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Victor Klemperer

1881 - 1960

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Victor Klemperer (9 October 1881 – 11 February 1960) was a German scholar who also became known as a diarist. His journals, published in Germany in 1995, detailed his life under the German Empire, the Weimar Republic, the Fascist Third Reich, and the communist German Democratic Republic. The three volumes of his diaries have been published in English translations: I Shall Bear Witness, To the Bitter End, and The Lesser Evil. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Victor Klemperer has received more than 500,952 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Victor Klemperer is the 4,436th most popular politician (down from 4,036th in 2019), the 247th most popular biography from Poland (down from 238th in 2019) and the 65th most popular Polish Politician.

Victor Klemperer was a professor of French literature who was born in 1881 and died in 1960. He is most famous for his diaries which he wrote during the time he was in Nazi Germany.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Victor Klemperer ranks 4,436 out of 15,577. Before him are Pausanias of Sparta, Zoe Karbonopsina, António Costa, Prince Philippe, Duke of Orléans, Magnus VI of Norway, and Theudis. After him are Anna von Schweidnitz, Otto II, Duke of Bavaria, Burt Munro, Milorad Dodik, John I, Duke of Brabant, and Nikolay Bobrikov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1881, Victor Klemperer ranks 51. Before him are Emil Ludwig, Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax, Ludwig Binswanger, Nikolai Myaskovsky, Sveinn Björnsson, and Cecil B. DeMille. After him are Giovanni Papini, P. G. Wodehouse, Paul Cornu, Vincenzo Lancia, Mikhail Larionov, and L. E. J. Brouwer. Among people deceased in 1960, Victor Klemperer ranks 32. Before him are Felix Kersten, Ethel Voynich, Friedrich Adler, Ida Rubinstein, Henri Guisan, and Hugo Alfvén. After him are Mack Sennett, Eddie Cochran, Beno Gutenberg, Dimitri Mitropoulos, Salvatore Ferragamo, and Norodom Suramarit.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Victor Klemperer ranks 247 out of 1,454. Before him are Dieter Wisliceny (1911), Akiba Rubinstein (1880), Miguel Najdorf (1910), Kurt Tank (1898), Sylvius Leopold Weiss (1687), and Henryk Szeryng (1918). After him are Anna von Schweidnitz (1339), Aleksander Kwaśniewski (1954), Kurt Masur (1927), Karl Ludwig Hencke (1793), Wanda Landowska (1879), and Leopold Trepper (1904).

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Among POLITICIANS In Poland

Among politicians born in Poland, Victor Klemperer ranks 65. Before him are Piast the Wheelwright (800), Władysław II the Exile (1105), Gunderic (379), Przemysł II (1257), Władysław I Herman (1043), and Dieter Wisliceny (1911). After him are Anna von Schweidnitz (1339), Aleksander Kwaśniewski (1954), Friedrich Wilhelm, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg (1785), Edward Gierek (1913), Leszek the White (1186), and Ryszard Kaczorowski (1919).

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