WRITER

Rosa Mayreder

1858 - 1938

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Rosa Mayreder (née Obermeyer; 30 November 1858, in Vienna – 19 January 1938, in Vienna) was an Austrian freethinker, author, painter, musician and feminist. She was the daughter of Marie and Franz Arnold Obermayer who was a wealthy restaurant operator and barkeeper. Rosa had twelve brothers and sisters and although her conservative father did not believe in the formal education of girls he allowed her to participate in the Greek and Latin lessons of one of her brothers. She also received private instruction in French, painting and the piano. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Rosa Mayreder has received more than 33,597 page views. Her biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Rosa Mayreder is the 4,735th most popular writer (up from 4,799th in 2019), the 844th most popular biography from Austria (down from 823rd in 2019) and the 65th most popular Austrian Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Rosa Mayreder ranks 4,735 out of 7,302Before her are William Tenn, Brian Lumley, Robert Menasse, Andrei Bitov, Elizabeth Jane Howard, and Michel-Jean Sedaine. After her are Damon Knight, Hedwig Courths-Mahler, Aaron Sorkin, E. L. James, Hanna Krall, and Jean Cau.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1858, Rosa Mayreder ranks 112Before her are Yukio Ozaki, Gerard De Geer, Henry Scott Tuke, Eva Nansen, Take Ionescu, and Carlo Luigi Spegazzini. After her are Juan Luis Sanfuentes, Frederick Lugard, 1st Baron Lugard, Charles Hardinge, 1st Baron Hardinge of Penshurst, John Russell, Sara Adler, and Joseph Thomson. Among people deceased in 1938, Rosa Mayreder ranks 172Before her are Millosh Gjergj Nikolla, Steve Bloomer, Choʻlpon, Jørgen-Frantz Jacobsen, Periklis Pierrakos-Mavromichalis, and Lev Schnirelmann. After her are Phyllis Allen, José Luis Tejada Sorzano, Víctor Morales, Heinrich Held, Isaak Zelensky, and Miguel Fleta.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Rosa Mayreder ranks 844 out of 1,424Before her are Franz Brunner (1913), La Jana (1905), Ignaz Schiffermüller (1727), Alexander Wurz (1974), Franz Wagner (1911), and Robert Menasse (1954). After her are Rudolf Raftl (1911), O. W. Fischer (1915), Egon Zimmermann (1939), Hans Walzhofer (1906), Heinrich Schiff (1951), and Dieter Quester (1939).

Among WRITERS In Austria

Among writers born in Austria, Rosa Mayreder ranks 65Before her are Richard Beer-Hofmann (1866), Herbert W. Franke (1927), Géza Csáth (1887), Ava (1060), H. C. Artmann (1921), and Robert Menasse (1954). After her are Ruth Maier (1920), Ruth Klüger (1931), André Heller (1947), Ferdinand von Saar (1833), Eva Ibbotson (1925), and Christoph Ransmayr (1954).