1904 - 1969
Witold Marian Gombrowicz (August 4, 1904 – July 24, 1969) was a Polish writer and playwright. His works are characterised by deep psychological analysis, a certain sense of paradox and absurd, anti-nationalist flavor. In 1937 he published his first novel, Ferdydurke, which presented many of his usual themes: problems of immaturity and youth, creation of identity in interactions with others, and an ironic, critical examination of class roles in Polish society and culture. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Witold Gombrowicz has received more than 283,321 page views. His biography is available in 45 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 44 in 2019). Witold Gombrowicz is the 683rd most popular writer (down from 625th in 2019), the 128th most popular biography from Poland (down from 125th in 2019) and the 12th most popular Polish Writer.
Witold Gombrowicz is most famous for his novel "Trans-Atlantyk" and his play "The Marriage."
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Among writers, Witold Gombrowicz ranks 683 out of 5,794. Before him are Daphne du Maurier, Eduardo Galeano, Giosuè Carducci, Judah Halevi, Saint Naum, and Luis de Góngora. After him are Theocritus, André Chénier, Pietro Metastasio, Alain-René Lesage, Suman Pokhrel, and John Bunyan.
1907 - 1989
HPI: 72.52
Rank: 677
1940 - 2015
HPI: 72.52
Rank: 678
1835 - 1907
HPI: 72.52
Rank: 679
1079 - 1141
HPI: 72.51
Rank: 680
830 - 910
HPI: 72.51
Rank: 681
1561 - 1627
HPI: 72.48
Rank: 682
1904 - 1969
HPI: 72.48
Rank: 683
315 BC - 260 BC
HPI: 72.47
Rank: 684
1762 - 1794
HPI: 72.46
Rank: 685
1698 - 1782
HPI: 72.46
Rank: 686
1668 - 1747
HPI: 72.45
Rank: 687
1967 - Present
HPI: 72.42
Rank: 688
1628 - 1688
HPI: 72.41
Rank: 689
Among people born in 1904, Witold Gombrowicz ranks 32. Before him are Glenn Miller, Odilo Globočnik, Hans Morgenthau, Ernst Mayr, Dmitry Kabalevsky, and Willem de Kooning. After him are Luis Carrero Blanco, Alejo Carpentier, Antonín Novotný, Nikolai Ostrovsky, Joseph Campbell, and Werner Forssmann. Among people deceased in 1969, Witold Gombrowicz ranks 26. Before him are C. F. Powell, Sonja Henie, Princess Alice of Battenberg, Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg, Levi Eshkol, and Arthur Friedenreich. After him are Dominique Pire, Boris Karloff, Joseph P. Kennedy Sr., Itzhak Stern, Joseph Kasa-Vubu, and Josef von Sternberg.
1904 - 1944
HPI: 73.08
Rank: 26
1904 - 1945
HPI: 72.91
Rank: 27
1904 - 1980
HPI: 72.88
Rank: 28
1904 - 2005
HPI: 72.84
Rank: 29
1904 - 1986
HPI: 72.53
Rank: 30
1904 - 1997
HPI: 72.49
Rank: 31
1904 - 1969
HPI: 72.48
Rank: 32
1904 - 1973
HPI: 72.42
Rank: 33
1904 - 1980
HPI: 72.10
Rank: 34
1904 - 1975
HPI: 71.99
Rank: 35
1904 - 1936
HPI: 71.97
Rank: 36
1904 - 1987
HPI: 71.91
Rank: 37
1904 - 1979
HPI: 71.42
Rank: 38
1903 - 1969
HPI: 74.93
Rank: 20
1912 - 1969
HPI: 74.91
Rank: 21
1885 - 1969
HPI: 74.45
Rank: 22
1887 - 1969
HPI: 74.39
Rank: 23
1895 - 1969
HPI: 74.00
Rank: 24
1892 - 1969
HPI: 73.51
Rank: 25
1904 - 1969
HPI: 72.48
Rank: 26
1910 - 1969
HPI: 72.34
Rank: 27
1887 - 1969
HPI: 71.84
Rank: 28
1888 - 1969
HPI: 71.70
Rank: 29
1901 - 1969
HPI: 71.59
Rank: 30
1910 - 1969
HPI: 71.43
Rank: 31
1894 - 1969
HPI: 71.00
Rank: 32
Among people born in Poland, Witold Gombrowicz ranks 128 out of 1,231. Before him are Tadeusz Reichstein (1897), Géza I of Hungary (1040), Adolf Anderssen (1818), Maxim Litvinov (1876), Alfred Tarski (1901), and Erich Mendelsohn (1887). After him are Władysław Sikorski (1881), Rochus Misch (1917), Arthur Liebehenschel (1901), Jerzy Grotowski (1933), Zdzisław Beksiński (1929), and Isabella Jagiellon (1519).
1897 - 1996
HPI: 72.64
Rank: 122
1040 - 1077
HPI: 72.62
Rank: 123
1818 - 1879
HPI: 72.58
Rank: 124
1876 - 1951
HPI: 72.57
Rank: 125
1901 - 1983
HPI: 72.51
Rank: 126
1887 - 1953
HPI: 72.49
Rank: 127
1904 - 1969
HPI: 72.48
Rank: 128
1881 - 1943
HPI: 72.47
Rank: 129
1917 - 2013
HPI: 72.47
Rank: 130
1901 - 1948
HPI: 72.36
Rank: 131
1933 - 1999
HPI: 72.31
Rank: 132
1929 - 2005
HPI: 72.29
Rank: 133
1519 - 1559
HPI: 72.27
Rank: 134
Among writers born in Poland, Witold Gombrowicz ranks 12. Before him are Henryk Sienkiewicz (1846), Adam Mickiewicz (1798), Gerhart Hauptmann (1862), Andrzej Sapkowski (1948), Alfred Döblin (1878), and Osip Mandelstam (1891). After him are Christa Wolf (1929), Olga Tokarczuk (1962), Władysław Reymont (1867), B. Traven (1882), Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff (1788), and Emil Ludwig (1881).
1846 - 1916
HPI: 77.61
Rank: 6
1798 - 1855
HPI: 77.48
Rank: 7
1862 - 1946
HPI: 76.88
Rank: 8
1948 - Present
HPI: 75.19
Rank: 9
1878 - 1957
HPI: 73.25
Rank: 10
1891 - 1938
HPI: 73.21
Rank: 11
1904 - 1969
HPI: 72.48
Rank: 12
1929 - 2011
HPI: 71.80
Rank: 13
1962 - Present
HPI: 71.78
Rank: 14
1867 - 1925
HPI: 71.04
Rank: 15
1882 - 1969
HPI: 70.75
Rank: 16
1788 - 1857
HPI: 70.72
Rank: 17
1881 - 1948
HPI: 70.07
Rank: 18