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Robert Musil

1880 - 1942

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Robert Musil (Austrian German: [ˈroːbɛrt ˈmuːzɪl]; 6 November 1880 – 15 April 1942) was an Austrian philosophical writer. His unfinished novel, The Man Without Qualities (German: Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften), is generally considered to be one of the most important and influential modernist novels. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Robert Musil is the 308th most popular writer (down from 242nd in 2019), the 86th most popular biography from Austria (down from 62nd in 2019) and the 5th most popular Austrian Writer.

Robert Musil is most famous for his novel "The Man Without Qualities."

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Among writers, Robert Musil ranks 308 out of 7,302. Before him are Arthur Miller, Shams Tabrizi, Czesław Miłosz, Alberto Moravia, Chrétien de Troyes, and Ryūnosuke Akutagawa. After him are Claudius Aelianus, J. M. G. Le Clézio, J. M. Coetzee, Ismail Kadare, Herman Melville, and Max Brod.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1880, Robert Musil ranks 9. Before him are Guillaume Apollinaire, Alfred Wegener, Douglas MacArthur, Wilhelmina of the Netherlands, Fedor von Bock, and John Boyd Orr. After him are Oswald Spengler, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Franz Marc, Gideon Sundback, André Derain, and Ludwig Beck. Among people deceased in 1942, Robert Musil ranks 10. Before him are Richard Willstätter, Edith Stein, José Raúl Capablanca, Jean Baptiste Perrin, William Henry Bragg, and Bronisław Malinowski. After him are Walther von Reichenau, Anton Drexler, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Fritz Todt, Robert Bosch, and William G. Morgan.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Robert Musil ranks 86 out of 1,424. Before him are Alban Berg (1885), Fritz Lang (1890), Albert II of Germany (1397), Mariana of Austria (1634), Archduke Ludwig Viktor of Austria (1842), and Josef Stefan (1835). After him are Carl Czerny (1791), Ferdinand I of Bulgaria (1861), Josef Bican (1913), Christoph Waltz (1956), Maria Anna Mozart (1751), and Peter Drucker (1909).

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Among WRITERS In Austria

Among writers born in Austria, Robert Musil ranks 5. Before him are Stefan Zweig (1881), Shmuel Yosef Agnon (1888), Elfriede Jelinek (1946), and Peter Handke (1942). After him are Peter Drucker (1909), Arthur Schnitzler (1862), Paula Hitler (1896), Georg Trakl (1887), Hugo von Hofmannsthal (1874), Klaus Ebner (1964), and Walther von der Vogelweide (1170).

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