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Christoph Martin Wieland

1733 - 1813

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Christoph Martin Wieland (German: [ˈviːlant]; 5 September 1733 – 20 January 1813) was a German poet and writer, representative of literary Rococo. He is best-remembered for having written the first Bildungsroman (Geschichte des Agathon), as well as the epic Oberon, which formed the basis for both Friederike Sophie Seyler's opera of the same name and Carl Maria von Weber's opera of the same name. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Christoph Martin Wieland has received more than 187,603 page views. His biography is available in 45 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 44 in 2019). Christoph Martin Wieland is the 988th most popular writer (down from 912th in 2019), the 977th most popular biography from Germany (down from 888th in 2019) and the 63rd most popular German Writer.

Christoph Martin Wieland was a German poet and writer who is most famous for his work Oberon, an epic poem about the fairy king of the same name.

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Notable Works

Wielands Briefwechsel
Authors
1963
Sämmtliche Werke
1794
Werke
1882
C. M. Wielands sämtliche Werke
2002
Oberon
Epic poetry, German
1785
Geschichte des Agathon
1766

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Christoph Martin Wieland ranks 988 out of 7,302. Before him are Will Durant, David Grossman, Aristarchus of Samothrace, Prudentius, Jean de Joinville, and Richard Matheson. After him are Aron Nimzowitsch, Assia Djebar, Pierre-Jean de Béranger, Waris Dirie, Corinna, and John Fowles.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1733, Christoph Martin Wieland ranks 4. Before him are Joseph Priestley, Victoire of France, and Magtymguly Pyragy. After him are Siraj ud-Daulah, Carsten Niebuhr, Hubert Robert, Jean-Charles de Borda, Charles of Saxony, Duke of Courland, Gottfried van Swieten, Daniel Solander, and Christoph Friedrich Nicolai. Among people deceased in 1813, Christoph Martin Wieland ranks 9. Before him are Józef Poniatowski, Jean Victor Marie Moreau, Empress Go-Sakuramachi, André Grétry, Gerhard von Scharnhorst, and Sophia Magdalena of Denmark. After him are Antoine-Augustin Parmentier, Tecumseh, Rose Bertin, George Shaw, Johann Baptist Wanhal, and Jean-Andoche Junot.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Christoph Martin Wieland ranks 977 out of 7,253. Before him are Wilhelm Kempff (1895), Johann Joachim Becher (1635), Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg (1795), Alfred Weber (1868), Franz Ziereis (1905), and Joseph Karl Stieler (1781). After him are Hardy Krüger (1928), Albert of Riga (1165), Countess Augusta Reuss of Ebersdorf (1757), Albert I, Duke of Bavaria (1336), Princess Marianne of the Netherlands (1810), and Frederick IV, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp (1671).

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Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Christoph Martin Wieland ranks 63. Before him are Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen (1622), W. G. Sebald (1944), Hans Sachs (1494), Kurt Eisner (1867), Tannhäuser (1205), and Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse (1868). After him are Hrotsvitha (935), Charles De Coster (1827), Emanuel Schikaneder (1751), Ernst Barlach (1870), Georg Kaiser (1878), and Alfred Brehm (1829).

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