WRITER

Rudolf Rocker

1873 - 1958

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Johann Rudolf Rocker (March 25, 1873 – September 19, 1958) was a German anarchist writer and activist. He was born in Mainz to an artisan family. His father died when he was a child, and his mother when he was in his teens, so he spent some time in an orphanage. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Rudolf Rocker has received more than 344,948 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Rudolf Rocker is the 2,012th most popular writer (up from 2,297th in 2019), the 2,148th most popular biography from Germany (up from 2,391st in 2019) and the 130th most popular German Writer.

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Notable Works

Die Entscheidung des Abendlandes
History, Civilization, Political science
1949
The London years
Anarchists, Jewish anarchists, Anarchism
1956
Anarcho-syndicalism
Syndicalism, Anarchism, Anarchism and anarchists
1938
Johann Most
Anarchists, Biography, Anarchism
1924
Anarcho-Syndicalism (Pluto Classics)
1998
Nationalismus und Kultur
Culture, Nationalism, Nationalism and nationality
1936
The London years
Anarchists, Jewish anarchists, Anarchism
1956
Johann Most
Anarchists, Biography, Anarchism
Über den biographischen Rahmen hinaus gibt Rocker einen fesselnden Einblick in die Entstehungs- und Frühgeschichte der anarchistischen Bewegung in Deutschland. Seine Arbeit, die im Einklang mit der Biographie Mosts auch eingehend auf die sozialistische, sozialrevolutionäre und anarchistische Bewegung zahlreicher anderer Länder eingeht, gehört neben den Werken Nettlaus zu den Standardwerken des deutschsprachigen Anarchismus.
1924
Anarcho-syndicalism
Syndicalism, Anarchism, Anarchism and anarchists
1938
Pioneers of American freedom
History, Radicalism, Liberalism
1949
Nationalismus und Kultur
Culture, Nationalism, Nationalism and nationality
**Nationalism and Culture** is a nonfiction book by German anarcho-syndicalist writer Rudolf Rocker. In this book, he criticizes religion, statism, nationalism, and centralism from an anarchist perspective. (Source: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nationalism_and_Culture))
1936
Anarchism and anarcho-syndicalism
Syndicalism, Anarchism
1973

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Rudolf Rocker ranks 2,012 out of 7,302. Before him are Saki, Caterina Albert, Izabela Czartoryska, S. Ansky, Christopher Isherwood, and Yuan Zhen. After him are Telesilla, Julien Gracq, Publius Clodius Thrasea Paetus, Matthieu Ricard, Sophron, and Richard Brautigan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1873, Rudolf Rocker ranks 69. Before him are Viktor Chernov, Moisei Uritsky, Elena Stasova, Valery Bryusov, Sidney Reilly, and Hasan Prishtina. After him are Sante Geronimo Caserio, Kyōka Izumi, Józef Haller, Félix d'Herelle, Margaret Bondfield, and Louis Feuillade. Among people deceased in 1958, Rudolf Rocker ranks 54. Before him are Florian Znaniecki, Mikhail Zoshchenko, Johnston McCulley, Ludwig Crüwell, Aarre Merikanto, and Roger Byrne. After him are Edward Weston, José Miaja, Princess Joséphine Caroline of Belgium, Claire Lee Chennault, Grigory Petrovsky, and Peter Collins.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Rudolf Rocker ranks 2,148 out of 7,253. Before him are Horst Hrubesch (1951), Igor Mitoraj (1944), Thomas C. Südhof (1955), Countess Caroline of Nassau-Saarbrücken (1704), Friedrich Ferdinand von Beust (1809), and Michael Lippert (1897). After him are Horst-Dieter Höttges (1943), John A. Roebling (1806), Jürgen Schult (1960), William Dieterle (1893), Dieter Müller (1954), and Princess Louise of Hesse-Darmstadt (1757).

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Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Rudolf Rocker ranks 130. Before him are Handrij Zejler (1804), Wolfgang Borchert (1921), Jordan of Saxony (1190), Margarete Buber-Neumann (1901), Hanns Heinz Ewers (1871), and Yehuda Amichai (1924). After him are Carl Zuckmayer (1896), Wilhelm Heinrich Wackenroder (1773), Joachim Neander (1650), Rahel Varnhagen (1771), Ludwig Uhland (1787), and Anton Praetorius (1560).

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