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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 186,856 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. August Spies is the 4,896th most popular writer (down from 3,095th in 2019), the 4,287th most popular biography from Germany and the 287th most popular German Writer.

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  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.35

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.37

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, August Spies ranks 4,896 out of 5,755. Before him are Aleksey Pleshcheyev, Josip Jurčič, Giovanni Arpino, Albert Mol, Maria Aurèlia Capmany, and Sergey Gorodetsky. After him are Christian Matras, Enrique Gaspar y Rimbau, Tom Peters, Ted Chiang, Henriette Roland Holst, and Edward Rutherfurd.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1855, August Spies ranks 81. Before him are Josiah Royce, Caroline Rémy de Guebhard, Alfred Ewing, Emil Paur, Nataliya Kobrynska, and Henry Nicholas Ridley. After him are Juan Zorrilla de San Martín, Ludwig Ganghofer, Pierre Puiseux, Clinton Hart Merriam, Olive Schreiner, and Robert M. La Follette. Among people deceased in 1887, August Spies ranks 45. Before him are Ferdinand Johann Wiedemann, Julius von Haast, Mikhail Katkov, Fran Levstik, E. Marlitt, and Peder Balke. After him are John Taylor, Spencer Fullerton Baird, Semyon Nadson, George Alexander Macfarren, Sarah Yorke Jackson, and José Rufino Echenique.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, August Spies ranks 4,287 out of 6,142. Before him are Olaf Ludwig (1960), Ilse Bing (1899), Gloria, Princess of Thurn and Taxis (1960), Heide Rosendahl (1947), Carsten Jancker (1974), and Carl Koldewey (1837). After him are Max Schöne (1880), Kurt Ahrens Jr. (1940), Johann Friedrich Klotzsch (1805), Hilde Schrader (1910), Mario Basler (1968), and Alice Weidel (1979).

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Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, August Spies ranks 287. Before him are Christian Gotthilf Salzmann (1744), Wilferd Madelung (1930), E. Marlitt (1825), Jakob van Hoddis (1887), Günter Kunert (1929), and Joseph Meyer (1796). After him are Horst Faas (1933), Adolf Bartels (1862), Günther Jauch (1956), Ulrich Plenzdorf (1934), Ralph Giordano (1923), and Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (1927).

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