1824 - 1882
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 98,470 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Karl-Maria Kertbeny is the 1,529th most popular writer (down from 1,499th in 2019), the 377th most popular biography from Austria (down from 353rd in 2019) and the 29th most popular Austrian Writer.
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Among writers, Karl-Maria Kertbeny ranks 1,529 out of 5,755. Before him are Anne Desclos, Ghassan Kanafani, Péter Nádas, P. D. James, Deepak Chopra, and Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq. After him are Jan Guillou, Elizabeth George, Ole Nydahl, Hellanicus of Lesbos, Anna de Noailles, and Väinö Linna.
1907 - 1998
HPI: 57.46
Rank: 1,523
1936 - 1972
HPI: 57.46
Rank: 1,524
1942 - Present
HPI: 57.46
Rank: 1,525
1920 - 2014
HPI: 57.45
Rank: 1,526
1946 - Present
HPI: 57.45
Rank: 1,527
1522 - 1592
HPI: 57.45
Rank: 1,528
1824 - 1882
HPI: 57.45
Rank: 1,529
1944 - Present
HPI: 57.44
Rank: 1,530
1949 - Present
HPI: 57.43
Rank: 1,531
1941 - Present
HPI: 57.43
Rank: 1,532
490 BC - 405 BC
HPI: 57.42
Rank: 1,533
1876 - 1933
HPI: 57.42
Rank: 1,534
1920 - 1992
HPI: 57.40
Rank: 1,535
Among people born in 1824, Karl-Maria Kertbeny ranks 20. Before him are Stonewall Jackson, Carl Reinecke, Dayananda Saraswati, William Huggins, William Walker, and Princess Sophie of the Netherlands. After him are Tokugawa Iesada, Ludwig Büchner, Johann Wilhelm Hittorf, Nana Sahib, Leland Stanford, and Princess Francisca of Brazil. Among people deceased in 1882, Karl-Maria Kertbeny ranks 26. Before him are Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Henri Giffard, Ignacy Łukasiewicz, Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald, Pierre Guillaume Frédéric le Play, and Mikhail Skobelev. After him are Anthony Trollope, Thomas Hill Green, Henry Draper, Joachim Raff, Princess Marie of Waldeck and Pyrmont, and Alfred Escher.
1824 - 1863
HPI: 60.60
Rank: 14
1824 - 1910
HPI: 60.36
Rank: 15
1824 - 1883
HPI: 60.06
Rank: 16
1824 - 1910
HPI: 59.78
Rank: 17
1824 - 1860
HPI: 59.00
Rank: 18
1824 - 1897
HPI: 57.78
Rank: 19
1824 - 1882
HPI: 57.45
Rank: 20
1824 - 1858
HPI: 57.42
Rank: 21
1824 - 1899
HPI: 57.37
Rank: 22
1824 - 1914
HPI: 57.20
Rank: 23
1824 - 1859
HPI: 57.04
Rank: 24
1824 - 1893
HPI: 57.01
Rank: 25
1824 - 1898
HPI: 56.91
Rank: 26
1807 - 1882
HPI: 59.18
Rank: 20
1825 - 1882
HPI: 58.45
Rank: 21
1822 - 1882
HPI: 58.41
Rank: 22
1803 - 1882
HPI: 58.05
Rank: 23
1806 - 1882
HPI: 58.00
Rank: 24
1843 - 1882
HPI: 57.53
Rank: 25
1824 - 1882
HPI: 57.45
Rank: 26
1815 - 1882
HPI: 55.90
Rank: 27
1836 - 1882
HPI: 55.72
Rank: 28
1837 - 1882
HPI: 55.54
Rank: 29
1822 - 1882
HPI: 55.45
Rank: 30
1857 - 1882
HPI: 55.43
Rank: 31
1819 - 1882
HPI: 55.24
Rank: 32
Among people born in Austria, Karl-Maria Kertbeny ranks 377 out of 1,237. Before him are Archduchess Louise of Austria (1870), Georg Luger (1849), Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller (1793), Franz Jägerstätter (1907), Duarte Nuno, Duke of Braganza (1907), and Max Adler (1873). After him are Agnes of Austria (1281), Maria Schicklgruber (1795), Viktor Schauberger (1885), Eduard Roschmann (1908), Peter Fendi (1796), and Oscar Straus (1870).
1870 - 1947
HPI: 57.62
Rank: 371
1849 - 1923
HPI: 57.55
Rank: 372
1793 - 1865
HPI: 57.54
Rank: 373
1907 - 1943
HPI: 57.48
Rank: 374
1907 - 1976
HPI: 57.46
Rank: 375
1873 - 1937
HPI: 57.46
Rank: 376
1824 - 1882
HPI: 57.45
Rank: 377
1281 - 1364
HPI: 57.43
Rank: 378
1795 - 1847
HPI: 57.42
Rank: 379
1885 - 1958
HPI: 57.41
Rank: 380
1908 - 1977
HPI: 57.40
Rank: 381
1796 - 1842
HPI: 57.36
Rank: 382
1870 - 1954
HPI: 57.34
Rank: 383
Among writers born in Austria, Karl-Maria Kertbeny ranks 29. Before him are Franz Grillparzer (1791), August Kubizek (1888), Eva Schloss (1929), Joseph Mohr (1792), Peter Altenberg (1859), and Christine Nöstlinger (1936). After him are Raul Hilberg (1926), Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall (1774), Ida Laura Pfeiffer (1797), Vicki Baum (1888), Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić (1874), and Hermann Bahr (1863).
1791 - 1872
HPI: 60.98
Rank: 23
1888 - 1956
HPI: 60.36
Rank: 24
1929 - Present
HPI: 58.34
Rank: 25
1792 - 1848
HPI: 57.90
Rank: 26
1859 - 1919
HPI: 57.89
Rank: 27
1936 - 2018
HPI: 57.85
Rank: 28
1824 - 1882
HPI: 57.45
Rank: 29
1926 - 2007
HPI: 56.88
Rank: 30
1774 - 1856
HPI: 56.75
Rank: 31
1797 - 1858
HPI: 56.65
Rank: 32
1888 - 1960
HPI: 56.64
Rank: 33
1874 - 1938
HPI: 56.39
Rank: 34
1863 - 1934
HPI: 55.78
Rank: 35