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Béla Balázs

1884 - 1949

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Béla Balázs (Hungarian: [ˈbeːlɒ ˈbɒlaːʒ]; 4 August 1884 – 17 May 1949), born Herbert Béla Bauer, was a Hungarian film critic, aesthetician, writer and poet of Jewish heritage. He was a proponent of formalist film theory. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Béla Balázs is the 1,390th most popular writer (up from 1,416th in 2019), the 165th most popular biography from Hungary (down from 153rd in 2019) and the 15th most popular Hungarian Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Béla Balázs ranks 1,390 out of 7,302. Before him are James Patterson, Robert Browning, Nicolás Gómez Dávila, Péter Nádas, Erskine Caldwell, and Clive Cussler. After him are Antoine-Henri Jomini, Adamantios Korais, Wace, Semonides of Amorgos, Wilhelm Weitling, and P. D. James.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1884, Béla Balázs ranks 50. Before him are Eugène Tisserant, Maria Spiridonova, Zinaida Serebriakova, Louis B. Mayer, Johan Laidoner, and Empress Teimei. After him are Hugo Schmeisser, Princess Helen of Serbia, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Wilhelm Backhaus, Félix Gouin, and Mammad Amin Rasulzadeh. Among people deceased in 1949, Béla Balázs ranks 43. Before him are André-Louis Debierne, Prince August Wilhelm of Prussia, Henry McMahon, Valentino Mazzola, José Clemente Orozco, and John Haigh. After him are Joaquín Turina, Aino Aalto, Hans Pfitzner, Ulrich Salchow, Ellery Harding Clark, and Yoshijirō Umezu.

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In Hungary

Among people born in Hungary, Béla Balázs ranks 165 out of 1,077. Before him are László Papp (1926), Ferenc Mádl (1931), Michael Polanyi (1891), Bayan I (600), Lajos Tichy (1935), and Péter Nádas (1942). After him are Coloman of Galicia (1208), Rosika Schwimmer (1877), Géza Lakatos (1890), Peter Delyan (1009), Georg Solti (1912), and Imi Lichtenfeld (1910).

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Among WRITERS In Hungary

Among writers born in Hungary, Béla Balázs ranks 15. Before him are Ján Kollár (1793), Emma Orczy (1865), Max Nordau (1849), Nikolaus Lenau (1802), Ephraim Kishon (1924), and Péter Nádas (1942). After him are Rosika Schwimmer (1877), Magda Szabó (1917), Hannah Szenes (1921), Attila József (1905), György Konrád (1933), and Miklós Zrínyi (1620).

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