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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 50,763 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Barthold Heinrich Brockes is the 4,115th most popular writer (up from 4,568th in 2019), the 4,091st most popular biography from Germany (up from 4,108th in 2019) and the 251st most popular German Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Barthold Heinrich Brockes ranks 4,115 out of 7,302. Before him are Marie-Claire Blais, Mona Simpson, Johann Georg von Hahn, Lisa Tetzner, Ngaio Marsh, and Ō no Yasumaro. After him are Cemal Süreya, Ken Adam, Maximilian Harden, Peter Cheyney, Musa Anter, and Robert Rozhdestvensky.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1680, Barthold Heinrich Brockes ranks 16. Before him are Bulleh Shah, Princess Luise Dorothea of Prussia, Johann Baptist Zimmermann, John Machin, Ephraim Chambers, and Emanuele d'Astorga. After him are Angelo Maria Querini, 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 21. Before him are Jean-Féry Rebel, Claude Alexandre de Bonneval, Johann Matthias von der Schulenburg, Giulia Lama, Andrey Osterman, and Princess Sophie Charlotte of Brandenburg-Bayreuth. After him is Johann Jacob Dillenius.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Barthold Heinrich Brockes ranks 4,091 out of 7,253. Before him are Johann Andreas Wagner (1797), Johann Georg von Hahn (1811), Lisa Tetzner (1894), Uschi Glas (1944), Kurt Blome (1894), and Amelia of Nassau-Weilburg (1776). After him are Ken Adam (1921), Ludwig Diels (1874), Maximilian Harden (1861), Peter Joseph Lenné (1789), Walter Momper (1945), and Irmgard Möller (1947).

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Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Barthold Heinrich Brockes ranks 251. Before him are Theodor Plievier (1892), James Krüss (1926), Duchess Elisabeth Sophie of Mecklenburg (1613), Emanuel Geibel (1815), Johann Georg von Hahn (1811), and Lisa Tetzner (1894). After him are Ken Adam (1921), Maximilian Harden (1861), Brigitte Hamann (1940), Detlev von Liliencron (1844), Johann von Rist (1607), and Carl Sternheim (1878).

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