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Gerhart Hauptmann

1862 - 1946

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Gerhart Johann Robert Hauptmann (German: [ˈɡeːɐ̯haʁt ˈhaʊptman] ; 15 November 1862 – 6 June 1946) was a German dramatist and novelist. He is counted among the most important promoters of literary naturalism, though he integrated other styles into his work as well. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1912. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Gerhart Hauptmann is the 246th most popular writer (up from 289th in 2019), the 33rd most popular biography from Poland (up from 51st in 2019) and the 7th most popular Polish Writer.

Gerhart Hauptmann is most famous for his play "The Weavers."

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Among writers, Gerhart Hauptmann ranks 246 out of 7,302. Before him are Friedrich Schlegel, Juvenal, Ferdowsi, Prosper Mérimée, Lou Andreas-Salomé, and W. H. Auden. After him are C. S. Lewis, Mansur Al-Hallaj, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Osamu Dazai, Grazia Deledda, and Henrik Pontoppidan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1862, Gerhart Hauptmann ranks 6. Before him are Gustav Klimt, Claude Debussy, Maurice Maeterlinck, David Hilbert, and Philipp Lenard. After him are Allvar Gullstrand, William Henry Bragg, Hilma af Klint, O. Henry, Aristide Briand, and Arthur Schnitzler. Among people deceased in 1946, Gerhart Hauptmann ranks 11. Before him are Joachim von Ribbentrop, Alfred Rosenberg, Alfred Jodl, Amon Göth, Ion Antonescu, and Ernst Kaltenbrunner. After him are Hans Frank, Arthur Seyss-Inquart, Mikhail Kalinin, Alexander Alekhine, John Logie Baird, and Wilhelm Frick.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Gerhart Hauptmann ranks 33 out of 1,694. Before him are Marie Leszczyńska (1703), Fedor von Bock (1880), Władysław Szpilman (1911), Lech Kaczyński (1949), Tadeusz Reichstein (1897), and Manfred von Richthofen (1892). After him are Rudolf Clausius (1822), Zygmunt Bauman (1925), Władysław IV Vasa (1595), Sigismund II Augustus (1520), Günther von Kluge (1882), and Walther Nernst (1864).

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Among WRITERS In Poland

Among writers born in Poland, Gerhart Hauptmann ranks 7. Before him are Günter Grass (1927), Henryk Sienkiewicz (1846), Wisława Szymborska (1923), Adam Mickiewicz (1798), Janusz Korczak (1878), and Isaac Bashevis Singer (1902). After him are Andrzej Sapkowski (1948), Alfred Döblin (1878), Władysław Reymont (1867), Osip Mandelstam (1891), Olga Tokarczuk (1962), and Witold Gombrowicz (1904).

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