WRITER

Rainer Maria Rilke

1875 - 1926

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René Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke (4 December 1875 – 29 December 1926), known as Rainer Maria Rilke (German: [ˈʁaɪnɐ maˈʁiːa ˈʁɪlkə] ), was an Austrian poet and novelist. Acclaimed as an idiosyncratic and expressive poet, he is widely recognized as a significant writer in the German language. His work is viewed by critics and scholars as possessing undertones of mysticism, exploring themes of subjective experience and disbelief. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Rainer Maria Rilke has received more than 3,135,234 page views. His biography is available in 85 different languages on Wikipedia. Rainer Maria Rilke is the 79th most popular writer (up from 96th in 2019), the 10th most popular biography from Czechia (up from 11th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Czech Writer.

Rainer Maria Rilke is most famous for his poetry.

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Notable Works

Briefe an einen jungen Dichter
1929
Poems
German poetry
1900
Auguste Rodin
1907
Sonette an Orpheus
1936

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Rainer Maria Rilke ranks 79 out of 7,302. Before him are Robert Frost, Theodor Herzl, Jorge Luis Borges, Václav Havel, Arthur Rimbaud, and Maxim Gorky. After him are Hesiod, Henrik Ibsen, François Rabelais, Miyamoto Musashi, Isaac Asimov, and Daniel Defoe.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1875, Rainer Maria Rilke ranks 3. Before him are Thomas Mann, and Carl Jung. After him are Maurice Ravel, Albert Schweitzer, Ibn Saud, Ferdinand Porsche, Mileva Marić, Syngman Rhee, Gerd von Rundstedt, Jeanne Calment, and Albert I of Belgium. Among people deceased in 1926, Rainer Maria Rilke ranks 3. Before him are Claude Monet, and Antoni Gaudí. After him are Mehmed VI, Harry Houdini, Emperor Taishō, Rudolf Christoph Eucken, Mary Cassatt, Felix Dzerzhinsky, Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, Camillo Golgi, and Sunjong of Korea.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Rainer Maria Rilke ranks 10 out of 1,200. Before him are Antonín Dvořák (1841), Gustav Mahler (1860), Jan Hus (1369), John Amos Comenius (1592), Milan Kundera (1929), and Václav Havel (1936). After him are Oskar Schindler (1908), Bedřich Smetana (1824), Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor (1316), Edmund Husserl (1859), Jan Žižka (1360), and Alphonse Mucha (1860).

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Among WRITERS In Czechia

Among writers born in Czechia, Rainer Maria Rilke ranks 4. Before him are Franz Kafka (1883), Milan Kundera (1929), and Václav Havel (1936). After him are Karel Čapek (1890), Jaroslav Hašek (1883), Max Brod (1884), Milena Jesenská (1896), Bohumil Hrabal (1914), Franz Werfel (1890), Jaroslav Seifert (1901), and Karl Kraus (1874).

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