WRITER

Alfred Brehm

1829 - 1884

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Alfred Edmund Brehm (German pronunciation: [ˈalfʁeːt ˈʔɛtmʊnt ˈbʁeːm]; 2 February 1829 – 11 November 1884) was a German zoologist, writer, director of zoological gardens and the son of Christian Ludwig Brehm, a famous pastor and ornithologist. Through the book title Brehms Tierleben, which he co-authored with Eduard Pechuël-Loesche, Wilhelm Haacke, and Richard Schmidtlein, his name became a household word for popular zoological literature. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alfred Brehm has received more than 69,087 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 31 in 2019). Alfred Brehm is the 1,097th most popular writer (down from 1,051st in 2019), the 1,097th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,040th in 2019) and the 69th most popular German Writer.

Alfred Brehm is most famous for his book "The Life of Animals," which was published in 1864. The book is a comprehensive collection of information about animals and their habits.

Memorability Metrics

  • 69k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 60.97

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 32

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.16

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.39

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Brehms thierleben, allgemeine kunde des thierreichs
Zoology, Accessible book, Animal behavior
1876
Brehms Thierleben
Zoology, Animal behavior
1876
Merveilles de la nature
Animal behavior, Ethnology, Zoology
1878
Brehms Tierleben
Zoology, Animal behavior, Accessible book
1890
Illustrites thierleben
Animal behavior, Zoology
1864
Tierleben
Zoology, Animal behavior
1911

Page views of Alfred Brehms by language

Over the past year Alfred Brehm has had the most page views in the with 18,791 views, followed by Russian (8,763), and English (8,151). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Catalan (89.52%), Latin (69.29%), and Belarusian (32.19%)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Alfred Brehm ranks 1,097 out of 7,302. Before him are Pierre Louÿs, Dositej Obradović, Tadeusz Mazowiecki, Fernando Arrabal, Michael Connelly, and Jean Moréas. After him are Cees Nooteboom, Yosano Akiko, John William Polidori, Leonid Andreyev, Andrei Bely, and Bhāsa.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1829, Alfred Brehm ranks 12. Before him are Anton Rubinstein, John Everett Millais, Auguste Beernaert, Philip Sclater, Asaph Hall, and Theodor Billroth. After him are Anselm Feuerbach, Adolf Eugen Fick, Ranavalona II, Elizabeth Siddal, Tự Đức, and Hon'inbō Shūsaku. Among people deceased in 1884, Alfred Brehm ranks 14. Before him are Paul Morphy, Jean-Baptiste Dumas, Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany, Hermann Kolbe, Fanny Elssler, and Charles Adolphe Wurtz. After him are Karl Richard Lepsius, Allan Pinkerton, Hans Makart, Alexander, Prince of Orange, Jules Bastien-Lepage, and Infanta Maria Anna of Portugal.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Alfred Brehm ranks 1,097 out of 7,253. Before him are Richard, 6th Prince of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg (1934), Carl Stamitz (1745), Sophie Amalie of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1628), Ernest I, Duke of Saxe-Gotha (1601), Karl-Heinz Schnellinger (1939), and Max Klinger (1857). After him are Philip Johan von Strahlenberg (1676), Louis II, Duke of Bavaria (1229), Robert Michels (1876), Wilhelm Gustloff (1895), Countess Palatine Dorothea Sophie of Neuburg (1670), and Charles I Louis, Elector Palatine (1617).

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Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Alfred Brehm ranks 69. Before him are Christoph Martin Wieland (1733), Hrotsvitha (935), Charles De Coster (1827), Emanuel Schikaneder (1751), Ernst Barlach (1870), and Georg Kaiser (1878). After him are Ernst Hanfstaengl (1887), Marie of Cleves, Duchess of Orléans (1426), August von Kotzebue (1761), Friedrich Maximilian Klinger (1752), Hans Magnus Enzensberger (1929), and Gottfried Benn (1886).

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