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Elisabeth Langgässer

1899 - 1950

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Elisabeth Langgässer (23 February 1899 – 25 July 1950) was a German author and teacher. She is known for lyrical poetry and novels. Her short story Saisonbeginn, for example, provides a graphically human portrayal of a 1930s German Alpine village erecting a sign forbidding the entry of Jews. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Elisabeth Langgässer is the 4,332nd most popular writer (up from 5,329th in 2019), the 4,300th most popular biography from Germany (up from 4,903rd in 2019) and the 260th most popular German Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Elisabeth Langgässer ranks 4,332 out of 7,302. Before her are Kamini Roy, Vladimir Odoyevsky, Vladimir Oravsky, Alexander of Abonoteichus, Cesare Balbo, and Ostap Vyshnya. After her are Philippa Gregory, Yuri Bondarev, Walter Savage Landor, Robert Jungk, Joss Whedon, and Ruth Prawer Jhabvala.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1899, Elisabeth Langgässer ranks 206. Before her are Carlyle S. Beals, Colleen Moore, Paul Schmidt, Giorgio Chiavacci, Bernhard Rogge, and E. B. White. After her are René Petit, Ian Keith, Jafar Jabbarly, Willem Jacob Luyten, Alexander Nesmeyanov, and Jean Cugnot. Among people deceased in 1950, Elisabeth Langgässer ranks 139. Before her are Louis Wilkins, Frederick Twort, Maurice Costello, José Berraondo, Francisco Villota, and Ransom E. Olds. After her are Mikhail Tskhakaya, Adolf Meyer, John M. Stahl, Albert Ehrenstein, Aleksandrs Čaks, and Ivan Shmelyov.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Elisabeth Langgässer ranks 4,302 out of 7,253. Before her are Reinhard Mohn (1921), Marc Forster (1969), Emil Julius Gumbel (1891), Wilhelm Bauer (1822), Hilde Schrader (1910), and Stefan Kuntz (1962). After her are Erika Böhm-Vitense (1923), Gotthard Handrick (1908), Robert Jungk (1913), Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (1927), Martin Bangemann (1934), and Alfred Landé (1888).

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Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Elisabeth Langgässer ranks 260. Before her are Johann Georg von Hahn (1811), Ruth Westheimer (1928), Max Lange (1832), Emanuel Geibel (1815), James Krüss (1926), and Joachim Ringelnatz (1883). After her are Robert Jungk (1913), Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (1927), Wolfgang Hildesheimer (1916), Bel Kaufman (1911), Konrad von Würzburg (1225), and Kito Lorenc (1938).

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