WRITER

Peter Rosegger

1843 - 1918

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Peter Rosegger (original Roßegger) (31 July 1843 – 26 June 1918) was an Austrian writer and poet from Krieglach in the province of Styria. He was a son of a mountain farmer and grew up in the woodlands and mountains of Alpl. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Peter Rosegger has received more than 68,459 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Peter Rosegger is the 3,689th most popular writer (up from 3,759th in 2019), the 708th most popular biography from Austria (down from 696th in 2019) and the 47th most popular Austrian Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 68k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 51.11

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 26

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.14

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.16

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Die Schriften des Waldschulmeisters
1886
I.N.R.I
Christian fiction, Prisoners, Religious life
1905
Erdsegen
1905
Peter Mayr, der Wirt an der Mahr
Fiction
1894
Alpensommer
Description and travel
1925
Die Försterbuben
1910

Page views of Peter Roseggers by language

Over the past year Peter Rosegger has had the most page views in the with 53,679 views, followed by English (7,123), and Russian (1,556). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Georgian (166.41%), Breton (128.04%), and Spanish (83.37%)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Peter Rosegger ranks 3,689 out of 7,302. Before him are Concepción Arenal, Wang Changling, Dmitry Grigorovich, Oksana Zabuzhko, Louise Penny, and Abbasgulu Bakikhanov. After him are Thomas Friedman, Robert Leckie, Johan Turi, Albert Aurier, Yevhen Hrebinka, and Coelius Sedulius.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1843, Peter Rosegger ranks 66. Before him are Frederick Abberline, Harald Høffding, Princess Augusta of Saxe-Meiningen, Adolf Mayer, Henri Regnault, and Friedrich Robert Helmert. After him are Gertrude Jekyll, Ernest Mason Satow, Louis Diémer, Gaston Tissandier, Otto Kuntze, and Paul Cambon. Among people deceased in 1918, Peter Rosegger ranks 116. Before him are Amadeo de Souza Cardoso, Malak Hifni Nasif, William Hope Hodgson, George Lawrence Price, Albert Ballin, and Robbie Ross. After him are Margit Kaffka, Ulisse Dini, Alexander Protopopov, Henry Adams, Princess Marie Anne of Saxe-Altenburg, and Eduard von Keyserling.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Peter Rosegger ranks 708 out of 1,424. Before him are Franz Josef Popp (1886), Josef Uridil (1895), Helene Engelmann (1898), Jacob Taubes (1923), Toto Wolff (1972), and Heinrich von Ferstel (1828). After him are Alfred Riedl (1949), Joseph Marx (1882), Sebastian Kurz (1986), Karl Schranz (1938), Johann von Herbeck (1831), and Gerda Lerner (1920).

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Among WRITERS In Austria

Among writers born in Austria, Peter Rosegger ranks 47. Before him are Dezső Kosztolányi (1885), Paula von Preradović (1887), Johannes Mario Simmel (1924), Erich Fried (1921), Nathan Birnbaum (1864), and Alfréd Wetzler (1918). After him are Ernst Jandl (1925), Friederike Mayröcker (1924), Ceija Stojka (1933), Ludwig Anzengruber (1839), Lajos Bíró (1880), and Michael Denis (1729).

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