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Stéphane Hessel

1917 - 2013

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Stéphane Frédéric Hessel (born Stefan Friedrich Kaspar Hessel; 20 October 1917 – 26 February 2013) was a French diplomat, ambassador, writer, concentration camp survivor, Resistance member and BCRA agent. Born German, he became a naturalised French citizen in 1939. He became an observer of the editing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948. In 2011 he was named by Foreign Policy magazine in its list of top global thinkers. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Stéphane Hessel is the 1,801st most popular writer (down from 1,492nd in 2019), the 1,965th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,585th in 2019) and the 113th most popular German Writer.

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Among writers, Stéphane Hessel ranks 1,801 out of 7,302. Before him are Juan Carlos Onetti, Gaius Julius Solinus, Yaşar Kemal, Slavenka Drakulić, Louis-Sébastien Mercier, and Li He. After him are Augusto Boal, Ion Luca Caragiale, Eduard Mörike, Stephen Crane, Minamoto no Sanetomo, and Paul Goodman.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1917, Stéphane Hessel ranks 100. Before him are Harold Garfinkel, Luis Carniglia, Irving Penn, Jânio Quadros, Alexander Schmorell, and Will Eisner. After him are William H. McNeill, Jean Rouch, Raymond Burr, László Szabó, Zhang Chunqiao, and Buddy Rich. Among people deceased in 2013, Stéphane Hessel ranks 105. Before him are Clive Burr, Dominique Venner, Pedro Rocha, Otfried Preußler, Joe Weider, and Prince Friso of Orange-Nassau. After him are Wolfgang Sawallisch, Álvaro Mutis, Dennis Farina, Mitja Ribičič, Édouard Molinaro, and Rosalía Mera.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Stéphane Hessel ranks 1,965 out of 7,253. Before him are Liudolf, Duke of Swabia (930), Margaret Sambiria (1230), Countess Palatine Elisabeth Auguste of Sulzbach (1721), Heinrich von Treitschke (1834), Eric Voegelin (1901), and Ernst Engel (1821). After him are Manfred von Ardenne (1907), Joachim Streich (1951), Karin Dor (1938), Reinhard Marx (1953), Eduard Mörike (1804), and Duchess Amalie in Bavaria (1865).

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Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Stéphane Hessel ranks 113. Before him are Augustus the Younger, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1579), Christian Friedrich Hebbel (1813), Ludwig Börne (1786), Friedrich Rückert (1788), Theodor Nöldeke (1836), and Handrij Zejler (1804). After him are Eduard Mörike (1804), Annette von Droste-Hülshoff (1797), Hans F. K. Günther (1891), Hanns Heinz Ewers (1871), Wilhelm Heinrich Wackenroder (1773), and Margarete Buber-Neumann (1901).

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