WRITER

Lion Feuchtwanger

1884 - 1958

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Lion Feuchtwanger (German: [ˈliːɔn ˈfɔʏçtˌvaŋɐ] ; 7 July 1884 – 21 December 1958) was a German Jewish novelist and playwright. A prominent figure in the literary world of Weimar Germany, he influenced contemporaries including playwright Bertolt Brecht. Feuchtwanger's Judaism and fierce criticism of the Nazi Party, years before it assumed power, ensured that he would be a target of government-sponsored persecution after Adolf Hitler's appointment as chancellor of Germany in January 1933. Following a brief period of internment in France and a harrowing escape from continental Europe, he found asylum in the United States, where he died in 1958. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Lion Feuchtwanger is the 605th most popular writer (down from 599th in 2019), the 594th most popular biography from Germany (down from 565th in 2019) and the 33rd most popular German Writer.

Lion Feuchtwanger is most famous for his novel, Jud Suss, which is a fictionalized account of the life of Joseph Süss Oppenheimer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Lion Feuchtwanger ranks 605 out of 7,302. Before him are Gustav Meyrink, Paul Lafargue, Marina Tsvetaeva, Alfred de Musset, Kazuo Ishiguro, and Ausonius. After him are Bert Hellinger, Ellen G. White, Dino Buzzati, Titus Pomponius Atticus, Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, and Ludwig Tieck.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1884, Lion Feuchtwanger ranks 26. Before him are Franz Halder, Gaston Bachelard, Yevgeny Zamyatin, Hermann Rorschach, Auguste Piccard, and Casimir Funk. After him are Vincent Auriol, Emil Jannings, Rudolf Bultmann, Gerald Gardner, Edward Sapir, and Yitzhak Ben-Zvi. Among people deceased in 1958, Lion Feuchtwanger ranks 19. Before him are Abul Kalam Azad, Maurice de Vlaminck, Milutin Milanković, Rudolf von Laban, Juan Ramón Jiménez, and Maurice Gamelin. After him are G. E. Moore, Georges Rouault, Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna of Russia, John Boland, J. G. Strijdom, and Giacomo Balla.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Lion Feuchtwanger ranks 594 out of 7,253. Before him are Johann Reuchlin (1455), Karl Schwarzschild (1873), Maximilian III Joseph, Elector of Bavaria (1727), Robert the Strong (900), Karl Theodor, Duke in Bavaria (1839), and Matthias Jakob Schleiden (1804). After him are Bert Hellinger (1925), Friedrich Mohs (1773), Sophia of Nassau (1836), Ernst Lubitsch (1892), Hans Spemann (1869), and Theodor W. Hänsch (1941).

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Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Lion Feuchtwanger ranks 33. Before him are Erich Kästner (1899), Heinrich Mann (1871), August Wilhelm Schlegel (1767), Jean Paul (1763), Ulrich von Hutten (1488), and Patrick Süskind (1949). After him are Bert Hellinger (1925), Ludwig Tieck (1773), Klaus Mann (1906), Dietrich Eckart (1868), Georg Büchner (1813), and Clemens Brentano (1778).

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