WRITER

Adalbert Stifter

1805 - 1868

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Adalbert Stifter (German: [ˈʃtɪftɐ]; 23 October 1805 – 28 January 1868) was a Bohemian-Austrian writer, poet, painter, and pedagogue. He was notable for the vivid natural landscapes depicted in his writing and has long been popular in the German-speaking world. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Adalbert Stifter is the 1,059th most popular writer (down from 1,057th in 2019), the 136th most popular biography from Czechia (down from 128th in 2019) and the 15th most popular Czech Writer.

Adalbert Stifter is most famous for his novella, "The Story of My Life."

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Adalbert Stifter ranks 1,057 out of 7,302Before him are Martin Andersen Nexø, Zhuanxu, Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, and Ernst Barlach. After him are Ibn Sirin, Zelda Fitzgerald, Kazi Nazrul Islam, Titus Pomponius Atticus, Egeria, Ernst Toller, Valerie Solanas, and Sonia Rykiel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1805, Adalbert Stifter ranks 17Before him are Louis Auguste Blanqui, Franz Xaver Winterhalter, Marie d'Agoult, Khachatur Abovian, Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin, and Robert FitzRoy. After him are Robert Anderson, Thomas Graham, George Müller, Ewelina Hańska, August Bournonville, and Shirali Muslimov. Among people deceased in 1868, Adalbert Stifter ranks 14Before him are August Schleicher, David Brewster, Alexandre Colonna-Walewski, William T. G. Morton, Franz Berwald, and Okita Sōji. After him are François-Édouard Picot, Mihailo Obrenović, Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius, James Brooke, Christian Friedrich Schönbein, and James Mayer de Rothschild.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Adalbert Stifter ranks 136 out of 1,200Before him are Mojmir I of Moravia (795), Anton Reicha (1770), Vratislaus I, Duke of Bohemia (888), Alfred Brendel (1931), Boleslaus II, Duke of Bohemia (932), and Stanislav Grof (1931). After him are Rudolf Slánský (1901), Eduard Hanslick (1825), G. W. Pabst (1885), Joseph Maria Olbrich (1867), Alfred Kubin (1877), and Franz Benda (1709).

Among WRITERS In Czechia

Among writers born in Czechia, Adalbert Stifter ranks 15Before him are Bohumil Hrabal (1914), Franz Werfel (1890), Karl Kraus (1874), Jaroslav Seifert (1901), Julius Fučík (1903), and Jan Neruda (1834). After him are Alfred Kubin (1877), Cosmas of Prague (1045), Josef Čapek (1887), Guido Adler (1855), Martin of Opava (1300), and Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1830).