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Leonhard Frank

1882 - 1961

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Leonhard Frank (4 September 1882 in Würzburg – 18 August 1961 in Munich) was a German expressionist writer. He studied painting and graphic art in Munich, and gained acclaim with his first novel The Robber Band (1914, tr. 1928). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Leonhard Frank has received more than 44,548 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia. Leonhard Frank is the 3,583rd most popular writer (up from 3,878th in 2019), the 3,659th most popular biography from Germany (up from 3,661st in 2019) and the 218th most popular German Writer.

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    Languages Editions (L)

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    Effective Languages (L*)

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    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Leonhard Frank ranks 3,583 out of 7,302. Before him are Louis Pergaud, Antonio Palomino, Ćamil Sijarić, Nikephoros Kallistos Xanthopoulos, Yusuf Idris, and Xanthus. After him are Gunter d'Alquen, Françoise d'Eaubonne, Ishaq ibn Hunayn, I. A. Richards, Aphthonius of Antioch, and Paavo Haavikko.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1882, Leonhard Frank ranks 156. Before him are Pascual Orozco, Henri Anspach, Ernst Weiss, Robert Kerr, Louis Pergaud, and Simon Vratsian. After him are Joseph Marx, James Somerville, Hendrik Willem van Loon, Oldřich Duras, George Bellows, and Jenő Fuchs. Among people deceased in 1961, Leonhard Frank ranks 101. Before him are H.D., Alexander Goldenweiser, Max Weber, Ben Adams, Maurice Tourneur, and Govind Ballabh Pant. After him are Mazo de la Roche, Morris Travers, Walter Bedell Smith, Kateryna Bilokur, Susanna M. Salter, and Ruth Fischer.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Leonhard Frank ranks 3,659 out of 7,253. Before him are Reinhard Mey (1942), Albert Ballin (1857), Frederick VI, Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg (1769), Wilhelm von Bode (1845), Henry, Duke of Saxe-Römhild (1650), and Bernhard Klodt (1926). After him are Gunter d'Alquen (1910), Konrad von Erlichshausen (1390), Reinhard Libuda (1943), Count Johann Hartwig Ernst von Bernstorff (1712), Gustav Knuth (1901), and Jean Dufresne (1829).

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Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Leonhard Frank ranks 218. Before him are Herman Grimm (1828), Sophie von La Roche (1730), Johann Ernst Glück (1652), Jurij Brězan (1916), Justus Jonas (1493), and Theodor Körner (1791). After him are Gunter d'Alquen (1910), Günter Eich (1907), Johann Heinrich Voss (1751), Sylvia Nasar (1947), Robert Jungk (1913), and Glückel of Hameln (1646).

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