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Rainer Maria Rilke

1875 - 1926

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René Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke (4 December 1875 – 29 December 1926), known as Rainer Maria Rilke, was an Austrian poet and novelist. Acclaimed as an idiosyncratic and expressive poet, he is widely recognized as a significant writer in the German language. His work is viewed by critics and scholars as possessing undertones of mysticism, exploring themes of subjective experience and disbelief. His writings include one novel, several collections of poetry, several volumes of correspondence and a few early novellas. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Rainer Maria Rilke is the 119th most popular writer (down from 79th in 2019), the 15th most popular biography from Czechia (down from 10th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Czech Writer.

Rainer Maria Rilke is most famous for his poetry.

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Among writers, Rainer Maria Rilke ranks 119 out of 7,302. Before him are Václav Havel, Anatole France, Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, André Gide, Theodor Herzl, and Hafez. After him are Ismail I, Mario Vargas Llosa, Federico García Lorca, Muhammad Iqbal, Ivo Andrić, and Naguib Mahfouz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1875, Rainer Maria Rilke ranks 7. Before him are Carl Jung, Thomas Mann, Maurice Ravel, Aleister Crowley, Vallabhbhai Patel, and Syngman Rhee. After him are Albert Schweitzer, D. W. Griffith, Ibn Saud, Ferdinand Porsche, Jeanne Calment, and Mileva Marić. Among people deceased in 1926, Rainer Maria Rilke ranks 3. Before him are Claude Monet, and Antoni Gaudí. After him are Mehmed VI, Rudolf Christoph Eucken, Emperor Taishō, Harry Houdini, Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, Felix Dzerzhinsky, Olga Constantinovna of Russia, Camillo Golgi, and Sunjong of Korea.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Rainer Maria Rilke ranks 15 out of 1,200. Before him are Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor (1316), Bedřich Smetana (1824), Milan Kundera (1929), Oskar Schindler (1908), Alphonse Mucha (1860), and Václav Havel (1936). After him are Edmund Husserl (1859), Jan Žižka (1360), Bertha von Suttner (1843), Kurt Gödel (1906), Wilhelm Steinitz (1836), and John of Nepomuk (1350).

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Among WRITERS In Czechia

Among writers born in Czechia, Rainer Maria Rilke ranks 4. Before him are Franz Kafka (1883), Milan Kundera (1929), and Václav Havel (1936). After him are Karel Čapek (1890), Jaroslav Hašek (1883), Max Brod (1884), Milena Jesenská (1896), Bohumil Hrabal (1914), Franz Werfel (1890), Karl Kraus (1874), and Jaroslav Seifert (1901).

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