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Osip Mandelstam

1891 - 1938

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Osip Emilyevich Mandelstam (Russian: Осип Эмильевич Мандельштам, IPA: [ˈosʲɪp ɨˈmʲilʲjɪvʲɪtɕ mənʲdʲɪlʲˈʂtam]; 14 January [O.S. 2 January] 1891 – 27 December 1938) was a Russian and Soviet poet. He was one of the foremost members of the Acmeist school. Osip Mandelstam was arrested during the repressions of the 1930s and sent into internal exile with his wife, Nadezhda Mandelstam. Given a reprieve of sorts, they moved to Voronezh in southwestern Russia. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Osip Mandelstam is the 540th most popular writer (up from 580th in 2019), the 104th most popular biography from Poland (up from 114th in 2019) and the 11th most popular Polish Writer.

Osip Mandelstam is most famous for being a Russian poet who was imprisoned and sentenced to death in a labor camp in 1938.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Osip Mandelstam ranks 540 out of 7,302. Before him are Pierre de Ronsard, Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet, Martial, Vasubandhu, Luo Guanzhong, and Nâzım Hikmet. After him are Seneca the Elder, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Camille Flammarion, Augusta, Lady Gregory, Jean Paul, and Enid Blyton.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1891, Osip Mandelstam ranks 23. Before him are Helmuth Weidling, Otto Dix, Rafael Trujillo, Fritz Todt, Genrikh Yagoda, and Ilya Ehrenburg. After him are Frederick Banting, Tadamichi Kuribayashi, Alexander Rodchenko, Frank Costello, Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich of Russia, and Edward Bernays. Among people deceased in 1938, Osip Mandelstam ranks 23. Before him are Karl Kautsky, Alexei Rykov, Genrikh Yagoda, Carl von Ossietzky, Suzanne Valadon, and Christian Lous Lange. After him are Suzanne Lenglen, Robert Johnson, King Oliver, Lev Shestov, Bruno Taut, and Vasily Blyukher.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Osip Mandelstam ranks 104 out of 1,694. Before him are Leopold Kronecker (1823), Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein (1858), Bolesław I the Brave (967), Norbert Elias (1897), Egon Krenz (1937), and Günter Blobel (1936). After him are Catherine Jagiellon (1526), Marie Walewska (1786), Georg Forster (1754), Henryk Wieniawski (1835), Dziga Vertov (1896), and Saint Casimir (1458).

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Among WRITERS In Poland

Among writers born in Poland, Osip Mandelstam ranks 11. Before him are Janusz Korczak (1878), Isaac Bashevis Singer (1902), Gerhart Hauptmann (1862), Andrzej Sapkowski (1948), Alfred Döblin (1878), and Władysław Reymont (1867). After him are Olga Tokarczuk (1962), Witold Gombrowicz (1904), Christa Wolf (1929), Jan Potocki (1761), Jerzy Kosiński (1933), and Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff (1788).

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