WRITER

Waldemar Bonsels

1880 - 1952

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Waldemar Bonsels (21 February 1880 in Ahrensburg – 31 July 1952 in Ambach, Münsing) was a German writer and creator of Maya the Bee. Bonsels's most famous work is the children's book Die Biene Maja und ihre Abenteuer (The Adventures of Maya the Bee). This work served the basis for a Japanese animated television series Maya the Honey Bee in the mid-1970s, as well as a Croatian opera for children written by Bruno Bjelinski. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Waldemar Bonsels has received more than 95,473 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Waldemar Bonsels is the 2,625th most popular writer (down from 2,328th in 2019), the 2,782nd most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,431st in 2019) and the 173rd most popular German Writer.

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  • 95k

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  • 54.06

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  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.27

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.18

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Waldemar Bonsels ranks 2,625 out of 7,302. Before him are Günter Wallraff, John Wyndham, Bragi Boddason, Samad Vurgun, Richard Wurmbrand, and Neil Simon. After him are Orson Scott Card, Abraham ibn Daud, Frederick Marryat, Józef Czapski, Matthias Claudius, and Hella Haasse.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1880, Waldemar Bonsels ranks 92. Before him are Leonard Woolf, Gabriel Voisin, Christabel Pankhurst, Kōdō Sawaki, Zequinha de Abreu, and Mihail Sadoveanu. After him are Alfredo Ildefonso Schuster, Princess Thyra of Denmark, Azim Azimzade, Johannes Aavik, Georg von Trapp, and Arnold Gesell. Among people deceased in 1952, Waldemar Bonsels ranks 72. Before him are Eli Heckscher, Matrona Nikonova, Princess Hilda of Nassau, Johan Nygaardsvold, Michael von Faulhaber, and Sergei Bortkiewicz. After him are Thomas Hicks, Theodoros Pangalos, Carl Tanzler, Juan Yagüe, Mauno Pekkala, and Vasili Eroshenko.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Waldemar Bonsels ranks 2,782 out of 7,253. Before him are Günter Wallraff (1942), Princess Pauline of Württemberg (1877), Adelaide of Meissen (1160), Gerd Albrecht (1935), Ludwig Richter (1803), and Friedrich Wilhelm Zachow (1663). After him are Joseph Dietzgen (1828), Julian Nagelsmann (1987), Karl, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg (1813), Matthias Claudius (1740), Henryk Zygalski (1908), and Christoph Daum (1953).

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Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Waldemar Bonsels ranks 173. Before him are Friedrich Spee (1591), Johann Froben (1460), Karl Gutzkow (1811), Gertrud von Le Fort (1876), Georg Herwegh (1817), and Günter Wallraff (1942). After him are Matthias Claudius (1740), Gustav Schwab (1792), Samson Raphael Hirsch (1808), Cornelia Funke (1958), Ludwig Rellstab (1799), and Sebastian Franck (1499).

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