WRITER

Bettina von Arnim

1785 - 1859

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Bettina von Arnim (the Countess of Arnim) (4 April 1785 – 20 January 1859), born Elisabeth Catharina Ludovica Magdalena Brentano, was a German writer and novelist. Bettina (or Bettine) Brentano was a writer, publisher, composer, singer, visual artist, an illustrator, patron of young talent, and a social activist. She was the archetype of the Romantic era's zeitgeist and the crux of many creative relationships of canonical artistic figures. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Bettina von Arnim has received more than 236,680 page views. Her biography is available in 44 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 43 in 2019). Bettina von Arnim is the 690th most popular writer (up from 780th in 2019), the 651st most popular biography from Germany (up from 759th in 2019) and the 38th most popular German Writer.

Bettina von Arnim is most famous for her correspondence with Goethe and for her novel, "The Enchanted April."

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    Languages Editions (L)

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    Effective Languages (L*)

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    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Bettina von Arnim ranks 690 out of 7,302. Before her are Jacinto Benavente, Claudian, Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy, Kang Youwei, Jean Froissart, and Truman Capote. After her are Carlos Fuentes, Francesca da Rimini, Sri Chinmoy, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Multatuli, and Abu al-Ghazi Bahadur.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1785, Bettina von Arnim ranks 6. Before her are Louis XVII of France, Mahmud II, Jacob Grimm, Karl Drais, and Alessandro Manzoni. After her are Lin Zexu, Claude-Louis Navier, Thomas De Quincey, Prince Ferdinand of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Pierre Louis Dulong, and John James Audubon. Among people deceased in 1859, Bettina von Arnim ranks 12. Before her are Carl Ritter, John Vianney, Wilhelm Grimm, Josip Jelačić, Ferdinand II of the Two Sicilies, and Washington Irving. After her are Louis Spohr, Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna of Russia, Archduke John of Austria, Thomas De Quincey, John Brown, and Stephanie of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Bettina von Arnim ranks 651 out of 7,253. Before her are Ludwig Stumpfegger (1910), Hasso von Manteuffel (1897), John of Saxony (1801), Hans-Joachim Marseille (1919), Herbert Kroemer (1928), and Magda Schneider (1909). After her are Werner Forssmann (1904), Werner Mölders (1913), Andreas Baader (1943), Carl Gustav Hempel (1905), Gerhard Ertl (1936), and Ottmar Hitzfeld (1949).

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Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Bettina von Arnim ranks 38. Before her are Erich Kästner (1899), Elisabeth of Wied (1843), Dietrich Eckart (1868), Bert Hellinger (1925), August Wilhelm Schlegel (1767), and Ludwig Tieck (1773). After her are Hugo Ball (1886), Georg Büchner (1813), Clemens Brentano (1778), Ulrich von Hutten (1488), Wilhelm Hauff (1802), and Marie d'Agoult (1805).

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