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Victor Klemperer

1881 - 1960

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Victor Klemperer (9 October 1881 – 11 February 1960) was a German literary scholar and diarist. His journals, published posthumously in Germany in 1995, detailed his life under the German Empire, the Weimar Republic, the fascist Third Reich, and the German Democratic Republic. Three volumes of his diaries have been published in English translations: I Shall Bear Witness, To the Bitter End, and The Lesser Evil. The first two, which cover the period of the Third Reich, have become standard sources and have been extensively quoted. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Victor Klemperer is the 5,298th most popular politician (down from 4,707th in 2019), the 288th most popular biography from Poland (down from 272nd in 2019) and the 68th most popular Polish Politician.

Victor Klemperer was a professor of French literature who was born in 1881 and died in 1960. He is most famous for his diaries which he wrote during the time he was in Nazi Germany.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Victor Klemperer ranks 5,298 out of 19,576. Before him are Princess Antoinette of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Prince Amedeo, Duke of Aosta, Kim Tok-hun, Bocchus I, Manuel Pinto da Costa, and Karel Schwarzenberg. After him are Prince Henry of Battenberg, Agnes of Austria, Andrew, Duke of Calabria, Bermudo III of León, Emperor Kōbun, and Danilo I, Prince of Montenegro.

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Among people born in 1881, Victor Klemperer ranks 60. Before him are Nikolai Myaskovsky, Ludwig Binswanger, Hakaru Hashimoto, Kim Kyu-sik, Giovanni Papini, and Franz Gürtner. After him are Max Pechstein, Günther Quandt, Vincenzo Peruggia, Augustin Bea, Patrick Ryan, and Ramón Grau. Among people deceased in 1960, Victor Klemperer ranks 41. Before him are John B. Kelly Sr., I. I. Chundrigar, Frank Lloyd, Ida Rubinstein, Dimitri Mitropoulos, and Hugo Alfvén. After him are Otoya Yamaguchi, Ethel Voynich, Beno Gutenberg, Mack Sennett, Jacques Becker, and Archduchess Elisabeth Amalie of Austria.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Victor Klemperer ranks 288 out of 1,694. Before him are Adam Stefan Sapieha (1867), Dieter Wisliceny (1911), Stanisława Walasiewicz (1911), Adam Czerniaków (1880), David Seymour (1911), and Mieczysław Weinberg (1919). After him are Leopold Infeld (1898), Robert Wiene (1873), Edward Gierek (1913), Józef Maria Hoene-Wroński (1776), Erich Fellgiebel (1886), and Gunderic (379).

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Among POLITICIANS In Poland

Among politicians born in Poland, Victor Klemperer ranks 68. Before him are Hans Modrow (1928), Aleksander Kwaśniewski (1954), Theresa Kunegunda Sobieska (1676), Franz Mehring (1846), Władysław I Herman (1043), and Dieter Wisliceny (1911). After him are Edward Gierek (1913), Gunderic (379), Bolesław II the Generous (1041), Siemomysł (922), Michał Kleofas Ogiński (1765), and Werner Naumann (1909).

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