WRITER

Karl-Maria Kertbeny

1824 - 1882

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Károly Mária Kertbeny (born Karl Maria Benkert; 28 February 1824 – 23 January 1882) was a Hungarian journalist, translator, memoirist and human rights campaigner. Kertbeny coined the words heterosexual and homosexual as the German nouns Heterosexual and Homosexual. He translated works by Hungarian poets and writers Sándor Petőfi, János Arany and Mór Jókai into German. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Karl-Maria Kertbeny has received more than 101,803 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia. Karl-Maria Kertbeny is the 1,756th most popular writer (down from 1,526th in 2019), the 422nd most popular biography from Austria (down from 377th in 2019) and the 30th most popular Austrian Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Karl-Maria Kertbeny ranks 1,756 out of 7,302Before him are Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz, Dorothy Parker, Li Yu, Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay, Alexandre Benois, and Princess Michael of Kent. After him are Notker the Stammerer, Richard Ford, Anne Perry, Suzanne Collins, Tavo Burat, and Friedrich Melchior, Baron von Grimm.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1824, Karl-Maria Kertbeny ranks 29Before him are Ludwig Büchner, Tokugawa Iesada, Kuno Fischer, Francesc Pi i Margall, Johann Wilhelm Hittorf, and Michael Madhusudan Dutt. After him are Leland Stanford, Peter Cornelius, Louis II, Grand Duke of Baden, Maria Beatrix of Austria-Este, George MacDonald, and Count Karl Sigmund von Hohenwart. Among people deceased in 1882, Karl-Maria Kertbeny ranks 27Before him are Henri Giffard, Mikhail Skobelev, Henry Draper, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Princess Maria Pia of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, and Pierre Guillaume Frédéric le Play. After him are Joachim Raff, Princess Marie of Waldeck and Pyrmont, Alfred Escher, Anthony Trollope, Estanislao Figueras, and Jørgen Moe.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Karl-Maria Kertbeny ranks 422 out of 1,424Before him are Hermann Nitsch (1938), Prince August of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1818), Jean Améry (1912), Irmfried Eberl (1910), Hans Ledwinka (1878), and Johann Nepomuk Karl, Prince of Liechtenstein (1724). After him are Princess Alexandra of Hanover (1882), Oscar Straus (1870), Johannes Schober (1874), Viktor Kaplan (1876), Willi Boskovsky (1909), and Ivan Šubašić (1892).

Among WRITERS In Austria

Among writers born in Austria, Karl-Maria Kertbeny ranks 30Before him are Ida Laura Pfeiffer (1797), Joseph Mohr (1792), Vicki Baum (1888), Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall (1774), Peter Altenberg (1859), and Hermann Bahr (1863). After him are Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić (1874), Eva Schloss (1929), Gitta Sereny (1921), Raul Hilberg (1926), Pauline von Metternich (1836), and Johann Nestroy (1801).