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Karel Čapek

1890 - 1938

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Karel Čapek (Czech: [ˈkarɛl ˈtʃapɛk] ; 9 January 1890 – 25 December 1938) was a Czech writer, playwright, critic and journalist. He has become best known for his science fiction, including his novel War with the Newts (1936) and play R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots, 1920), which introduced the word robot. He also wrote many politically charged works dealing with the social turmoil of his time. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Karel Čapek has received more than 941,024 page views. His biography is available in 75 different languages on Wikipedia. Karel Čapek is the 173rd most popular writer (up from 206th in 2019), the 17th most popular biography from Czechia (up from 19th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Czech Writer.

Karel Čapek is most famous for his play, "R.U.R." which introduced the word "robot" to the English language.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Karel Čapek ranks 173 out of 5,755Before him are Ivan Turgenev, Anacreon, Frank Herbert, Janusz Korczak, Stanisław Lem, and Abu Nuwas. After him are J. D. Salinger, Petronius, Lope de Vega, Diogenes Laërtius, Dale Carnegie, and Constantine VII.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1890, Karel Čapek ranks 10Before him are Dwight D. Eisenhower, Vyacheslav Molotov, Boris Pasternak, Friedrich Paulus, H. P. Lovecraft, and Egon Schiele. After him are Alfred Jodl, Kurt Lewin, Fritz Lang, Colonel Sanders, Stan Laurel, and George II of Greece. Among people deceased in 1938, Karel Čapek ranks 5Before him are Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, Edmund Husserl, Kanō Jigorō, and Georges Méliès. After him are Konstantin Stanislavski, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Béla Kun, Nikolai Bukharin, Karl Kautsky, Faustina Kowalska, and Charles Édouard Guillaume.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Karel Čapek ranks 17 out of 973Before him are Rainer Maria Rilke (1875), Václav Havel (1936), Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor (1316), Ferdinand Porsche (1875), Miloš Forman (1932), and Alphonse Mucha (1860). After him are John of Nepomuk (1350), Joseph Schumpeter (1883), Ernst Mach (1838), Albrecht von Wallenstein (1583), Wilhelm Steinitz (1836), and Arthur Seyss-Inquart (1892).

Among WRITERS In Czechia

Among writers born in Czechia, Karel Čapek ranks 4Before him are Milan Kundera (1929), Rainer Maria Rilke (1875), and Václav Havel (1936). After him are Jaroslav Hašek (1883), Max Brod (1884), Bohumil Hrabal (1914), Milena Jesenská (1896), Franz Werfel (1890), Karl Kraus (1874), Jaroslav Seifert (1901), and Julius Fučík (1903).