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Max Brod

1884 - 1968

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Max Brod (Hebrew: מקס ברוד; 27 May 1884 – 20 December 1968) was an Israeli author, composer and journalist, born as a German-speaking Czech. He is notable for promoting the work of writer Franz Kafka and composer Leoš Janáček. Although he was a prolific writer in his own right, he is best remembered as the friend and biographer of Franz Kafka. Kafka named Brod as his literary executor, instructing Brod to burn his unpublished work upon his death. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Max Brod is the 314th most popular writer (up from 347th in 2019), the 37th most popular biography from Czechia (up from 41st in 2019) and the 7th most popular Czech Writer.

Max Brod is most famous for being the friend and biographer of Franz Kafka.

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Among writers, Max Brod ranks 314 out of 7,302. Before him are Robert Musil, Claudius Aelianus, J. M. G. Le Clézio, J. M. Coetzee, Ismail Kadare, and Herman Melville. After him are Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau, Ernst Jünger, Antonin Artaud, Doris Lessing, Héloïse, and François Mauriac.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1884, Max Brod ranks 11. Before him are Isoroku Yamamoto, Edvard Beneš, İsmet İnönü, Bronisław Malinowski, Édouard Daladier, and Peter Debye. After him are Walther von Reichenau, Claude Auchinleck, Anton Drexler, Otto Fritz Meyerhof, Theodor Heuss, and Friedrich Bergius. Among people deceased in 1968, Max Brod ranks 11. Before him are Padre Pio, Marcel Duchamp, John Steinbeck, Otto Hahn, Lev Landau, and Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark. After him are Henry Hallett Dale, Konstantin Rokossovsky, Robert F. Kennedy, George Gamow, Trygve Lie, and Karl Barth.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Max Brod ranks 37 out of 1,200. Before him are Albrecht von Wallenstein (1583), Arthur Seyss-Inquart (1892), Leoš Janáček (1854), Wenceslaus I, Duke of Bohemia (907), Emil Zátopek (1922), and Hans Kelsen (1881). After him are Ottokar II of Bohemia (1233), Gerty Cori (1896), Peter Grünberg (1939), Jan Palach (1948), Miloš Zeman (1944), and Bernard Bolzano (1781).

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Among WRITERS In Czechia

Among writers born in Czechia, Max Brod ranks 7. Before him are Franz Kafka (1883), Milan Kundera (1929), Václav Havel (1936), Rainer Maria Rilke (1875), Karel Čapek (1890), and Jaroslav Hašek (1883). After him are Milena Jesenská (1896), Bohumil Hrabal (1914), Franz Werfel (1890), Karl Kraus (1874), Jaroslav Seifert (1901), and Julius Fučík (1903).

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