WRITER

Vicki Baum

1888 - 1960

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Hedwig "Vicki" Baum (; Hebrew: ויקי באום; January 24, 1888 – August 29, 1960) was an Austrian writer. She is known for the novel Menschen im Hotel ("People at a Hotel", 1929 — published in English as Grand Hotel), one of her first international successes. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Vicki Baum has received more than 178,511 page views. Her biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Vicki Baum is the 1,465th most popular writer (up from 1,662nd in 2019), the 352nd most popular biography from Austria (up from 401st in 2019) and the 26th most popular Austrian Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 180k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 58.71

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 31

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.84

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.69

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Hotel Shanghai
1939
Menschen im Hotel
Fiction in English
1930
Stud. chem. Helene Willfüer
1928
Zwischenfall in Lohwinckel
1930

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Vicki Baum ranks 1,465 out of 7,302. Before her are Muhammad Sayyid Tantawy, Winifred Wagner, Marie Anne Lenormand, Tristan Corbière, Jacques Cazotte, and Lu You. After her are James Oliver Curwood, Christian Friedrich Hebbel, Colin Dexter, August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben, Elizabeth Siddal, and Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1888, Vicki Baum ranks 62. Before her are Nuri al-Said, W. O. Bentley, Fritz Klein, Giuseppe Ungaretti, Nikolay Shvernik, and Walther von Seydlitz-Kurzbach. After her are Prince Christopher of Greece and Denmark, Soong Ai-ling, Hans Knappertsbusch, Antonio Sant'Elia, Wellington Koo, and Prince Oskar of Prussia. Among people deceased in 1960, Vicki Baum ranks 46. Before her are Norodom Suramarit, John D. Rockefeller Jr., Eddie Cochran, Frank Lloyd, Jussi Björling, and Beno Gutenberg. After her are Yan Xishan, August Kopff, Feroze Gandhi, Pierre Reverdy, Salvatore Ferragamo, and Sylvia Pankhurst.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Vicki Baum ranks 352 out of 1,424. Before her are Otto Gross (1877), Helene Weigel (1900), Joe Zawinul (1932), Carl Auer von Welsbach (1858), René Spitz (1887), and Matthäus Hetzenauer (1924). After her are Theodor Körner (1873), Friedrich Gulda (1930), Archduchess Mathilda of Austria (1849), Johann Joseph Fux (1660), Frederick I, Margrave of Baden (1249), and Alois Hudal (1885).

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Among WRITERS In Austria

Among writers born in Austria, Vicki Baum ranks 26. Before her are Božena Němcová (1820), Miep Gies (1909), August Kubizek (1888), Christine Nöstlinger (1936), Ida Laura Pfeiffer (1797), and Joseph Mohr (1792). After her are Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall (1774), Peter Altenberg (1859), Hermann Bahr (1863), Karl-Maria Kertbeny (1824), Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić (1874), and Eva Schloss (1929).

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