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Jakob van Hoddis

1887 - 1942

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Jakob van Hoddis (16 May 1887 – May/June 1942) was the pen name of the Jewish German expressionist poet Hans Davidsohn, of which "Van Hoddis" is an anagram. His most famous poem Weltende (End of the world), published on 11 January 1911 in the Der Demokrat magazine, is generally regarded as ushering in the Expressionist style of poetry and inspired many other poets to write in a similarly grotesque style; he is also seen as perhaps the only German predecessor of surrealism (which did not exist as a movement in Germany). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jakob van Hoddis is the 5,181st most popular writer (down from 4,972nd in 2019), the 4,846th most popular biography from Germany (down from 4,664th in 2019) and the 309th most popular German Writer.

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Among writers, Jakob van Hoddis ranks 5,181 out of 7,302. Before him are Valerian Pidmohylny, Barbara Ehrenreich, Willem Bilderdijk, Tomás António Gonzaga, Miho Mosulishvili, and Henri Bosco. After him are Antoni Lange, René Maran, Wafa Sultan, Aminata Sow Fall, Cordwainer Smith, and Fedde Schurer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1887, Jakob van Hoddis ranks 228. Before him are Fartein Valen, Victor Hope, 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow, Edward Andrade, Charles Marion, Jacob L. Devers, and L. S. Lowry. After him are René Maran, Albert Paris Gütersloh, Edith Sitwell, Olga Oelkers, Walter Johnson, and Friedrich Gogarten. Among people deceased in 1942, Jakob van Hoddis ranks 211. Before him are May Robson, Adolphe Grisel, Hernando Siles Reyes, Mariya Polivanova, Vladimir Burtsev, and Frank Churchill. After him are Heinz Körvers, Joshua Pim, Stanisław Zaremba, Joseph Dempsey, Mahadev Desai, and Lucy Parsons.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Jakob van Hoddis ranks 4,849 out of 7,253. Before him are Ilona Slupianek (1956), Henning von Holtzendorff (1853), Gerhard Lamprecht (1897), Lya Lys (1908), Wilhelm Geiger (1856), and Carl H. Eigenmann (1863). After him are Oswald Teichmüller (1913), Hermann Oldenberg (1854), Wolfgang Blochwitz (1941), Walter Behrendt (1914), Serge Gnabry (1995), and Ludwig Wilhelm Gilbert (1769).

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Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Jakob van Hoddis ranks 309. Before him are Hermann Kant (1926), Johann Gottfried Seume (1763), Sarah Kirsch (1935), Wolf Erlbruch (1948), Angela Sommer-Bodenburg (1948), and Wilhelm Geiger (1856). After him are Peter Scholl-Latour (1924), Jenny Erpenbeck (1967), Friedrich von Hagedorn (1708), Heinrich Christian Boie (1744), Ludwig Thoma (1867), and Günther Jauch (1956).

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