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Siegfried Kracauer

1889 - 1966

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Siegfried Kracauer (; German: [ˈkʁakaʊ̯ɐ]; February 8, 1889 – November 26, 1966) was a German writer, journalist, sociologist, cultural critic, and film theorist. He has sometimes been associated with the Frankfurt School of critical theory. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Siegfried Kracauer has received more than 282,776 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Siegfried Kracauer is the 1,325th most popular writer (down from 1,293rd in 2019), the 1,371st most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,270th in 2019) and the 86th most popular German Writer.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 28

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.77

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.35

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Siegfried Kracauer ranks 1,325 out of 5,755. Before him are Robert Sheckley, Hayim Nahman Bialik, Cees Nooteboom, Don DeLillo, Konstantin Simonov, and Xavier de Maistre. After him are Liang Qichao, Joseph Karo, Vladimir Bartol, Georges Rodenbach, Nicolás Gómez Dávila, and Joanot Martorell.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1889, Siegfried Kracauer ranks 54. Before him are Hans-Jürgen Stumpff, Beno Gutenberg, Vera Mukhina, Prince Xavier of Bourbon-Parma, Stanislav Kosior, and Li Dazhao. After him are Fritz Pfeffer, Hannah Höch, María Capovilla, Richard Glücks, Gunnar Gunnarsson, and Sophie Taeuber-Arp. Among people deceased in 1966, Siegfried Kracauer ranks 50. Before him are Lao She, Jisaburō Ozawa, Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski, Stanisław Jerzy Lec, Margaret Sanger, and Battista Farina. After him are Augusta Victoria of Hohenzollern, L. E. J. Brouwer, Edward Gordon Craig, Evelyn Waugh, Princess Beatrice of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, and Georges Duhamel.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Siegfried Kracauer ranks 1,371 out of 6,142. Before him are Hermine Reuss of Greiz (1887), Princess Adelgunde of Bavaria (1823), William I, Elector of Hesse (1743), Friedrich Hund (1896), Maria Josepha Amalia of Saxony (1803), and Conrad II of Italy (1074). After him are Prince Adalbert of Prussia (1884), Max Schreck (1879), Duchess Helene of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1814), Hans Driesch (1867), John George IV, Elector of Saxony (1668), and Til Schweiger (1963).

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Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Siegfried Kracauer ranks 86. Before him are Georg Kaiser (1878), Friedrich Maximilian Klinger (1752), Christian Friedrich Hebbel (1813), Kurt Tucholsky (1890), Joachim Fest (1926), and Stéphane Hessel (1917). After him are Hartmann von Aue (1160), Jakob Wassermann (1873), Widukind of Corvey (925), Wilhelm Müller (1794), Hartmann Schedel (1440), and Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué (1777).

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