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Jurij Brězan

1916 - 2006

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Jurij Brězan (9 June 1916 – 12 March 2006) was a Sorbian writer. His works, especially the novels, narrative works and children's books, were available in the two languages German and Upper Sorbian. He lived, following its creation during and after 1945, in the German Democratic Republic (East Germany). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jurij Brězan is the 2,281st most popular writer (up from 3,483rd in 2019), the 2,463rd most popular biography from Germany (up from 3,577th in 2019) and the 151st most popular German Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Jurij Brězan ranks 2,281 out of 7,302. Before him are Étienne Dolet, Thomas Gray, Fujiwara no Teika, James Herbert Brennan, Dick Francis, and Mkhitar Sebastatsi. After him are Al-Busiri, Alma Karlin, Walter of Châtillon, Frankétienne, Tobias Smollett, and Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1916, Jurij Brězan ranks 98. Before him are Betty Grable, Yekaterina Budanova, Constantin Virgil Gheorghiu, Pérez Prado, Chiang Wei-kuo, and Luis Corvalán. After him are Mercedes McCambridge, Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann, Sangoulé Lamizana, Edmundo Suárez, Zein Al-Sharaf Talal, and Forrest J Ackerman. Among people deceased in 2006, Jurij Brězan ranks 122. Before him are Marie Tharp, Faas Wilkes, Billy Preston, Allen Carr, Marek Grechuta, and Ghulam Ishaq Khan. After him are Esther Lederberg, Alberto Spencer, Nina Schenk Gräfin von Stauffenberg, Silva Kaputikyan, Don Thompson, and Malcolm Arnold.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Jurij Brězan ranks 2,464 out of 7,253. Before him are Ferdinand von Bredow (1884), Alfred Hettner (1859), Johannes Fabricius (1587), Prince Karl Anton of Hohenzollern (1868), Christiane Vulpius (1765), and Wilhelm, Duke of Urach (1810). After him are Princess Ernestine of Saxe-Weimar (1740), Fritz Klingenberg (1912), Welf II, Duke of Bavaria (1072), Richard Wilhelm (1873), Anacharsis Cloots (1755), and Helmut Hasse (1898).

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Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Jurij Brězan ranks 151. Before him are Rahel Varnhagen (1771), Rudolf Rocker (1873), Karlheinz Deschner (1924), Uri Avnery (1923), Fred Uhlman (1901), and Sebastian Haffner (1907). After him are Berthold Auerbach (1812), Christian Fürchtegott Gellert (1715), Wieland Wagner (1917), Gertrud von Le Fort (1876), Karl Gutzkow (1811), and August von Platen-Hallermünde (1796).

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