CHESS PLAYER

Bernhard Horwitz

1807 - 1885

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Bernhard Horwitz (1807 in Neustrelitz – 1885 in London) was a German and British chess master, chess writer and chess composer. Horwitz was born in Neustrelitz and went to school in Berlin, where he studied art. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Bernhard Horwitz has received more than 37,016 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Bernhard Horwitz is the 139th most popular chess player (up from 150th in 2019), the 4,740th most popular biography from Germany (down from 4,306th in 2019) and the 10th most popular German Chess Player.

Memorability Metrics

  • 37k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 47.27

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.42

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.96

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Bernhard Horwitzs by language

Over the past year Bernhard Horwitz has had the most page views in the with 4,899 views, followed by Russian (1,135), and German (842). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Persian (80.43%), Breton (75.96%), and Latvian (62.07%)

Among CHESS PLAYERS

Among chess players, Bernhard Horwitz ranks 139 out of 461. Before him are István Csom, István Bilek, André Chéron, Boris Kostić, Borislav Ivkov, and Simen Agdestein. After him are Horatio Caro, Florin Gheorghiu, Artur Yusupov, Lev Alburt, Hermanis Matisons, and Gennadi Sosonko.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1807, Bernhard Horwitz ranks 45. Before him are Anna Russell, Luigi Palmieri, Johann Wilhelm Schirmer, Franz Xaver Fieber, Theodor Ludwig Wilhelm von Bischoff, and Jules Verreaux. After him are Wilford Woodruff, Robert McClure, Emily Donelson, Johan Sebastian Welhaven, Ira Aldridge, and John Greenleaf Whittier. Among people deceased in 1885, Bernhard Horwitz ranks 74. Before him are Wilhelm Camphausen, Irvin McDowell, Karamchand Gandhi, Gaudenzio Marconi, Joseph-Alfred Serret, and William Henry Vanderbilt. After him are Juan Bautista Topete, José Posada Herrera, Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury, Anthony W. Gardiner, Nísia Floresta, and Frederick Theodore Frelinghuysen.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Bernhard Horwitz ranks 4,740 out of 7,253. Before him are Johann Friedrich Höger (1877), Arthur Jonath (1909), Hanns Kräly (1884), Ernst Krebs (1906), Gustav Schuft (1878), and Angelique Kerber (1988). After him are Werner Peters (1918), Stefan Raab (1966), Martina Hellmann (1960), Charlotte Auerbach (1899), Princess Marie of Saxe-Altenburg (1854), and Hans Cieslarczyk (1937).

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Among CHESS PLAYERS In Germany

Among chess players born in Germany, Bernhard Horwitz ranks 10. Before him are Jean Dufresne (1829), Jacques Mieses (1865), Wolfgang Uhlmann (1935), Sonja Graf (1908), Tassilo von Heydebrand und der Lasa (1818), and Wolfgang Unzicker (1925). After him are Carl Mayet (1810), Hermann Pilnik (1914), Boris Gulko (1947), Aaron Alexandre (1766), Natalia Zhukova (1979), and Elisabeth Pähtz (1985).

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