 77.89
Rank: 5
1814 - 1861
HPI: 77.58
Rank: 6
1836 - 1895
HPI: 77.32
Rank: 7
1888 - 1970
HPI: 76.65
Rank: 8
1859 - 1916
HPI: 76.29
Rank: 9
1894 - 1939
HPI: 76.06
Rank: 10
1891 - 1967
HPI: 74.92
Rank: 11
1905 - 1964
HPI: 74.30
Rank: 12
1894 - 1940
HPI: 73.83
Rank: 13
1888 - 1939
HPI: 73.75
Rank: 14
1880 - 1940
HPI: 72.91
Rank: 15
1903 - 1942
HPI: 72.66
Rank: 16