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Julius Fučík

1903 - 1943

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Julius Fučík (Czech: [ˈjulɪjus ˈfutʃiːk]) (23 February 1903 – 8 September 1943) was a Czech journalist, critic, writer, and active member of Communist Party of Czechoslovakia. For his part at the forefront of the anti-Nazi resistance during the Second World War, he was imprisoned and tortured by the Gestapo in Prague, and executed in Berlin. While in prison, Fučík recorded his interrogation experiences on small pieces of paper, which were smuggled out and published after the war as Notes from the Gallows. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Julius Fučík has received more than 20,793 page views. His biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 36 in 2019). Julius Fučík is the 725th most popular writer (up from 865th in 2019), the 83rd most popular biography from Czechia (up from 89th in 2019) and the 12th most popular Czech Writer.

Julius Fučík was a Czechoslovakian spy during WWII. He was captured by the Gestapo and executed in 1942.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Julius Fučík ranks 725 out of 5,755Before him are Phillis Wheatley, Mahmoud Darwish, Kang Youwei, Tatian, Antonio Machado, and Raymond Carver. After him are Alexander Griboyedov, Epicharmus of Kos, A. J. Cronin, Marie Mancini, Alexander Litvinenko, and Kōbō Abe.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1903, Julius Fučík ranks 42Before him are Matthias Sindelar, Igor Kurchatov, Eliot Ness, Tunku Abdul Rahman, George Beadle, and Georg Elser. After him are Lars Onsager, Empress Kōjun, Andrei Grechko, Jiro Horikoshi, Claudio Arrau, and Tamam Shud case. Among people deceased in 1943, Julius Fučík ranks 23Before him are Alexandre Millerand, Max Wertheimer, Władysław Sikorski, Chaim Soutine, Alexandre Yersin, and Jean Moulin. After him are Leslie Howard, Luz Long, Lydia Litvyak, Maurice Denis, Viktor Lutze, and Infanta Maria Josepha of Portugal.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Julius Fučík ranks 83 out of 973Before him are Carl Ferdinand Cori (1896), Johann Stamitz (1717), Ludmila of Bohemia (860), Bohuslav Martinů (1890), Johann Palisa (1848), and Jiří Menzel (1938). After him are Maria Christina of Austria (1858), Josef Hoffmann (1870), Eugen Böhm von Bawerk (1851), Ottokar I of Bohemia (1155), Archduchess Anna of Austria (1528), and Antonín Novotný (1904).

Among WRITERS In Czechia

Among writers born in Czechia, Julius Fučík ranks 12Before him are Max Brod (1884), Bohumil Hrabal (1914), Milena Jesenská (1896), Franz Werfel (1890), Karl Kraus (1874), and Jaroslav Seifert (1901). After him are Adalbert Stifter (1805), Jan Neruda (1834), Cosmas of Prague (1045), Alfred Kubin (1877), Josef Čapek (1887), and Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1830).