WRITER

Jakub Arbes

1840 - 1914

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Jakub Arbes (12 June 1840, in Prague (Smíchov) – 8 April 1914) was a Czech writer and intellectual. He is best known as the creator of the literary genre called romanetto and spent much of his professional life in France. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jakub Arbes is the 5,509th most popular writer (down from 5,464th in 2019), the 699th most popular biography from Czechia (down from 685th in 2019) and the 76th most popular Czech Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Jakub Arbes ranks 5,509 out of 7,302Before her are Nathan Zach, Abraham Cowley, José Carlos Somoza, Sufia Kamal, Ann Bannon, and Miguel Otero Silva. After her are James Bowen, Robertson Davies, Ádám Bodor, Kristin Hannah, Peter S. Beagle, and Federico De Roberto.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1840, Jakub Arbes ranks 92Before her are Édouard Vaillant, Jules Arsène Arnaud Claretie, Richard Knill Freeman, Simeon Solomon, Ghazaros Aghayan, and Sophia Jex-Blake. After her are American Horse, Isabella Stewart Gardner, John Stainer, and John Addington Symonds. Among people deceased in 1914, Jakub Arbes ranks 125Before her are Robert Hugh Benson, Karolina Kózka, Ida Freund, Christopher Cradock, Margaret E. Knight, and Altaf Hussain Hali. After her are Charles Devendeville, Joshua Chamberlain, Louis Bach, Gijsbert van Tienhoven, Johannes Weiss, and Joan Röell.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Jakub Arbes ranks 699 out of 1,200Before her are Věra Jourová (1964), Hana Mašková (1949), Miroslav Kadlec (1964), Františka Plamínková (1875), Jaroslav Plašil (1982), and Lubomir Kavalek (1943). After her are Zdeněk Grygera (1980), Vojtěch Bradáč (1913), Jan Kaplický (1937), Josef Němec (1933), Václav Machek (1925), and Jiří Weiss (1913).

Among WRITERS In Czechia

Among writers born in Czechia, Jakub Arbes ranks 76Before her are Petr Bezruč (1867), Emil František Burian (1904), Karolina Světlá (1830), Adolf Born (1930), František Halas (1901), and Hellmuth Karasek (1934). After her are Otokar Březina (1868), Jaroslav Kvapil (1868), Eduard Bass (1888), Marie Pujmanová (1893), Antonín Sova (1864), and Fredy Perlman (1934).