WRITER

Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz

1885 - 1939

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Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz (Polish: [staˈɲiswaf iɡˈnatsɨ vʲitˈkʲɛvʲitʂ]; 24 February 1885 – 18 September 1939), commonly known as Witkacy, was a Polish writer, painter, philosopher, theorist, playwright, novelist, and photographer active before World War I and during the interwar period. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz has received more than 300,248 page views. His biography is available in 38 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz is the 1,589th most popular writer (up from 1,707th in 2019), the 353rd most popular biography from Poland (up from 365th in 2019) and the 32nd most popular Polish Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz ranks 1,589 out of 7,302Before him are Giorgio Bassani, Mór Jókai, Lydia Koidula, Akiyuki Nosaka, Namık Kemal, and Attila József. After him are Silvina Ocampo, Ibrahim ibn Yaqub, Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Arnaldur Indriðason, Natalie Clifford Barney, and Yaşar Kemal.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1885, Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz ranks 67Before him are Jules Pascin, Władysław Raczkiewicz, Sydney Chaplin, René Grousset, Alois Hudal, and Sisavang Vong. After him are Khải Định, Egon Kisch, Soemu Toyoda, Jules Romains, Viktor Schauberger, and Agustín Barrios. Among people deceased in 1939, Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz ranks 40Before him are Gerardo Machado, Otto Wels, Roman Dmowski, Franz Schmidt, Isaac Carasso, and Hans Langsdorff. After him are Norman Bethune, Carl Laemmle, Wu Peifu, Vladimir Shukhov, Bruno Liljefors, and Grigori Sokolnikov.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz ranks 353 out of 1,694Before him are Elizabeth Richeza of Poland (1286), Muazzez Sultan (1628), Richard Pipes (1923), Werner Naumann (1909), Anna Catherine Constance Vasa (1619), and Krzysztof Zanussi (1939). After him are Maximilian von Prittwitz (1848), Lothar von Arnauld de la Perière (1886), Alfred Korzybski (1879), Hedwig Jagiellon, Duchess of Bavaria (1457), Józef Elsner (1769), and Hugo Steinhaus (1887).

Among WRITERS In Poland

Among writers born in Poland, Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz ranks 32Before him are Jan Długosz (1415), Jan Kochanowski (1530), Georg Heym (1887), Sławomir Mrożek (1930), Fritz Gerlich (1883), and Jerzy Kosiński (1933). After him are Avraham Stern (1907), Andreas Gryphius (1616), Martin Opitz (1597), Stanisław Wyspiański (1869), I. L. Peretz (1852), and Stanisław Przybyszewski (1868).