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Ödön von Horváth

1901 - 1938

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Edmund Josef von Horváth (9 December 1901, in Sušak, Rijeka, Austria-Hungary – 1 June 1938, in Paris, French Third Republic) was an Austro-Hungarian playwright and novelist who wrote in German, and went by the nom de plume Ödön von Horváth. He was one of the most critically admired writers of his generation prior to his untimely death. He enjoyed a series of successes on the stage with socially poignant and romantic plays, including Revolte auf Côte 3018 (1927), Sladek (1929), Italienische Nacht (1930), Hin und Her (1934), and Der Jüngste Tag (1937). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ödön von Horváth has received more than 162,316 page views. His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 33 in 2019). Ödön von Horváth is the 1,691st most popular writer (down from 1,349th in 2019), the 74th most popular biography from Croatia (down from 53rd in 2019) and the 9th most popular Croatian Writer.

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    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.72

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.45

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Ödön von Horváth ranks 1,691 out of 5,755. Before him are Dominique Venner, Juan Goytisolo, Augusto Roa Bastos, Rodulfus Glaber, Minamoto no Sanetomo, and Henri de Régnier. After him are Branko Ćopić, François Pierre La Varenne, Julius Firmicus Maternus, Carolyne zu Sayn-Wittgenstein, Manuel Puig, and John Gay.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1901, Ödön von Horváth ranks 85. Before him are George Gallup, Hugo Gunckel Lüer, Ub Iwerks, Alexander Fadeyev, Otto Wächter, and Nicola Abbagnano. After him are Maxwell D. Taylor, Chen Yi, Pier Giorgio Frassati, Nina Berberova, Cassandre, and Margarete Buber-Neumann. Among people deceased in 1938, Ödön von Horváth ranks 65. Before him are Vladimir Antonov-Ovseyenko, Leopold Godowsky, Princess Maria Antonietta of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Valery Chkalov, John Bates Clark, and Alexandru Averescu. After him are William McDougall, Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay, Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić, Nikolai Krylenko, Jukums Vācietis, and Pavel Dybenko.

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In Croatia

Among people born in Croatia, Ödön von Horváth ranks 74 out of 589. Before him are Zlatko Čajkovski (1923), Dubravka Ugrešić (1949), Dražen Petrović (1964), Petar Zrinski (1621), Zvonimir Boban (1968), and Marin Držić (1508). After him are Vladko Maček (1879), Francesco Laurana (1430), Mario Mandžukić (1986), Krešimir Ćosić (1948), Vatroslav Jagić (1838), and Siniša Mihajlović (1969).

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Among WRITERS In Croatia

Among writers born in Croatia, Ödön von Horváth ranks 9. Before him are Marko Marulić (1450), Ljudevit Gaj (1809), Matthias Flacius (1520), Dubravka Ugrešić (1949), Petar Zrinski (1621), and Marin Držić (1508). After him are Ivan Mažuranić (1814), Tin Ujević (1891), Slavenka Drakulić (1949), Petar Hektorović (1487), Petar Preradović (1818), and Niccolò Tommaseo (1802).

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