WRITER

Lion Feuchtwanger

1884 - 1958

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Lion Feuchtwanger (German: [ˈliːɔn ˈfɔʏçtˌvaŋɐ] ; 7 July 1884 – 21 December 1958) was a German Jewish novelist and playwright. A prominent figure in the literary world of Weimar Germany, he influenced contemporaries including playwright Bertolt Brecht. Feuchtwanger's Judaism and fierce criticism of the Nazi Party, years before it assumed power, ensured that he would be a target of government-sponsored persecution after Adolf Hitler's appointment as chancellor of Germany in January 1933. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Lion Feuchtwanger has received more than 391,674 page views. His biography is available in 46 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 44 in 2019). Lion Feuchtwanger is the 600th most popular writer (down from 566th in 2019), the 565th most popular biography from Germany (down from 545th in 2019) and the 31st most popular German Writer.

Lion Feuchtwanger is most famous for his novel, Jud Suss, which is a fictionalized account of the life of Joseph Süss Oppenheimer.

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  • 390k

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  • 65.58

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  • 46

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.66

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.08

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Erfolg
1930
Goya oder Der arge Weg der Erkenntnis
1951
Der falsche Nero
1936
Jew Süss
1900
Die Geschwister Oppermann
1933
Jud Süss
1925

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Lion Feuchtwanger ranks 600 out of 7,302. Before him are Ismail Gaspirali, Theodore Dreiser, John Donne, Madame de La Fayette, Hermann Broch, and Napoleon Hill. After him are Karl Kraus, Judah Halevi, Pierre Loti, Dimitrie Cantemir, Erich Kästner, and Hugo von Hofmannsthal.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1884, Lion Feuchtwanger ranks 27. Before him are Otto Fritz Meyerhof, Yevgeny Zamyatin, Theodor Svedberg, Auguste Piccard, Vincent Auriol, and Walther von Reichenau. After him are Emil Jannings, Rajendra Prasad, Edward Sapir, Rudolf Bultmann, Leo Frank, and Max Beckmann. Among people deceased in 1958, Lion Feuchtwanger ranks 16. Before him are Kurt Alder, Faisal II of Iraq, Milutin Milanković, Juan Ramón Jiménez, Rudolf von Laban, and Maurice de Vlaminck. After him are Maurice Gamelin, G. E. Moore, Georges Rouault, Giacomo Balla, Abul Kalam Azad, and Ernst Heinkel.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Lion Feuchtwanger ranks 565 out of 7,253. Before him are Albert the Bear (1100), Albert, King of Sweden (1340), Wilhelm Mohnke (1911), Johann Georg Faust (1480), Gerd Binnig (1947), and Hans von Seeckt (1866). After him are Otto Carius (1922), Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi (1743), Johannes Rau (1931), Franz Boas (1858), Erich Kästner (1899), and Cunigunde of Luxembourg (978).

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Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Lion Feuchtwanger ranks 31. Before him are Heinrich Mann (1871), Wolfram von Eschenbach (1170), Traudl Junge (1920), Jean Paul (1763), Patrick Süskind (1949), and Klaus Mann (1906). After him are Erich Kästner (1899), Elisabeth of Wied (1843), Dietrich Eckart (1868), Bert Hellinger (1925), August Wilhelm Schlegel (1767), and Ludwig Tieck (1773).

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