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Milena Jesenská

1896 - 1944

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Milena Jesenská (Czech: [ˈmɪlɛna ˈjɛsɛnskaː]; 10 August 1896 – 17 May 1944) was a Czech journalist, writer, editor and translator. She is noted for her correspondence with the author Franz Kafka and was one of the first to translate his work from the German language. After the Nazi invasion of Czechoslovakia, she joined a resistance movement to help Jews and other refugees. She died in Ravensbrück, a Nazi prison camp. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Milena Jesenská is the 480th most popular writer (down from 474th in 2019), the 58th most popular biography from Czechia (down from 55th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Czech Writer.

Milena Jesenská is most famous for her work as a Czechoslovakian spy during World War II.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Milena Jesenská ranks 480 out of 7,302. Before her are Lactantius, André Maurois, Karl Barth, Ken Follett, Savitribai Phule, and France Prešeren. After her are Vladimir Vysotsky, Edward Said, Comte de Lautréamont, José Martí, René Guénon, and Romain Gary.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1896, Milena Jesenská ranks 20. Before her are Konstantin Rokossovsky, Robert S. Mulliken, Klement Gottwald, Trygve Lie, Andrei Zhdanov, and Paula Hitler. After her are Carl Ferdinand Cori, Felix Steiner, Dziga Vertov, Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg, Howard Hawks, and A. J. Cronin. Among people deceased in 1944, Milena Jesenská ranks 27. Before her are Galeazzo Ciano, Erwin von Witzleben, Manuel L. Quezon, Ernst Thälmann, Michael Wittmann, and Marc Bloch. After her are Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Joseph P. Kennedy Jr., Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark, Chūichi Nagumo, Aristide Maillol, and Henning von Tresckow.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Milena Jesenská ranks 58 out of 1,200. Before her are Madeleine Albright (1937), Joanna of Austria, Grand Duchess of Tuscany (1547), Emil Hácha (1872), Adalbert of Prague (955), Antonín Panenka (1948), and George of Poděbrady (1420). After her are Eugen Böhm von Bawerk (1851), Josef Masopust (1931), Carl Ferdinand Cori (1896), Anton Raphael Mengs (1728), Bonne of Luxembourg (1315), and Karl Hermann Frank (1898).

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Among WRITERS In Czechia

Among writers born in Czechia, Milena Jesenská ranks 8. Before her are Milan Kundera (1929), Václav Havel (1936), Rainer Maria Rilke (1875), Karel Čapek (1890), Jaroslav Hašek (1883), and Max Brod (1884). After her are Bohumil Hrabal (1914), Franz Werfel (1890), Karl Kraus (1874), Jaroslav Seifert (1901), Julius Fučík (1903), and Jan Neruda (1834).

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