WRITER

Charlotte Buff

1753 - 1828

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Charlotte Buff (11 January 1753, Wetzlar – 16 January 1828, Hanover) was a youthful acquaintance of the poet Goethe, who fell in love with her. She rejected him and instead married Johann Christian Kestner (1741–1800), vice-archivist and privy councillor to the Hanoverian court. The character of Charlotte, in Goethe's novel The Sorrows of Young Werther, is partly based on her. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Charlotte Buff has received more than 97,595 page views. Her biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Charlotte Buff is the 2,417th most popular writer, the 2,540th most popular biography from Germany and the 153rd most popular German Writer.

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  • 54.81

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.07

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.89

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Charlotte Buff ranks 2,417 out of 7,302. Before her are Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon, Antiochus Kantemir, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Sotion, Guillermo Cabrera Infante, and Vonda N. McIntyre. After her are Aelred of Rievaulx, Kate Chopin, Olaudah Equiano, Peter of Dusburg, Ugo Betti, and Noor Inayat Khan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1753, Charlotte Buff ranks 22. Before her are Jean-Pierre Blanchard, Pierre Victurnien Vergniaud, Josef Dobrovský, Countess Palatine Maria Anna of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld, Shaykh Ahmad, and François-Paul Brueys d'Aigalliers. After her are Sophia Albertina, Abbess of Quedlinburg, Matvei Platov, Ludwig von Cobenzl, Louis Marie de La Révellière-Lépeaux, Antoine de Rivarol, and Santiago de Liniers, 1st Count of Buenos Aires. Among people deceased in 1828, Charlotte Buff ranks 18. Before her are Carl Peter Thunberg, Charlotte, Princess Royal, William Hyde Wollaston, Sineperver Sultan, Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool, and Radama I. After her are Richard Parkes Bonington, Samuel Frederick Gray, James Edward Smith, Leandro Fernández de Moratín, Amalie of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld, and Gilbert Stuart.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Charlotte Buff ranks 2,540 out of 7,253. Before her are Heinrich Christian Schumacher (1780), Ludwig Adolf Wilhelm von Lützow (1782), Elwin Bruno Christoffel (1829), Heinrich Rubens (1865), Leopold IV, Duke of Anhalt (1794), and Friedrich Kasimir Medikus (1736). After her are Herms Niel (1888), Countess Maria Louise Albertine of Leiningen-Dagsburg-Falkenburg (1729), Julius Klaproth (1783), Sebald Beham (1500), Axel Rudi Pell (1960), and Walther Meissner (1882).

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Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Charlotte Buff ranks 153. Before her are Wieland Wagner (1917), Solomon Perel (1925), Berthold Auerbach (1812), Armin T. Wegner (1886), Jakub Bart-Ćišinski (1856), and Edith Hamilton (1867). After her are Johann Karl August Musäus (1735), Gottschalk of Orbais (805), Rolf Hochhuth (1931), Christian Friedrich Daniel Schubart (1739), Wilhelm Raabe (1831), and Ursula Kuczynski (1907).

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