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Augustus, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg

1772 - 1822

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Augustus, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg (full name: Emil Leopold August) (23 November 1772 — 17 May 1822), was a Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg, and the author of one of the first modern novels to treat of homoerotic love. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Augustus, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg has received more than 194,796 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Augustus, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg is the 2,899th most popular writer (down from 2,450th in 2019), the 3,035th most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,555th in 2019) and the 185th most popular German Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Augustus, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg ranks 2,899 out of 7,302. Before him are Francisco Ayala, Huseyn Javid, Léon Daudet, Herman J. Mankiewicz, Walter Pater, and Budd Schulberg. After him are Marie Corelli, Lev Rubinstein, Jean Richepin, Jean-Antoine de Baïf, K. Shivaram Karanth, and Salama Moussa.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1772, Augustus, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg ranks 26. Before him are Géraud Duroc, Mikhail Speransky, Anton Friedrich Justus Thibaut, Horace François Bastien Sébastiani de La Porta, Solomon II of Imereti, and Friedrich Arnold Brockhaus. After him are Gerhard von Kügelgen, Miguel Ricardo de Álava, Luke Howard, Friedrich Gilly, Burgravine Louise Isabelle of Kirchberg, and Sir William Congreve, 2nd Baronet. Among people deceased in 1822, Augustus, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg ranks 26. Before him are Bathilde d'Orléans, Platon Zubov, Dmitry Levitzky, Józef Wybicki, Kristjan Jaak Peterson, and Cheung Po Tsai. After him are Abd al-Rahman al-Jabarti, Edward Daniel Clarke, Duke Eugen of Württemberg, Hồ Xuân Hương, Frei Galvão, and Johann Gottlob Theaenus Schneider.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Augustus, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg ranks 3,035 out of 7,253. Before him are Princess Anna of Saxony (1836), Johann Melchior Molter (1696), John VII, Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1558), Theodoric of Freiberg (1250), Karl-Heinz Riedle (1965), and Heinrich von Brentano (1904). After him are Marcel Ophüls (1927), Carl Peters (1856), Peter Stein (1937), Karlheinz Förster (1958), Horst Szymaniak (1934), and Fritz Bleyl (1880).

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Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Augustus, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg ranks 185. Before him are Sebastian Franck (1499), Mina Witkojc (1893), Alice Schwarzer (1942), Malwida von Meysenbug (1816), Wolfgang Iser (1926), and Heinrich Vogeler (1872). After him are Joseph Görres (1776), Albert of Aix (1060), Ricarda Huch (1864), Alfred Andersch (1914), Johann Christoph Friedrich GutsMuths (1759), and Picander (1700).

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