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Rudolf Rocker

1873 - 1958

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Johann Rudolf Rocker (German: [ˈʁɔkɐ]; March 25, 1873 – September 19, 1958) was a German anarchist writer and activist. He was born in Mainz to an artisan family. His father died when he was a child, and his mother when he was in his teens, so he spent some time in an orphanage. As a youth he worked as a cabin boy on river boats and was then apprenticed as a typographer. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Rudolf Rocker is the 2,232nd most popular writer (down from 2,011th in 2019), the 2,414th most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,148th in 2019) and the 146th most popular German Writer.

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Among writers, Rudolf Rocker ranks 2,232 out of 7,302. Before him are Jorge Manrique, Arkady Gaidar, Rahel Varnhagen, Frédéric Ozanam, Joseph Kessel, and Suzanne Collins. After him are Nils-Aslak Valkeapää, Claude Farrère, Nina Berberova, Pierre Klossowski, Clive Barker, and Wanda Wasilewska.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1873, Rudolf Rocker ranks 75. Before him are Moisei Uritsky, Elena Stasova, Sidney Reilly, Jukums Vācietis, Alexey Shchusev, and Joseph Paul-Boncour. After him are Hasan Prishtina, Richard Wilhelm, Sante Geronimo Caserio, Kyōka Izumi, Auguste Chevalier, and Carl Flesch. Among people deceased in 1958, Rudolf Rocker ranks 61. Before him are Peter Collins, Grigory Petrovsky, Ludwig Crüwell, Douglas Mawson, Oscar Torp, and Ernest Jones. After him are Viktor Schauberger, José Miaja, The Boswell Sisters, Joseph Klausner, Vítězslav Nezval, and Ronald Colman.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Rudolf Rocker ranks 2,415 out of 7,253. Before him are Jens Böhrnsen (1949), Julius, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1528), Joseph Weizenbaum (1923), Joseph Dietzgen (1828), Otto Kuntze (1843), and Rahel Varnhagen (1771). After him are Dorothea Erxleben (1715), Hannelore Kohl (1933), Christoph, Duke of Württemberg (1515), Arnold Ruge (1802), Hans Tilkowski (1935), and Friedrich von Schmidt (1825).

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Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Rudolf Rocker ranks 146. Before him are Carl Zuckmayer (1896), Erich Mühsam (1878), Judith Kerr (1923), Wilhelm Raabe (1831), Duchess Elisabeth Sophie of Mecklenburg (1613), and Rahel Varnhagen (1771). After him are Karlheinz Deschner (1924), Uri Avnery (1923), Fred Uhlman (1901), Sebastian Haffner (1907), Jurij Brězan (1916), and Berthold Auerbach (1812).

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