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Andreas Gryphius

1616 - 1664

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Andreas Gryphius (German: Andreas Greif; 2 October 1616 – 16 July 1664) was a German poet and playwright. With his eloquent sonnets, which contains "The Suffering, Frailty of Life and the World", he is considered one of the most important Baroque poets of the Germanosphere. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Andreas Gryphius has received more than 101,535 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 31 in 2019). Andreas Gryphius is the 1,643rd most popular writer (up from 1,650th in 2019), the 364th most popular biography from Poland (down from 355th in 2019) and the 34th most popular Polish Writer.

Andreas Gryphius was a German poet and playwright. He is most famous for his play "The Robbers," which is about a group of young men who rebel against the established order.

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  • 57.72

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  • 32

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.75

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.91

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Absurda comica, oder, Herr Peter Squenz
1908
Verlibtes Gespenste
German drama
1660
Carolus Stuardus
1955
Catharina von Georgien
Drama
1928
Werke in drei Ba nden mit Erga nzungsband ..
1961
Trauerspiele
Accessible book
1663

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Andreas Gryphius ranks 1,643 out of 7,302. Before him are Martin Gardner, Alphonse Allais, Servius Sulpicius Rufus, Christian Morgenstern, Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, and Constantijn Huygens. After him are Al-Hariri of Basra, Matteo Maria Boiardo, Clodia Pulchra, A. S. Byatt, Maria Valtorta, and Theodore Sturgeon.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1616, Andreas Gryphius ranks 8. Before him are Ferdinand Bol, Carlo Dolci, Johann Jakob Froberger, Anne Gonzaga, Thomas Bartholin, and Christina Magdalena of the Palatinate-Zweibrücken. After him are Sébastien Bourdon, François de Vendôme, duc de Beaufort, Eustache Le Sueur, Kuzma Minin, Caesar van Everdingen, and Anna de' Medici, Archduchess of Austria. Among people deceased in 1664, Andreas Gryphius ranks 4. Before him are Francisco de Zurbarán, Abu al-Ghazi Bahadur, and Miklós Zrínyi. After him are Ivan Bohun, Ivan Vyhovsky, Archduke Charles Joseph of Austria, Françoise Madeleine d'Orléans, Maria Cunitz, Henry II, Duke of Guise, William Frederick, Prince of Nassau-Dietz, and Jan Janssonius.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Andreas Gryphius ranks 364 out of 1,694. Before him are Józef Elsner (1769), Hugo Steinhaus (1887), Tadeusz Kantor (1915), Friedrich Wilhelm, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg (1785), Roman Ingarden (1893), and Avraham Stern (1907). After him are Lukas Podolski (1985), Ludwig Gumplowicz (1838), Kuno Fischer (1824), Arthur Greiser (1897), Emin Pasha (1840), and Martin Opitz (1597).

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Among WRITERS In Poland

Among writers born in Poland, Andreas Gryphius ranks 34. Before him are Georg Heym (1887), Sławomir Mrożek (1930), Fritz Gerlich (1883), Jerzy Kosiński (1933), Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz (1885), and Avraham Stern (1907). After him are Martin Opitz (1597), Stanisław Wyspiański (1869), I. L. Peretz (1852), Stanisław Przybyszewski (1868), Uri Orlev (1931), and Izabela Czartoryska (1746).

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