WRITER

Kurd Lasswitz

1848 - 1910

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Kurd Lasswitz (German: Kurd Laßwitz; 20 April 1848 – 17 October 1910) was a German author, scientist, and philosopher. He has been called "the father of German science fiction". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Kurd Lasswitz has received more than 46,559 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Kurd Lasswitz is the 3,626th most popular writer (up from 3,650th in 2019), the 776th most popular biography from Poland (down from 751st in 2019) and the 88th most popular Polish Writer.

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  • 47k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 51.25

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.51

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.43

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Kurd Lasswitz ranks 3,626 out of 7,302. Before him are Vsevolod Ivanov, Charles Fort, Orientius, Ida Vitale, Nicholas Rémy, and Johannes Jørgensen. After him are Anthony Berkeley Cox, Bernhard Severin Ingemann, Faiz Ahmad Faiz, Vasco Pratolini, Hansa Jivraj Mehta, and Valentin Vodnik.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1848, Kurd Lasswitz ranks 78. Before him are Lilla Cabot Perry, Heinrich Hübschmann, Hubertine Auclert, Kamal-ol-molk, Maria Bernarda Bütler, and Eugène Simon. After him are Elia Millosevich, Ferdinand Mannlicher, Sándor Wekerle, Francis Davis Millet, Diederik Korteweg, and Ioan Slavici. Among people deceased in 1910, Kurd Lasswitz ranks 69. Before him are Tarabai Shinde, George Turner, Friedrich Daniel von Recklinghausen, Gustav Adolf von Götzen, Knut Ångström, and Giovanni Passannante. After him are Julien Dupré, Laza Kostić, Andrea Costa, Fredrik von Otter, Édouard Colonne, and Vera Komissarzhevskaya.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Kurd Lasswitz ranks 776 out of 1,694. Before him are Jan Kiepura (1902), Rudolph Maté (1898), Edward Osóbka-Morawski (1909), Sam Warner (1887), Marcin Kromer (1512), and Marlene Schmidt (1937). After him are Haroun Tazieff (1914), Władysław Grabski (1874), Olga Desmond (1890), Zenon Grocholewski (1939), Karol Borsuk (1905), and Arnold Mendelssohn (1855).

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Among WRITERS In Poland

Among writers born in Poland, Kurd Lasswitz ranks 88. Before him are Salomėja Nėris (1904), Willibald Alexis (1798), Marcin Bielski (1495), Martin Gray (1922), Rutka Laskier (1929), and Marcin Kromer (1512). After him are Duchess Agnes of Württemberg (1835), Tadeusz Konwicki (1926), Zofia Kossak-Szczucka (1889), Jędrzej Śniadecki (1768), Zofia Nałkowska (1884), and Gustaw Herling-Grudziński (1919).

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