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Karl May

1842 - 1912

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Karl Friedrich May ( MY, German: [kaʁl ˈmaɪ] ; 25 February 1842 – 30 March 1912) was a German author known for writing often in first-person narrative about travels and adventures, mostly set in the American Old West or the Orient and Middle East, but also Latin America, China and within Germany. For a time he insisted that he actually had travelled to the West and was called Old Shatterhand there, while in the Osman Empire he was called Kara Ben Nemsi, and posed in costumes. May is one of the best-selling German writers of all time, with about 200,000,000 copies sold worldwide. A series of Karl May film adaptations was successful in the 1960s. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Karl May is the 382nd most popular writer (down from 348th in 2019), the 344th most popular biography from Germany (down from 296th in 2019) and the 22nd most popular German Writer.

Karl May was a German author who wrote about the adventures of a fictional character named Old Shatterhand.

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Among writers, Karl May ranks 382 out of 7,302. Before him are Léopold Sédar Senghor, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Salman Rushdie, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Margaret Mitchell, and Appian. After him are Sayyid Qutb, Constantine P. Cavafy, Alphonse de Lamartine, Ali-Shir Nava'i, Julio Cortázar, and Auguste Escoffier.

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Among people born in 1842, Karl May ranks 9. Before him are Stéphane Mallarmé, William James, Peter Kropotkin, Jules Massenet, Archduke Ludwig Viktor of Austria, and Alfred Marshall. After him are Dominic Savio, Josef Breuer, Camille Flammarion, Paul Lafargue, Karl Robert Eduard von Hartmann, and Arrigo Boito. Among people deceased in 1912, Karl May ranks 13. Before him are Frédéric Passy, Auguste Beernaert, Jules Massenet, Bram Stoker, Edward Smith, and Frederick VIII of Denmark. After him are Jack Phillips, Paul-Émile Lecoq de Boisbaudran, Lawrence Alma-Tadema, W. T. Stead, Luitpold, Prince Regent of Bavaria, and William IV, Grand Duke of Luxembourg.

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Among people born in Germany, Karl May ranks 344 out of 7,253. Before him are Klaus Schwab (1938), Prince Claus of the Netherlands (1926), Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1691), Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg (1868), Heinrich Louis d'Arrest (1822), and Georgy Lvov (1861). After him are Theodor Heuss (1884), Simone Signoret (1921), Ferdinand Schörner (1892), Max Horkheimer (1895), Karl-Heinz Rummenigge (1955), and Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1945).

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Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Karl May ranks 22. Before him are Friedrich Schlegel (1772), Eckhart Tolle (1948), Jacob Grimm (1785), Ernst Jünger (1895), Michael Ende (1929), and Heinrich von Kleist (1777). After him are Wilhelm Grimm (1786), Einhard (770), Traudl Junge (1920), Wolfram von Eschenbach (1170), Erich Kästner (1899), and Heinrich Mann (1871).

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