WRITER

Ursula Kuczynski

1907 - 2000

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Ursula Kuczynski (15 May 1907 – 7 July 2000), also known as Ruth Werner, Ursula Beurton and Ursula Hamburger, was a German Communist activist who spied for the Soviet Union during the 1930s and 1940s, most famously as the handler of nuclear scientist Klaus Fuchs. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ursula Kuczynski has received more than 423,946 page views. Her biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Ursula Kuczynski is the 2,489th most popular writer (up from 2,551st in 2019), the 2,646th most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,639th in 2019) and the 159th most popular German Writer.

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  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.23

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.31

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Ursula Kuczynski ranks 2,489 out of 7,302. Before her are Timotheus of Miletus, Wilhelm Raabe, Richard Adams, Peter Shaffer, Isak Samokovlija, and Sextus Pompeius Festus. After her are Yuan Mei, Valery Larbaud, Karin Fossum, Stefan Heym, Walter of Châtillon, and Michael Bishop.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1907, Ursula Kuczynski ranks 139. Before her are Walter Frentz, Mikhail Mikhaylovich Gerasimov, Mihail Sebastian, Ramon Magsaysay, Roberto Cherro, and Bo Gu. After her are Frederick Copleston, Grand Duchess Maria Kirillovna of Russia, Fay Wray, L. Sprague de Camp, Sergei Kruglov, and Parvin E'tesami. Among people deceased in 2000, Ursula Kuczynski ranks 98. Before her are Hendrik Casimir, Charles M. Schulz, George Volkoff, Ahmad Shamlou, Rabah Bitat, and Domingos da Guia. After her are Svetozar Vukmanović, Kalle Svensson, Christian Marquand, Bernhard Wicki, L. Sprague de Camp, and Penelope Fitzgerald.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Ursula Kuczynski ranks 2,646 out of 7,253. Before her are John II, Count Palatine of Simmern (1492), Johann Karl Friedrich Zöllner (1834), Regina Jonas (1902), Doro (1964), Carl Ludwig Blume (1796), and Otl Aicher (1922). After her are Helmut Gröttrup (1916), Stefan Heym (1913), Marie Eleonore of Cleves (1550), Georg Franz Hoffmann (1760), Henry Koster (1905), and Dirk Nowitzki (1978).

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Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Ursula Kuczynski ranks 159. Before her are Charlotte Buff (1753), Johann Karl August Musäus (1735), Gottschalk of Orbais (805), Rolf Hochhuth (1931), Christian Friedrich Daniel Schubart (1739), and Wilhelm Raabe (1831). After her are Stefan Heym (1913), Heinrich Hoffmann (1809), Heinz G. Konsalik (1921), Christian Fürchtegott Gellert (1715), Dorothea von Schlegel (1764), and George Mosse (1918).

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