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Carl Spitteler

1845 - 1924

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Carl Friedrich Georg Spitteler (24 April 1845 – 29 December 1924) was a Swiss poet who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1919 "in special appreciation of his epic Olympian Spring". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Carl Spitteler has received more than 140,825 page views. His biography is available in 77 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 74 in 2019). Carl Spitteler is the 293rd most popular writer (down from 273rd in 2019), the 22nd most popular biography from Switzerland and the 2nd most popular Swiss Writer.

Carl Spitteler was a Swiss poet who was most famous for his epic poem, "Olympische Gedichte" (Olympian Poems).

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  • 77

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 17.69

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.97

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Extramundana
1883
Imago
1906
Lachende Wahrheiten
1898
Olympischer Frühling
1900
Prometheus und Epimetheus
1906
Meine frühesten Erlebnisse
1920

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Carl Spitteler ranks 293 out of 7,302. Before him are Philip K. Dick, Marcus Terentius Varro, Gerhart Hauptmann, Emily Dickinson, Arthur C. Clarke, and Pearl S. Buck. After him are Colette, Sayyid Qutb, Anne Brontë, Jon Fosse, Heinrich von Kleist, and Claude Simon.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1845, Carl Spitteler ranks 10. Before him are Georg Cantor, George I of Greece, Gabriel Lippmann, Gabriel Fauré, Élie Metchnikoff, and Amadeo I of Spain. After him are Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran, Ludwig III of Bavaria, Abai Qunanbaiuly, Nikola Pašić, Edmond James de Rothschild, and Paul Vidal de La Blache. Among people deceased in 1924, Carl Spitteler ranks 11. Before him are Woodrow Wilson, Joseph Conrad, Louis Sullivan, Alfred Marshall, Gabriel Fauré, and Archduchess Marie Valerie of Austria. After him are Frances Hodgson Burnett, George Mallory, Ferdinand Cheval, Ferruccio Busoni, Robert Nivelle, and Eleonora Duse.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Carl Spitteler ranks 22 out of 1,015. Before him are Johanna Spyri (1827), Francesco Borromini (1599), Charles Édouard Guillaume (1861), Johann Bernoulli (1667), Alberto Giacometti (1901), and Albert Hofmann (1906). After him are Élie Ducommun (1833), Bruno Ganz (1941), Arnold Böcklin (1827), Conrad Gessner (1516), Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1921), and Jacob Burckhardt (1818).

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Among WRITERS In Switzerland

Among writers born in Switzerland, Carl Spitteler ranks 2. Before him are Johanna Spyri (1827). After him are Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1921), Erich von Däniken (1935), Karl Barth (1886), Robert Walser (1878), Alejo Carpentier (1904), Johann Ludwig Burckhardt (1784), Max Frisch (1911), Johann Kaspar Lavater (1741), Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz (1878), and Gottfried Keller (1819).

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