WRITER

Stefan Zweig

1881 - 1942

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Stefan Zweig ( ZWYGHE, SWYGHE; German: [ˈʃtɛfan t͡svaɪ̯k] or Austrian German: [t͡svaɪ̯g]; 28 November 1881 – 22 February 1942) was an Austrian writer. At the height of his literary career, in the 1920s and 1930s, he was one of the most widely translated and popular writers in the world. Zweig was raised in Vienna, Austria-Hungary. He wrote historical studies of famous literary figures, such as Honoré de Balzac, Charles Dickens, and Fyodor Dostoevsky in Drei Meister (1920; Three Masters), and decisive historical events in Decisive Moments in History (1927). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Stefan Zweig is the 69th most popular writer (down from 59th in 2019), the 13th most popular biography from Austria (down from 12th in 2019) and the most popular Austrian Writer.

Stefan Zweig was a prolific Austrian writer and journalist. He is most famous for his novel "Beware of Pity" and his autobiography "The World of Yesterday."

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Stefan Zweig ranks 69 out of 7,302Before him are Ayn Rand, Aeschylus, Bertolt Brecht, Selma Lagerlöf, Rabindranath Tagore, and Jorge Luis Borges. After him are Thomas Mann, Arthur Conan Doyle, Robert Frost, Romain Rolland, Charles Perrault, and Umberto Eco.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1881, Stefan Zweig ranks 5Before him are Pablo Picasso, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, Pope John XXIII, and Alexander Fleming. After him are Béla Bartók, Alexander Kerensky, Roger Martin du Gard, Lu Xun, Cecil B. DeMille, Anna Pavlova, and Enver Pasha. Among people deceased in 1942, Stefan Zweig ranks 1After him are Reinhard Heydrich, Janusz Korczak, Richard Willstätter, Edith Stein, José Raúl Capablanca, Jean Baptiste Perrin, William Henry Bragg, Bronisław Malinowski, Robert Musil, Walther von Reichenau, and Anton Drexler.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Stefan Zweig ranks 13 out of 1,424Before him are Marie Antoinette (1755), Franz Liszt (1811), Johann Strauss II (1825), Gustav Klimt (1862), Erwin Schrödinger (1887), and Arnold Schwarzenegger (1947). After him are Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889), Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor (1527), Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor (1459), Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria (1858), Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria (1863), and Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor (1741).

Among WRITERS In Austria

Among writers born in Austria, Stefan Zweig ranks 1After him are Shmuel Yosef Agnon (1888), Elfriede Jelinek (1946), Peter Handke (1942), Robert Musil (1880), 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).