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Barthold Heinrich Brockes

1680 - 1747

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Barthold Heinrich Brockes (September 22, 1680 – January 16, 1747) was a German poet. He was born in Hamburg and educated at the Gelehrtenschule des Johanneums. He studied jurisprudence at Halle, and after extensive travels in Italy, France and the Netherlands, settled in Hamburg in 1704. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Barthold Heinrich Brockes has received more than 47,831 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Barthold Heinrich Brockes is the 4,583rd most popular writer (down from 3,506th in 2019), the 4,121st most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,256th in 2019) and the 276th most popular German Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Barthold Heinrich Brockes ranks 4,583 out of 5,755Before him are Hans Nielsen Hauge, Eleanor Farjeon, Yurii Andrukhovych, Juan de la Cueva, George Mikes, and Yordan Yovkov. After him are Juan de Mena, Iakob Tsurtaveli, Chester Himes, Dante Spinotti, John O'Hara, and Alexander Abusch.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1680, Barthold Heinrich Brockes ranks 15Before him are Saliha Sultan, Princess Luise Dorothea of Prussia, Ephraim Chambers, Emanuele d'Astorga, Johann Baptist Zimmermann, and John Machin. After him are Philippe Néricault Destouches, Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville, and John Campbell, 2nd Duke of Argyll. Among people deceased in 1747, Barthold Heinrich Brockes ranks 18Before him are Philip Johan von Strahlenberg, Francesco Solimena, Claude Alexandre de Bonneval, Karl Leopold, Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Jean-Féry Rebel, and Andrey Osterman.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Barthold Heinrich Brockes ranks 4,121 out of 6,142Before him are Nicolaus Michael Oppel (1782), Arthur Rudolph (1906), Udo Beyer (1955), Ludwig Adolph Timotheus Radlkofer (1829), Gerhard Rohlfs (1892), and Albrecht Unsöld (1905). After him are Hanna Maron (1923), Max Raabe (1962), Susanne Lothar (1960), Lian Ross (1962), Heinrich von Gagern (1799), and Franz Josef Ruprecht (1814).

Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Barthold Heinrich Brockes ranks 276Before him are Peter Härtling (1933), Wolfgang Koeppen (1906), Karl Leberecht Immermann (1796), Johann Gottfried Seume (1763), Ludwig Thoma (1867), and Ludwig Bechstein (1801). After him are Hermann Kant (1926), Georg Calixtus (1586), Fritz von Unruh (1885), Friedrich Leopold zu Stolberg-Stolberg (1750), Christian Gotthilf Salzmann (1744), and Wilferd Madelung (1930).