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Stéphane Hessel

1917 - 2013

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Stéphane Frédéric Hessel (born Stefan Friedrich Kaspar Hessel; 20 October 1917 – 26 February 2013) was a French diplomat, ambassador, writer, concentration camp survivor, Resistance member and BCRA agent. Born German, he became a naturalised French citizen in 1939. He became an observer of the editing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Stéphane Hessel has received more than 138,705 page views. His biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia. Stéphane Hessel is the 1,493rd most popular writer (down from 1,314th in 2019), the 1,585th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,364th in 2019) and the 103rd most popular German Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Stéphane Hessel ranks 1,493 out of 7,302Before him are Dmitry Merezhkovsky, Lord Alfred Douglas, Evelyn Waugh, Marianne Weber, Heiner Müller, and Adam Oehlenschläger. After him are Gil Vicente, Robert Jordan, Salvian, B. K. S. Iyengar, Nora Roberts, and Georges Duhamel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1917, Stéphane Hessel ranks 78Before him are Magda Szabó, Robert Bloch, Ettore Sottsass, Henry Ford II, Maurice Trintignant, and Alexander Schmorell. After him are Alparslan Türkeş, Pedro Infante, Carson McCullers, Roque Máspoli, Cyrus Vance, and Louis Zamperini. Among people deceased in 2013, Stéphane Hessel ranks 82Before him are Kenneth Waltz, Sławomir Mrożek, Wilfried Martens, Ladislao Mazurkiewicz, Ottmar Walter, and Rossana Podestà. After him are Arthur Danto, Ken Norton, Jacques Vergès, Abdul Rahim Hatif, Robert Fogel, and José Froilán González.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Stéphane Hessel ranks 1,585 out of 7,253Before him are Marianne Weber (1870), Heiner Müller (1929), Gertrude of Hohenberg (1225), Maria Anna Sophia of Saxony (1728), August Leskien (1840), and Richard Glücks (1889). After him are Max Immelmann (1890), Ernst von Weizsäcker (1882), Bernard of Saxe-Weimar (1604), Christian Leopold von Buch (1774), Salvian (405), and Karl Lachmann (1793).

Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Stéphane Hessel ranks 103Before him are Paul Rée (1849), Christian Friedrich Hebbel (1813), August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben (1798), Gottfried August Bürger (1747), Marianne Weber (1870), and Heiner Müller (1929). After him are Salvian (405), Eduard Mörike (1804), Adolph Freiherr Knigge (1752), Gustav Landauer (1870), Uri Avnery (1923), and Sebastian Haffner (1907).