1944 - 2001
Winfried Georg Sebald (18 May 1944 – 14 December 2001), known as W. G. Sebald or (as he preferred) Max Sebald, was a German writer and academic. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of W. G. Sebald has received more than 489,912 page views. His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). W. G. Sebald is the 1,235th most popular writer (up from 1,405th in 2019), the 1,205th most popular biography from Germany (up from 1,308th in 2019) and the 83rd most popular German Writer.
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Among writers, W. G. Sebald ranks 1,235 out of 5,794. Before him are Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon, Sharafkhan Bidlisi, Odo of Cluny, Phrynichus, Philippe Soupault, and Jeffery Deaver. After him are Maurus Servius Honoratus, Antarah ibn Shaddad, Forough Farrokhzad, Qiu Jin, J. G. Ballard, and Rasul Gamzatov.
1675 - 1755
HPI: 68.77
Rank: 1,229
1543 - 1603
HPI: 68.76
Rank: 1,230
878 - 942
HPI: 68.76
Rank: 1,231
535 BC - 500 BC
HPI: 68.76
Rank: 1,232
1897 - 1990
HPI: 68.75
Rank: 1,233
1950 - Present
HPI: 68.73
Rank: 1,234
1944 - 2001
HPI: 68.73
Rank: 1,235
363 - 301
HPI: 68.72
Rank: 1,236
525 - 615
HPI: 68.72
Rank: 1,237
1935 - 1967
HPI: 68.72
Rank: 1,238
1875 - 1907
HPI: 68.71
Rank: 1,239
1930 - 2009
HPI: 68.71
Rank: 1,240
1923 - 2003
HPI: 68.71
Rank: 1,241
Among people born in 1944, W. G. Sebald ranks 88. Before him are Thein Sein, Roger Scruton, Gianni Morandi, Jean-Pierre Sauvage, Nǃxau ǂToma, and Gary Busey. After him are Claudia Mori, Mairead Maguire, Killing of Peter Fechter, Ren Zhengfei, Michael Nyman, and Antonio Damasio. Among people deceased in 2001, W. G. Sebald ranks 46. Before him are Ken Kesey, Juan Antonio Villacañas, Poul Anderson, Timothy McVeigh, Masao Ono, and Indro Montanelli. After him are Stanley Kramer, Emilie Schindler, Francisco Rabal, Giovanni Leone, Joseph Greenberg, and Joey Ramone.
1944 - Present
HPI: 68.96
Rank: 82
1944 - 2020
HPI: 68.94
Rank: 83
1944 - Present
HPI: 68.89
Rank: 84
1944 - Present
HPI: 68.80
Rank: 85
1944 - 2003
HPI: 68.79
Rank: 86
1944 - Present
HPI: 68.75
Rank: 87
1944 - 2001
HPI: 68.73
Rank: 88
1944 - Present
HPI: 68.58
Rank: 89
1944 - Present
HPI: 68.47
Rank: 90
1944 - 1962
HPI: 68.34
Rank: 91
1944 - Present
HPI: 68.33
Rank: 92
1944 - Present
HPI: 68.32
Rank: 93
1944 - Present
HPI: 68.32
Rank: 94
1935 - 2001
HPI: 69.64
Rank: 40
1922 - 2001
HPI: 69.59
Rank: 41
1926 - 2001
HPI: 69.45
Rank: 42
1968 - 2001
HPI: 69.45
Rank: 43
1923 - 2001
HPI: 69.19
Rank: 44
1909 - 2001
HPI: 68.83
Rank: 45
1944 - 2001
HPI: 68.73
Rank: 46
1913 - 2001
HPI: 68.59
Rank: 47
1907 - 2001
HPI: 68.42
Rank: 48
1926 - 2001
HPI: 68.23
Rank: 49
1908 - 2001
HPI: 68.19
Rank: 50
1915 - 2001
HPI: 68.14
Rank: 51
1951 - 2001
HPI: 68.14
Rank: 52
Among people born in Germany, W. G. Sebald ranks 1,205 out of 5,289. Before him are Louis II, Duke of Bavaria (1229), Karl von Bülow (1846), Hieronymus Wolf (1516), Max Hoffmann (1869), Prince Ernest Augustus of Hanover (1914), and Sebastian Kneipp (1821). After him are Charles, Grand Duke of Baden (1786), Tilman Riemenschneider (1460), Sophie Magdalene of Brandenburg-Kulmbach (1700), Karl-Otto Apel (1922), Maximilian, Hereditary Prince of Saxony (1759), and Albert I, Duke of Bavaria (1336).
1229 - 1294
HPI: 68.76
Rank: 1,199
1846 - 1921
HPI: 68.76
Rank: 1,200
1516 - 1580
HPI: 68.76
Rank: 1,201
1869 - 1927
HPI: 68.76
Rank: 1,202
1914 - 1987
HPI: 68.74
Rank: 1,203
1821 - 1897
HPI: 68.73
Rank: 1,204
1944 - 2001
HPI: 68.73
Rank: 1,205
1786 - 1818
HPI: 68.72
Rank: 1,206
1460 - 1531
HPI: 68.72
Rank: 1,207
1700 - 1770
HPI: 68.72
Rank: 1,208
1922 - 2017
HPI: 68.72
Rank: 1,209
1759 - 1838
HPI: 68.71
Rank: 1,210
1336 - 1404
HPI: 68.71
Rank: 1,211
Among writers born in Germany, W. G. Sebald ranks 83. Before him are Wilhelm Weitling (1808), Theodor Storm (1817), Hartmann von Aue (1160), Kurt Tucholsky (1890), Arnold van Gennep (1873), and August von Kotzebue (1761). After him are Siegfried Lenz (1926), Hartmann Schedel (1440), Joachim Fest (1926), Marie of Cleves, Duchess of Orléans (1426), Johann Peter Eckermann (1792), and Christian Friedrich Hebbel (1813).
1808 - 1871
HPI: 69.13
Rank: 77
1817 - 1888
HPI: 69.06
Rank: 78
1160 - 1210
HPI: 68.96
Rank: 79
1890 - 1935
HPI: 68.96
Rank: 80
1873 - 1957
HPI: 68.84
Rank: 81
1761 - 1819
HPI: 68.79
Rank: 82
1944 - 2001
HPI: 68.73
Rank: 83
1926 - 2014
HPI: 68.69
Rank: 84
1440 - 1514
HPI: 68.65
Rank: 85
1926 - 2006
HPI: 68.65
Rank: 86
1426 - 1487
HPI: 68.53
Rank: 87
1792 - 1854
HPI: 68.52
Rank: 88
1813 - 1863
HPI: 68.52
Rank: 89