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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 166,123 page views. Her biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Vicki Baum is the 1,666th most popular writer (down from 1,615th in 2019), the 401st most popular biography from Austria (down from 382nd in 2019) and the 33rd most popular Austrian Writer.

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  • 28

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  • 5.01

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  • 2.77

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Vicki Baum ranks 1,666 out of 5,755Before her are Gaius Julius Solinus, Seamus Heaney, Wolfgang Borchert, Hadewijch, Ida Laura Pfeiffer, and Walafrid Strabo. After her are Samuel ibn Naghrillah, Antonio de Nebrija, Ahad Ha'am, Ivan Klíma, Kateb Yacine, and John of Kronstadt.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1888, Vicki Baum ranks 72Before her are Werner Jaeger, Valerian Kuybyshev, Jan Syrový, Harpo Marx, Louis Durey, and Franz Pfeffer von Salomon. After her are Wellington Koo, Henry A. Wallace, Prince Axel of Denmark, Masaharu Homma, Fritz Reiner, and Clara Campoamor. Among people deceased in 1960, Vicki Baum ranks 51Before her are Frank Lloyd, Inejiro Asanuma, Leonard Woolley, Yan Xishan, Paul Abraham, and Antonie Pannekoek. After her are Pierre Reverdy, José Antonio Aguirre, Alexandre Benois, Abram Ioffe, James Montgomery Flagg, and Edwin Fischer.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Vicki Baum ranks 401 out of 1,237Before her are Paul Badura-Skoda (1927), Frederick I, Duke of Austria (1175), Frederick I, Margrave of Baden (1249), Adam Rainer (1899), Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall (1774), and Ida Laura Pfeiffer (1797). After her are Otto Wächter (1901), Archduchess Maria Annunciata of Austria (1876), Aloys II, Prince of Liechtenstein (1796), Joseph Johann Adam, Prince of Liechtenstein (1690), Friedrich von Amerling (1803), and Hanns Albin Rauter (1895).

Among WRITERS In Austria

Among writers born in Austria, Vicki Baum ranks 33Before her are Peter Altenberg (1859), Christine Nöstlinger (1936), Karl-Maria Kertbeny (1824), Raul Hilberg (1926), Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall (1774), and Ida Laura Pfeiffer (1797). After her are Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić (1874), Hermann Bahr (1863), Johann Nestroy (1801), Gitta Sereny (1921), Johannes Mario Simmel (1924), and Ilse Aichinger (1921).