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August Spies

1855 - 1887

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August Vincent Theodore Spies (, SPEES; December 10, 1855 – November 11, 1887) was an American upholsterer, radical labor activist, and newspaper editor. An anarchist, Spies was found guilty of conspiracy to commit murder following a bomb attack on police in an event remembered as the Haymarket affair. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of August Spies has received more than 203,929 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). August Spies is the 5,614th most popular writer (down from 4,879th in 2019), the 5,072nd most popular biography from Germany (down from 4,273rd in 2019) and the 334th most popular German Writer.

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  • 52.93

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.08

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.61

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, August Spies ranks 5,614 out of 7,302. Before him are Gyula Juhász, Howard Ashman, Gunnel Vallquist, Sun Axelsson, Ferreira Gullar, and Agnes von Krusenstjerna. After him are Snorri Hjartarson, Blas de Otero, Pietro Citati, József Bajza, Lin Carter, and David Benioff.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1855, August Spies ranks 97. Before him are Ludwig Ganghofer, Robert M. La Follette, Henry Nicholas Ridley, Juan Zorrilla de San Martín, William Friese-Greene, and Pierre Puiseux. After him are Clinton Hart Merriam, Edward Angle, Elena Maróthy-Šoltésová, John McKenna, Lidiya Tseraskaya, and Edward William Nelson. Among people deceased in 1887, August Spies ranks 55. Before him are August W. Eichler, Dorothea Dix, Spencer Fullerton Baird, José Rufino Echenique, Sarah Yorke Jackson, and Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden. After him are Semyon Nadson, Henry Ward Beecher, Joachim IV of Constantinople, Albert Parsons, Balfour Stewart, and Elihu B. Washburne.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, August Spies ranks 5,072 out of 7,253. Before him are Harald Irmscher (1946), Carl Goßler (1885), Volker Bouffier (1951), Georg Zacharias (1884), Johann Ludwig Krapf (1810), and Ilse Bing (1899). After him are Harry Benjamin (1885), Walther von Dyck (1856), Dieter Eilts (1964), Christian Gottfried Körner (1756), Hans Eichel (1941), and Konrad Weise (1951).

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Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, August Spies ranks 334. Before him are Gabriele Kuby (1944), Brigitte Reimann (1933), Ferdinand von Schirach (1964), Kerstin Gier (1966), Stefan Andres (1906), and Douglas Coupland (1961). After him are Wolfgang Hohlbein (1953), Peter Wohlleben (1964), H. A. Rey (1898), Walter Moers (1957), Erwin Strittmatter (1912), and Ralf König (1960).

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