1752 - 1796
Adolph Franz Friedrich Ludwig Freiherr Knigge (16 October 1752 – 6 May 1796) was a German writer, Freemason, and a leading member of the Order of the Illuminati. Knigge was born in Bredenbeck (now a part of Wennigsen, Lower Saxony) in the Electorate of Hanover as a member of the lesser nobility. When he was barely eleven, his mother died, and when his father died three years later the teenager inherited a large debt. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Adolph Freiherr Knigge has received more than 241,155 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia. Adolph Freiherr Knigge is the 1,645th most popular writer (down from 1,354th in 2019), the 1,748th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,350th in 2019) and the 109th most popular German Writer.
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Among writers, Adolph Freiherr Knigge ranks 1,645 out of 5,755. Before him are Rainis, Robert Brasillach, Robert de Boron, Philippe de Commines, Petar Zrinski, and Eric Carle. After him are Dick Bruna, Terry Brooks, Augusto Boal, Theophylact of Ohrid, Nicander, and Lu You.
1865 - 1929
HPI: 56.73
Rank: 1,639
1909 - 1945
HPI: 56.73
Rank: 1,640
1110 - 1300
HPI: 56.72
Rank: 1,641
1447 - 1511
HPI: 56.72
Rank: 1,642
1621 - 1671
HPI: 56.72
Rank: 1,643
1929 - 2021
HPI: 56.70
Rank: 1,644
1752 - 1796
HPI: 56.70
Rank: 1,645
1927 - 2017
HPI: 56.70
Rank: 1,646
1944 - Present
HPI: 56.70
Rank: 1,647
1931 - 2009
HPI: 56.69
Rank: 1,648
1055 - 1107
HPI: 56.69
Rank: 1,649
250 BC - 170 BC
HPI: 56.69
Rank: 1,650
1125 - 1210
HPI: 56.68
Rank: 1,651
Among people born in 1752, Adolph Freiherr Knigge ranks 15. Before him are Jacques Roux, Friedrich Maximilian Klinger, Princess Friederike of Hesse-Darmstadt, Nguyễn Huệ, Sébastien Érard, and Infante Gabriel of Spain. After him are Duke Wilhelm in Bavaria, Betsy Ross, John Nash, Andrey Razumovsky, Niccolò Antonio Zingarelli, and Torii Kiyonaga. Among people deceased in 1796, Adolph Freiherr Knigge ranks 12. Before him are Princess Augusta Wilhelmine of Hesse-Darmstadt, Shahrokh Shah, Johann Daniel Titius, Charles of Saxony, Duke of Courland, Thomas Reid, and Pyotr Rumyantsev. After him are Prince Louis Charles of Prussia, Franz Anton Maulbertsch, Guillaume Thomas François Raynal, Velu Nachiyar, Jean-Marie Collot d'Herbois, and Alexandre-Théophile Vandermonde.
1752 - 1794
HPI: 59.64
Rank: 9
1752 - 1831
HPI: 58.86
Rank: 10
1752 - 1782
HPI: 57.73
Rank: 11
1752 - 1792
HPI: 57.73
Rank: 12
1752 - 1831
HPI: 57.51
Rank: 13
1752 - 1788
HPI: 57.29
Rank: 14
1752 - 1796
HPI: 56.70
Rank: 15
1752 - 1837
HPI: 56.54
Rank: 16
1752 - 1836
HPI: 56.31
Rank: 17
1752 - 1835
HPI: 55.67
Rank: 18
1752 - 1836
HPI: 55.07
Rank: 19
1752 - 1837
HPI: 54.34
Rank: 20
1752 - 1815
HPI: 53.77
Rank: 21
1765 - 1796
HPI: 60.10
Rank: 6
1734 - 1796
HPI: 57.60
Rank: 7
1729 - 1796
HPI: 57.46
Rank: 8
1733 - 1796
HPI: 57.28
Rank: 9
1710 - 1796
HPI: 57.15
Rank: 10
1725 - 1796
HPI: 56.75
Rank: 11
1752 - 1796
HPI: 56.70
Rank: 12
1773 - 1796
HPI: 54.93
Rank: 13
1724 - 1796
HPI: 54.87
Rank: 14
1713 - 1796
HPI: 54.72
Rank: 15
1730 - 1796
HPI: 54.69
Rank: 16
1749 - 1796
HPI: 54.63
Rank: 17
1735 - 1796
HPI: 53.95
Rank: 18
Among people born in Germany, Adolph Freiherr Knigge ranks 1,748 out of 6,142. Before him are Leo Geyr von Schweppenburg (1886), Oswald Achenbach (1827), Johann Ludwig Bach (1677), Johann Gottfried Walther (1684), Heino (1938), and Alfred Eisenstaedt (1898). After him are Hermann-Bernhard Ramcke (1889), Prince Francis Xavier of Saxony (1730), Johannes Sturm (1507), Christian Leopold von Buch (1774), Hans Staden (1525), and Johann VI, Count of Nassau-Dillenburg (1536).
1886 - 1974
HPI: 56.74
Rank: 1,742
1827 - 1905
HPI: 56.73
Rank: 1,743
1677 - 1731
HPI: 56.73
Rank: 1,744
1684 - 1748
HPI: 56.73
Rank: 1,745
1938 - Present
HPI: 56.71
Rank: 1,746
1898 - 1995
HPI: 56.70
Rank: 1,747
1752 - 1796
HPI: 56.70
Rank: 1,748
1889 - 1968
HPI: 56.70
Rank: 1,749
1730 - 1806
HPI: 56.70
Rank: 1,750
1507 - 1589
HPI: 56.69
Rank: 1,751
1774 - 1853
HPI: 56.68
Rank: 1,752
1525 - 1579
HPI: 56.67
Rank: 1,753
1536 - 1606
HPI: 56.67
Rank: 1,754
Among writers born in Germany, Adolph Freiherr Knigge ranks 109. Before him are Gustav Landauer (1870), Eduard Mörike (1804), Anton Praetorius (1560), Else Lasker-Schüler (1869), Marianne Weber (1870), and Lothar-Günther Buchheim (1918). After him are Wolfgang Borchert (1921), Jordan of Saxony (1190), Hanns Heinz Ewers (1871), Theodor Nöldeke (1836), Elvira Madigan (1867), and Margarete Buber-Neumann (1901).
1870 - 1919
HPI: 57.30
Rank: 103
1804 - 1875
HPI: 57.30
Rank: 104
1560 - 1613
HPI: 57.24
Rank: 105
1869 - 1945
HPI: 57.13
Rank: 106
1870 - 1954
HPI: 57.12
Rank: 107
1918 - 2007
HPI: 56.74
Rank: 108
1752 - 1796
HPI: 56.70
Rank: 109
1921 - 1947
HPI: 56.66
Rank: 110
1190 - 1237
HPI: 56.46
Rank: 111
1871 - 1943
HPI: 56.41
Rank: 112
1836 - 1930
HPI: 56.21
Rank: 113
1867 - 1889
HPI: 56.20
Rank: 114
1901 - 1989
HPI: 56.14
Rank: 115