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Emil Ludwig

1881 - 1948

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Emil Ludwig (25 January 1881 – 17 September 1948) was a German-Swiss author, known for his biographies and study of historical "greats." Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Emil Ludwig is the 1,093rd most popular writer (down from 1,045th in 2019), the 238th most popular biography from Poland (down from 223rd in 2019) and the 20th most popular Polish Writer.

Emil Ludwig is most famous for his biographies of famous people, including a biography of Napoleon Bonaparte.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Emil Ludwig ranks 1,093 out of 7,302. Before him are Harriet Jacobs, Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald, Ernst Barlach, James Thomson, Carlos Ruiz Zafón, and Alfred Kubin. After him are Lucrezia Tornabuoni, Mimnermus, Marguerite Porete, B. Traven, Ivan Cankar, and Tess Gerritsen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1881, Emil Ludwig ranks 49. Before him are Otto Wille Kuusinen, Ivan Ribar, Henry Maitland Wilson, Otto Bauer, Carlo Carrà, and Sveinn Björnsson. After him are Alfred Radcliffe-Brown, Lewis Fry Richardson, P. G. Wodehouse, Artur Phleps, Nikolai Myaskovsky, and Ludwig Binswanger. Among people deceased in 1948, Emil Ludwig ranks 41. Before him are Lizzie Magie, Iwane Matsui, Zelda Fitzgerald, Pompeu Fabra, Uzeyir Hajibeyov, and Kathleen Cavendish, Marchioness of Hartington. After him are Feng Yuxiang, Yoshiko Kawashima, Kōki Hirota, Hans Aumeier, Manuel Roxas, and Dieter Wisliceny.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Emil Ludwig ranks 238 out of 1,694. Before him are Robert Luther (1822), Ernst Toller (1893), Adolf Engler (1844), Udo Lattek (1935), Wacław Sierpiński (1882), and Bolesław Prus (1847). After him are B. Traven (1882), Władysław II the Exile (1105), Zbigniew Boniek (1956), Charles Proteus Steinmetz (1865), Arnold Zweig (1887), and Martin Agricola (1486).

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Among WRITERS In Poland

Among writers born in Poland, Emil Ludwig ranks 20. Before him are Christa Wolf (1929), Jan Potocki (1761), Jerzy Kosiński (1933), Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff (1788), Ernst Toller (1893), and Bolesław Prus (1847). After him are B. Traven (1882), Arnold Zweig (1887), Johanna Schopenhauer (1766), Tadeusz Mazowiecki (1927), Jan Długosz (1415), and Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff (1848).

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