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Christian Fürchtegott Gellert

1715 - 1769

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Christian Fürchtegott Gellert (4 July 1715 – 13 December 1769) was a German poet, one of the forerunners of the golden age of German literature that was ushered in by Lessing. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Christian Fürchtegott Gellert has received more than 82,627 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Christian Fürchtegott Gellert is the 2,530th most popular writer (down from 2,465th in 2019), the 2,674th most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,576th in 2019) and the 163rd most popular German Writer.

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    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Christian Fürchtegott Gellert ranks 2,530 out of 7,302. Before him are Margaret Fuller, Heinrich Hoffmann, John Edward Williams, John Mandeville, Jung Chang, and Heinz G. Konsalik. After him are André Pieyre de Mandiargues, Badi' al-Zaman al-Hamadani, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Ottavio Rinuccini, Nima Yooshij, and Mkhitar Sebastatsi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1715, Christian Fürchtegott Gellert ranks 12. Before him are Charles, Prince of Soubise, Johann Gottfried Bernhard Bach, Georg Christoph Wagenseil, Victor de Riqueti, marquis de Mirabeau, Dorothea Erxleben, and Ewald Christian von Kleist. After him are William Watson, Jean-Baptiste Vaquette de Gribeauval, Johann Gottlob Leidenfrost, François-Joachim de Pierre de Bernis, Pierre Charles Le Monnier, and Jean-Étienne Guettard. Among people deceased in 1769, Christian Fürchtegott Gellert ranks 5. Before him are Pope Clement XIII, Luqman, Pontiac, and Hakuin Ekaku. After him are Vasily Trediakovsky, and Giambattista Lolli.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Christian Fürchtegott Gellert ranks 2,674 out of 7,253. Before him are Princess Luise Dorothea of Prussia (1680), Friedrich Anton Wilhelm Miquel (1811), Bernd Bransch (1944), Heinrich Hoffmann (1809), Ernst II, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg (1871), and Heinz G. Konsalik (1921). After him are Karl-Josef Rauber (1934), Pam Ferris (1948), Count Palatine Francis Louis of Neuburg (1664), George Dzundza (1945), Valerius Cordus (1515), and Friedrich Merz (1955).

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Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Christian Fürchtegott Gellert ranks 163. Before him are Christian Friedrich Daniel Schubart (1739), Wilhelm Raabe (1831), Ursula Kuczynski (1907), Stefan Heym (1913), Heinrich Hoffmann (1809), and Heinz G. Konsalik (1921). After him are Dorothea von Schlegel (1764), George Mosse (1918), Wilhelm Worringer (1881), Friedrich Spee (1591), Johann Froben (1460), and Karl Gutzkow (1811).

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