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Max Brod

1884 - 1968

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Max Brod (Hebrew: מקס ברוד; 27 May 1884 – 20 December 1968) was a Bohemian-born Israeli author, composer, and journalist. Although he was a prolific writer in his own right, he is best remembered as the friend and biographer of writer Franz Kafka. Kafka named Brod as his literary executor, instructing Brod to burn his unpublished work upon his death. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Max Brod has received more than 434,557 page views. His biography is available in 52 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 50 in 2019). Max Brod is the 347th most popular writer (up from 351st in 2019), the 41st most popular biography from Czechia (down from 37th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Czech Writer.

Max Brod is most famous for being the friend and biographer of Franz Kafka.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 52

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 11.07

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.70

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Max Brod ranks 347 out of 7,302. Before him are Doris Lessing, Arthur Schnitzler, Luqman, Henry Miller, Marguerite Yourcenar, and Apollonius of Rhodes. After him are Karl May, Ezra Pound, Joseph Brodsky, Ken Follett, Louise Glück, and Yunus Emre.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1884, Max Brod ranks 12. Before him are İsmet İnönü, Hideki Tojo, Bronisław Malinowski, Casimir Funk, Édouard Daladier, and Anton Drexler. After him are Theodor Heuss, Franz Halder, Peter Debye, Charles Edward, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Friedrich Bergius, and Gaston Bachelard. Among people deceased in 1968, Max Brod ranks 13. Before him are Padre Pio, John Steinbeck, Lev Landau, Konstantin Rokossovsky, Robert F. Kennedy, and Trygve Lie. After him are George Gamow, Karl Barth, Salvatore Quasimodo, Georg von Küchler, Erwin Panofsky, and Henry Hallett Dale.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Max Brod ranks 41 out of 1,200. Before him are Ottokar II of Bohemia (1233), Jan Palach (1948), Miloš Zeman (1944), Klement Gottwald (1896), Karl Kautsky (1854), and Emil Zátopek (1922). After him are Wenceslaus I, Duke of Bohemia (907), Bernard Bolzano (1781), Adolf Loos (1870), Madeleine Albright (1937), Wenceslaus III of Bohemia (1289), and Ludvík Svoboda (1895).

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Among WRITERS In Czechia

Among writers born in Czechia, Max Brod ranks 7. Before him are Franz Kafka (1883), Milan Kundera (1929), Václav Havel (1936), Rainer Maria Rilke (1875), Karel Čapek (1890), and Jaroslav Hašek (1883). After him are Milena Jesenská (1896), Bohumil Hrabal (1914), Franz Werfel (1890), Jaroslav Seifert (1901), Karl Kraus (1874), and Julius Fučík (1903).

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