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Kurt Eisner

1867 - 1919

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Kurt Eisner (German pronunciation: [kʊʁt ˈʔaɪsnɐ]; 14 May 1867 – 21 February 1919) was a German politician, revolutionary, journalist, and theatre critic. As a socialist journalist, he organized the socialist revolution that overthrew the Wittelsbach monarchy in Bavaria in November 1918, which led to him being described as "the symbol of the Bavarian revolution". He is used as an example of charismatic authority by Max Weber. Eisner subsequently proclaimed the People's State of Bavaria but was assassinated by far-right German nationalist Anton Graf von Arco auf Valley in Munich on 21 February 1919. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Kurt Eisner is the 923rd most popular writer (up from 972nd in 2019), the 918th most popular biography from Germany (up from 954th in 2019) and the 54th most popular German Writer.

Kurt Eisner was a German journalist and socialist who became the first prime minister of the Bavarian Republic. He was assassinated in 1919.

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Among writers, Kurt Eisner ranks 923 out of 7,302. Before him are Etty Hillesum, Christopher Tolkien, Joseph Campbell, Rubén Darío, Artemidorus, and John Jacob Astor IV. After him are Abu'l-Fazl ibn Mubarak, Emanuel Schikaneder, Aristophanes of Byzantium, Ľudovít Štúr, Marie d'Agoult, and Hans Sachs.

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Among people born in 1867, Kurt Eisner ranks 29. Before him are Enrique Granados, Walther Rathenau, Stanley Baldwin, Umberto Giordano, Laura Ingalls Wilder, and Rubén Darío. After him are Percy Fawcett, Ignacy Mościcki, Hector Guimard, Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, Alexander Parvus, and Irving Fisher. Among people deceased in 1919, Kurt Eisner ranks 26. Before him are Ismail Qemali, Maria Theresa of Austria-Este, L. Frank Baum, Johannes Rydberg, Loránd Eötvös, and Milan Rastislav Štefánik. After him are Edward Charles Pickering, Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovich of Russia, Leonid Andreyev, Sophia Tolstaya, Habibullah Khan, and Franz Mehring.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Kurt Eisner ranks 918 out of 7,253. Before him are Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche (1846), Isdal Woman (1940), Luise Rainer (1910), Carl Friedrich Abel (1723), Elizabeth Alexeievna (1779), and Christian Heinrich Friedrich Peters (1813). After him are Karlheinz Böhm (1928), Joseph Pilates (1883), Emanuel Schikaneder (1751), Eugen Dühring (1833), Bernard Katz (1911), and Marie d'Agoult (1805).

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Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Kurt Eisner ranks 54. Before him are Karl Harrer (1890), Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen (1622), Thietmar of Merseburg (975), Radegund (518), Hans Fallada (1893), and Theodor Fontane (1819). After him are Emanuel Schikaneder (1751), Marie d'Agoult (1805), Hans Sachs (1494), Stefan George (1868), Hrotsvitha (935), and Peter Weiss (1916).

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