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Anna Louisa Karsch

1722 - 1791

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Anna Louisa Karsch (1 December 1722 in Hammer, Silesia – 12 October 1791 in Berlin) was a German autodidact and poet from the Silesia region, known to her contemporaries as "Die Karschin" and "the German Sappho".: 619  She became the first German woman to "live from the proceeds of her own literary works.. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Anna Louisa Karsch has received more than 24,220 page views. Her biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Anna Louisa Karsch is the 5,632nd most popular writer, the 1,121st most popular biography from Poland and the 139th most popular Polish Writer.

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  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.95

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  • 2.60

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Neue Gedichte
2012
Gedichte
2012
Auserlesene Gedichte
2012

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Anna Louisa Karsch ranks 5,632 out of 7,302. Before her are Elvira Lindo, Henry van Dyke Jr., Pascal Lainé, Oliverio Girondo, Christoph Hein, and Juana Manuela Gorriti. After her are André Dhôtel, Wolfgang Hohlbein, Stephen Spender, Olavi Paavolainen, Karin Slaughter, and Jerry Falwell.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1722, Anna Louisa Karsch ranks 24. Before her are Nicolas Luckner, Heinrich Johann Nepomuk von Crantz, John Burgoyne, Petrus Camper, Princess Gisela Agnes of Anhalt-Köthen, and Princess Ulrike Friederike Wilhelmine of Hesse-Kassel. After her is Christopher Smart. Among people deceased in 1791, Anna Louisa Karsch ranks 19. Before her are Francesca Lebrun, Tomás de Iriarte y Oropesa, Johan Andreas Murray, Princess Frederica Caroline of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, Richard Price, and Catharine Macaulay. After her are Francis Hopkinson, and Benjamin Harrison V.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Anna Louisa Karsch ranks 1,121 out of 1,694. Before her are Adam Małysz (1977), Krzysztof Warzycha (1964), Krystyna Chojnowska-Liskiewicz (1936), Harry Winter (1914), Christoph Hein (1944), and Joachim Marx (1944). After her are Barbara Sobotta (1936), Stanisław Barańczak (1946), Władysław Rubin (1917), Gerard Wodarz (1913), Bronisław Malinowski (1951), and Willi Apel (1893).

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Among WRITERS In Poland

Among writers born in Poland, Anna Louisa Karsch ranks 139. Before her are Jan Lechoń (1899), Eva Kotchever (1891), Kazimierz Brandys (1916), Antoni Lange (1862), Lina Morgenstern (1830), and Christoph Hein (1944). After her are Stanisław Barańczak (1946), Willi Apel (1893), Antoni Słonimski (1895), Julia Hartwig (1921), Miron Białoszewski (1922), and Peter Hacks (1928).

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