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Christian Morgenstern

1871 - 1914

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Christian Otto Josef Wolfgang Morgenstern (6 May 1871 – 31 March 1914) was a German writer and poet from Munich. Morgenstern married Margareta Gosebruch von Liechtenstern on 7 March 1910. He worked for a while as a journalist in Berlin, but spent much of his life traveling through Germany, Switzerland, and Italy, primarily in a vain attempt to recover his health. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Christian Morgenstern has received more than 173,069 page views. His biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 35 in 2019). Christian Morgenstern is the 1,640th most popular writer (down from 1,440th in 2019), the 1,742nd most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,503rd in 2019) and the 111th most popular German Writer.

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  • 170k

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  • 57.73

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 36

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.42

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.19

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Christian Morgenstern ranks 1,640 out of 7,302. Before him are Péter Nádas, Ira Levin, Avraham Stern, Martin Gardner, Alphonse Allais, and Servius Sulpicius Rufus. After him are Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, Constantijn Huygens, Andreas Gryphius, Al-Hariri of Basra, Matteo Maria Boiardo, and Clodia Pulchra.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1871, Christian Morgenstern ranks 41. Before him are Willem Mengelberg, Gerardo Machado, Sergei Bulgakov, Zhang Jinghui, William McDougall, and Fedor Tokarev. After him are Stephen Crane, Doppo Kunikida, Jovan Dučić, Ovide Decroly, Mariano Fortuny, and Cesare Mori. Among people deceased in 1914, Christian Morgenstern ranks 34. Before him are Louis Couturat, Princess Adelgunde of Bavaria, John Tenniel, Joseph Swan, Anatoly Lyadov, and Jurji Zaydan. After him are Theodor Kittelsen, Theodor Lipps, Johann Wilhelm Hittorf, Giuseppe Mercalli, Georg II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen, and Julio Argentino Roca.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Christian Morgenstern ranks 1,742 out of 7,253. Before him are Andreas Osiander (1498), Marco Reus (1989), Leopold Gmelin (1788), Friedrich Wilhelm Freiherr von Bülow (1755), Adolf Hurwitz (1859), and Christian Oliver (1972). After him are Friedrich Christian, Margrave of Meissen (1893), Klaus Fischer (1949), Constantin von Tischendorf (1815), Princess Hildegard of Bavaria (1825), Uziel Gal (1923), and Manfred von Ardenne (1907).

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Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Christian Morgenstern ranks 111. Before him are Eduard Mörike (1804), Adolph Freiherr Knigge (1752), Gustav Landauer (1870), Uri Avnery (1923), Sebastian Haffner (1907), and Ludwig Börne (1786). After him are Martin Walser (1927), Basil Valentine (1394), Hans F. K. Günther (1891), Friedrich Melchior, Baron von Grimm (1723), Friedrich Rückert (1788), and Anthony Ulrich, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1633).

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