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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 88,575 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Waldemar Bonsels is the 2,335th most popular writer (up from 2,630th in 2019), the 2,434th most popular biography from Germany (up from 2,610th in 2019) and the 150th most popular German Writer.

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  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.34

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.87

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Waldemar Bonsels ranks 2,335 out of 5,755. Before him are René de Obaldia, Frans G. Bengtsson, Izumi Shikibu, Henri Desgrange, Salvador de Madariaga, and Constantine Manasses. After him are Józef Ignacy Kraszewski, Antimachus, Boris Akunin, Luigi Pulci, Mouloud Feraoun, and Théophile de Viau.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1880, Waldemar Bonsels ranks 82. Before him are Jan Kubelík, Arnold Gesell, Sholem Asch, Marie Stopes, Carl Van Vechten, and Leon Rupnik. After him are Kōdō Sawaki, Archie Hahn, Mihail Sadoveanu, Joseph Trumpeldor, Eric Lemming, and Gabriel Voisin. Among people deceased in 1952, Waldemar Bonsels ranks 63. Before him are Solomiya Krushelnytska, Eli Heckscher, Władysław Strzemiński, Pierre Renoir, Michael von Faulhaber, and Thomas Hicks. After him are Georgy Shpagin, Vladimír Clementis, René Grousset, Vasili Eroshenko, Keisuke Okada, and Theodoros Pangalos.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Waldemar Bonsels ranks 2,434 out of 6,142. Before him are Countess Palatine Hedwig Elisabeth of Neuburg (1673), Christian Augustus, Count Palatine of Sulzbach (1622), Margravine Elisabeth Sophie of Brandenburg (1674), Charles Augustus, Hereditary Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1844), Duchess Maria Elisabeth in Bavaria (1784), and Georg, Crown Prince of Saxony (1893). After him are Paul von Hase (1885), Adelbert Schulz (1903), Hermann Levi (1839), Floris III, Count of Holland (1141), Friedrich Wilhelm I, Duke of Saxe-Weimar (1562), and Helmut Gröttrup (1916).

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Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Waldemar Bonsels ranks 150. Before him are Günter Wallraff (1942), Yehuda Amichai (1924), Wolfgang Iser (1926), Rudolf Rocker (1873), Johann Froben (1460), and Berthold Auerbach (1812). After him are Unica Zürn (1916), Friedrich Spee (1591), Wilhelm Raabe (1831), Gottschalk of Orbais (805), Cornelia Funke (1958), and Friedrich Melchior, Baron von Grimm (1723).

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