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Adolph Diesterweg

1790 - 1866

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Friedrich Adolph Wilhelm Diesterweg (29 October 1790 in Siegen – 7 July 1866 in Berlin) was a German educator, thinker, and progressive liberal politician, who campaigned for the secularization of schools. He is said to be precursory to the reform of pedagogy. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Adolph Diesterweg has received more than 43,755 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Adolph Diesterweg is the 6,622nd most popular politician (down from 5,627th in 2019), the 1,796th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,579th in 2019) and the 520th most popular German Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Adolph Diesterweg ranks 6,622 out of 19,576. Before him are Chang of Goryeo, Joan of Kent, Mahmud Hotak, Bernard-René Jourdan de Launay, Marie Anne Mancini, and Fusako Shigenobu. After him are Raymond II, Count of Tripoli, Sergius I of Constantinople, Valerian Kuybyshev, Anna of Hohenstaufen, Akhmet Baitursynov, and Histiaeus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1790, Adolph Diesterweg ranks 15. Before him are Nicolas Chauvin, John Frederic Daniell, Leopold, Grand Duke of Baden, John Austin, Robert Stirling, and Marquis de Custine. After him are Gideon Mantell, Markos Botsaris, José Antonio Páez, William Parry, Leopold, Prince of Salerno, and Keisai Eisen. Among people deceased in 1866, Adolph Diesterweg ranks 11. Before him are Karl Ludwig Hencke, Tokugawa Iemochi, William Whewell, Hermann Goldschmidt, Chief Seattle, and Philipp Franz von Siebold. After him are Friedrich Rückert, Paul Gavarni, Thomas Hodgkin, Rikard Nordraak, Winfield Scott, and Alexander von Nordmann.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Adolph Diesterweg ranks 1,796 out of 7,253. Before him are Wilhelm Backhaus (1884), Philipp Mainländer (1841), Horst Schumann (1906), Oskar Gröning (1921), Frederick II, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel (1720), and Frederick IV, Elector Palatine (1574). After him are Carl David Tolmé Runge (1856), Christian Lorenz (1966), Augusta Marie of Holstein-Gottorp (1649), Frederick William, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1771), Ernst Nolte (1923), and Ernest Augustus, Crown Prince of Hanover (1845).

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Among POLITICIANS In Germany

Among politicians born in Germany, Adolph Diesterweg ranks 520. Before him are Wilhelm Zaisser (1893), Wilhelm Marr (1819), Christian I, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg (1568), Duchess Augusta of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1764), Frederick II, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel (1720), and Frederick IV, Elector Palatine (1574). After him are Augusta Marie of Holstein-Gottorp (1649), Frederick William, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1771), Friedrich Naumann (1860), George II, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt (1605), Charles Alexander, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1818), and Prince Louis Ferdinand of Prussia (1772).

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