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W. G. Sebald

1944 - 2001

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Winfried Georg Sebald (18 May 1944 – 14 December 2001), known as W. G. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of W. G. Sebald has received more than 907,900 page views. His biography is available in 39 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 36 in 2019). W. G. Sebald is the 930th most popular writer (up from 1,272nd in 2019), the 895th most popular biography from Germany (up from 1,311th in 2019) and the 58th most popular German Writer.

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  • 910k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 67.67

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 39

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.30

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.98

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, W. G. Sebald ranks 930 out of 7,302. Before him are Miep Gies, Lucius Accius, Vinicius de Moraes, Joost van den Vondel, Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen, and Ann Radcliffe. After him are Aimé Césaire, Thomas Pynchon, Jean de La Bruyère, Mirza Fatali Akhundov, Lafcadio Hearn, and Ouyang Xiu.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1944, W. G. Sebald ranks 78. Before him are Jonathan Demme, Gérard Mourou, Nǃxau ǂToma, Kary Mullis, Ashraf Marwan, and R. Lee Ermey. After him are Gianni Morandi, Günter Netzer, Thein Sein, Michelle Phillips, Andrew S. Tanenbaum, and Antonio Damasio. Among people deceased in 2001, W. G. Sebald ranks 34. Before him are William Hanna, Zhang Xueliang, John Lee Hooker, Nguyễn Văn Thiệu, Princess Sophie of Greece and Denmark, and Morris. After him are Timothy McVeigh, Charles Trenet, Juan Antonio Villacañas, Giovanni Leone, Balthus, and Chung Ju-yung.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, W. G. Sebald ranks 895 out of 7,253. Before him are Saloninus (242), Fritz Haarmann (1879), Hans-Dietrich Genscher (1927), Philip William, Elector Palatine (1615), Joost van den Vondel (1587), and Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen (1622). After him are Eduard Künneke (1885), Frederick I, Elector of Saxony (1370), Gudrun Ensslin (1940), Götz von Berlichingen (1480), Otto I, Duke of Bavaria (1120), and Maria Anna of Bavaria (1574).

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Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, W. G. Sebald ranks 58. Before him are Hans Fallada (1893), Stefan George (1868), Achim von Arnim (1781), Anna Seghers (1900), Joost van den Vondel (1587), and Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen (1622). After him are Hans Sachs (1494), Kurt Eisner (1867), Tannhäuser (1205), Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse (1868), Christoph Martin Wieland (1733), and Hrotsvitha (935).

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