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Gorch Fock

1880 - 1916

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Johann Wilhelm Kinau (22 August 1880 – 31 May 1916), better known by his pseudonym Gorch Fock (German pronunciation: [ɡɔʀx fɔk]), was a German author. Other pseudonyms he used were Jakob Holst and Giorgio Focco. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Gorch Fock is the 5,544th most popular writer (down from 5,317th in 2019), the 5,060th most popular biography from Germany (down from 4,890th in 2019) and the 324th most popular German Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Gorch Fock ranks 5,544 out of 7,302. Before him are Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Élie Blanchard, Carlo Cassola, Armand Lanoux, Johan Falkberget, and Günter de Bruyn. After him are Sergei Lukyanenko, Léon Frapié, George Chapman, Anšlavs Eglītis, Christoph Hein, and Gaspar Núñez de Arce.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1880, Gorch Fock ranks 198. Before him are Arthur Dove, Alexandros Chalkokondylis, Vilhelm Carlberg, Julio C. Tello, Marcel Van Crombrugge, and Oskar Perron. After him are Luis Alberto Riart, Enrique Olaya Herrera, Einar Arnórsson, Emma P. Carr, Russell Simpson, and Max Schöne. Among people deceased in 1916, Gorch Fock ranks 141. Before him are William Merritt Chase, Lorenzo Latorre, Mary Everest Boole, Samu Fóti, Charles Dawson, and Aeneas Mackintosh. After him are Boris Borisovich Golitsyn, Charles Ericksen, Guido Gozzano, Alexander Voeikov, Lydia Zvereva, and Hermann Martens.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Gorch Fock ranks 5,063 out of 7,253. Before him are Norbert Walter-Borjans (1952), Eduard David (1863), Marina Lewycka (1946), Yıldıray Baştürk (1978), Wolfgang Krull (1899), and Günter de Bruyn (1926). After him are Dana Wynter (1931), Robert Hausmann (1852), Hermann Hansen (1912), Eva Mattes (1954), Hans Goldschmidt (1861), and Ernst Ising (1900).

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Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Gorch Fock ranks 324. Before him are Ulrich Plenzdorf (1934), Peter Härtling (1933), Carl Amery (1922), Nathan Zach (1930), Marina Lewycka (1946), and Günter de Bruyn (1926). After him are Fredric Wertham (1895), Irmtraud Morgner (1933), Karl Leberecht Immermann (1796), Ludwig Ganghofer (1855), Franz Xaver Kroetz (1946), and Adolf Bartels (1862).

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