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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 2,919,755 page views. His biography is available in 85 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 82 in 2019). Rainer Maria Rilke is the 96th most popular writer (up from 105th in 2019), the 11th most popular biography from Czechia and the 2nd most popular Czech Writer.

Rainer Maria Rilke is most famous for his poetry.

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  • 85

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 10.64

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  • 3.65

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Rainer Maria Rilke ranks 96 out of 5,755Before him are Maurice Maeterlinck, Lewis Carroll, Jean de La Fontaine, Knut Hamsun, George Bernard Shaw, and George Sand. After him are Ismail I, José Saramago, Theodor Herzl, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, André Gide, and Charles Bukowski.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1875, Rainer Maria Rilke ranks 4Before him are Carl Jung, Thomas Mann, and Maurice Ravel. After him are Albert Schweitzer, Ferdinand Porsche, Jeanne Calment, Gerd von Rundstedt, Ibn Saud, Syngman Rhee, Mileva Marić, and Aleister Crowley. Among people deceased in 1926, Rainer Maria Rilke ranks 4Before him are Claude Monet, Antoni Gaudí, and Mehmed VI. After him are Harry Houdini, Emperor Taishō, Rudolf Christoph Eucken, Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, Felix Dzerzhinsky, Camillo Golgi, Mary Cassatt, and Emil Kraepelin.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Rainer Maria Rilke ranks 11 out of 973Before him are Antonín Dvořák (1841), John Amos Comenius (1592), Oskar Schindler (1908), Bedřich Smetana (1824), Edmund Husserl (1859), and Milan Kundera (1929). After him are Václav Havel (1936), Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor (1316), Ferdinand Porsche (1875), Miloš Forman (1932), Alphonse Mucha (1860), and Karel Čapek (1890).

Among WRITERS In Czechia

Among writers born in Czechia, Rainer Maria Rilke ranks 2Before him are Milan Kundera (1929). After him are Václav Havel (1936), Karel Čapek (1890), Jaroslav Hašek (1883), Max Brod (1884), Bohumil Hrabal (1914), Milena Jesenská (1896), Franz Werfel (1890), Karl Kraus (1874), Jaroslav Seifert (1901), and Julius Fučík (1903).