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OverviewAI-generated
Karl Kraus was an Austrian male author whose professional career began in 1897. He was born on April 28, 1874, and died on June 12, 1936. Kraus is associated with German audiobooks and has been referenced by 379 other encyclopedia articles.
His literary output includes works such as *Das deutsche Militärstrafverfahren*, *Die Dritte Walpurgisnacht*, *Die vereinbarung über die zuständigkeit der Gerichte*, *Ausgewählte Gedichte*, and *Demolirte Litteratur*. Open Library lists 96 works attributed to him, while Crossref records five and Europeana Sparql records four. Kraus also contributed quotes to Wikiquote, including statements on beauty, art, and culture.
Synthesized by Vinony from 20 facts across 8 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, Crossref, Wikiquote, MusicBrainz, Europeana Sparql, Open Library, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 96
Top works
- Das deutsche Militärstrafverfahren
- Die Dritte Walpurgisnacht
- Die vereinbarung über die zuständigkeit der Gerichte
- Ausgewählte Gedichte
- Demolirte Litteratur
via Open Library + Wikidata
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Austria
- Active from
- 1874-04-28
- Active to
- 1936-06-12
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 227
- Total plays
- 2,048
<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Karl+Kraus">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Standards and guidelines for the interpretation of sequence variants: a joint consensus recommendation of the American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics and the Association for Molecular Pathology
· 2015 · cited 29,113x
- Radiotherapy plus Concomitant and Adjuvant Temozolomide for Glioblastoma
· 2005 · cited 18,721x
- A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,783x
- An Overview of CMIP5 and the Experiment Design
· 2012 · cited 11,731x
- Minimal information for studies of extracellular vesicles 2018 (MISEV2018): a position statement of the International Society for Extracellular Vesicles and update of the MISEV2014 guidelines
· 2018 · cited 9,648x
via Crossref · CC0
Quotes
- “Everyone is stopped and waiting, maitre d's, hansom cab drivers and governments. Everyone's waiting for the end. Let's hope the apocalypse is pleasant, Your Highness.”
- “There are women who are not beautiful but only look that way.”
- “What is the Ninth Symphony compared to a Tin Pan Alley hit played on a hurdy-gurdy and a memory?”
- “Der Fortschritt feiert Pyrrhussiege über die Natur.”
- “Love and art do not embrace what is beautiful but what is made beautiful by this embrace.”
- “Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence.”
via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA
Works in European collections
4 objects attributed to Karl Kraus, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
~23 min read
Encyclopedic overview
Karl Kraus ( Austrian German: [kraʊs]; 28 April 1874 – 12 June 1936) was an Austrian writer and journalist, known as a satirist, essayist, aphorist, playwright and poet. He directed his satire at the press, German culture, and German and Austrian politics. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature three times.
Biography
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Karl Kraus” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.