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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 181,147 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Augustus, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg is the 2,458th most popular writer (up from 2,995th in 2019), the 2,558th most popular biography from Germany (up from 2,888th in 2019) and the 157th most popular German Writer.

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    Languages Editions (L)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Augustus, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg ranks 2,458 out of 5,755. Before him are Terry Eagleton, Barbara von Krüdener, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Ada Negri, Uri Orlev, and John Barth. After him are Savitri Devi, Neil Simon, Roberto Calasso, M. Karunanidhi, Chittaranjan Das, and Jim Thompson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1772, Augustus, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg ranks 24. Before him are Géraud Duroc, Archduke Alexander Leopold of Austria, Anton Friedrich Justus Thibaut, Horace François Bastien Sébastiani de La Porta, Mikhail Speransky, and Tarrare. After him are Hồ Xuân Hương, Friedrich Arnold Brockhaus, Luke Howard, Sir William Congreve, 2nd Baronet, Vicente López Portaña, and Miguel Ricardo de Álava. Among people deceased in 1822, Augustus, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg ranks 22. Before him are Jean-Robert Argand, Sophie de Condorcet, Platon Zubov, Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh, Cheung Po Tsai, and Dmitry Levitzky. After him are Bathilde d'Orléans, Slimane of Morocco, Duke Eugen of Württemberg, Józef Wybicki, Hồ Xuân Hương, and Edward Daniel Clarke.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Augustus, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg ranks 2,558 out of 6,142. Before him are Friedrich Karl Arnold Schwassmann (1870), Hans Tilkowski (1935), Helmut Jahn (1940), Anne Eleonore of Hesse-Darmstadt (1601), Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld (1794), and Gisela of Burgundy (950). After him are Adam Müller (1779), Arno Peters (1916), Walter Frentz (1907), Johann Melchior Molter (1696), Gertrude of Süpplingenburg (1115), and Princess Henriëtte Amalia of Anhalt-Dessau (1666).

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Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Augustus, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg ranks 157. Before him are Unica Zürn (1916), Friedrich Spee (1591), Wilhelm Raabe (1831), Gottschalk of Orbais (805), Cornelia Funke (1958), and Friedrich Melchior, Baron von Grimm (1723). After him are Carl Zuckmayer (1896), Jakub Bart-Ćišinski (1856), Christian Fürchtegott Gellert (1715), Heinrich Hoffmann (1809), Ursula Kuczynski (1907), and Mina Witkojc (1893).

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