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René Wellek

1903 - 1995

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René Wellek (August 22, 1903 – November 10, 1995) was a Czech-American comparative literary critic. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of René Wellek has received more than 99,959 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). René Wellek is the 4,231st most popular writer (down from 3,521st in 2019), the 745th most popular biography from Austria (down from 650th in 2019) and the 56th most popular Austrian Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, René Wellek ranks 4,231 out of 5,755Before him are Vincenzo Monti, Vladimir Gilyarovsky, Jean-Richard Bloch, Vera Panova, Oksana Zabuzhko, and Christiane Amanpour. After him are William Gibson, Tracy Chevalier, Lucrezia Marinella, Gabriello Chiabrera, Taslima Nasrin, and MacKenzie Scott.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1903, René Wellek ranks 212Before him are Alan Paton, Mary Norton, Pierre Brossolette, Curly Howard, Guillermo Saavedra, and Germán Busch. After him are Jaipal Singh Munda, Jan de Klerk, Jean Cavaillès, Dean Jagger, Jean Tardieu, and O. E. Hasse. Among people deceased in 1995, René Wellek ranks 189Before him are Severino Varela, Peter Grant, Francesco Camusso, Mary Wickes, István Bárány, and Agustín Gaínza. After him are Peter van de Kamp, Matti Pellonpää, Jean Tardieu, Rick Aviles, Carlo Ceresoli, and Genrikh Kasparyan.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, René Wellek ranks 745 out of 1,237Before him are Albert Ehrenstein (1886), Rudolf Krčil (1906), Wilhelm Hahnemann (1914), Peter Stöger (1966), Max Merkel (1918), and Karl Sesta (1906). After him are Christian Schwarz-Schilling (1930), Franz Steindachner (1834), Herma Bauma (1915), Fritz Wotruba (1907), Ursula Ledóchowska (1865), and Alexander Wurz (1974).

Among WRITERS In Austria

Among writers born in Austria, René Wellek ranks 56Before him are Lajos Bíró (1880), Ludwig Anzengruber (1839), Michael Denis (1729), Berta Zuckerkandl (1864), Alexander Lernet-Holenia (1897), and Albert Ehrenstein (1886). After him are H. C. Artmann (1921), Rosa Mayreder (1858), Robert Menasse (1954), André Heller (1947), Eva Ibbotson (1925), and Thomas Brezina (1963).