WRITER

Colmar Freiherr von der Goltz

1843 - 1916

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Wilhelm Leopold Colmar Freiherr von der Goltz (12 August 1843 – 19 April 1916), also known as Goltz Pasha, was a Prussian field marshal and military writer. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Colmar Freiherr von der Goltz has received more than 250,908 page views. His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). Colmar Freiherr von der Goltz is the 838th most popular writer (up from 859th in 2019), the 278th most popular biography from Russia (up from 307th in 2019) and the 31st most popular Russian Writer.

Colmar Freiherr von der Goltz was a German military officer and diplomat. He is most famous for his military campaigns in the Russo-Japanese War, the First World War, and the Turkish War of Independence.

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Notable Works

Jena to Eylau
Eylau, Battle of, Bagrationovsk, Russia, 1807
1913

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Colmar Freiherr von der Goltz ranks 838 out of 7,302. Before him are John Bunyan, Gerard of Cremona, Bacchylides, Adunis, Dubravka Ugrešić, and Thietmar of Merseburg. After him are Tibor Sekelj, Ingeborg Bachmann, Miroslav Krleža, Julian Barnes, Vittoria Colonna, and Robert van Gulik.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1843, Colmar Freiherr von der Goltz ranks 14. Before him are Louis Renault, Henry James, William McKinley, Gabriel Tarde, Elisabeth of Wied, and Duchess Mathilde Ludovika in Bavaria. After him are Nicholas Alexandrovich, Tsesarevich of Russia, Richard Avenarius, Princess Maria Annunciata of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Benito Pérez Galdós, Oscar Montelius, and Walther Flemming. Among people deceased in 1916, Colmar Freiherr von der Goltz ranks 30. Before him are Émile Verhaeren, Charles Taze Russell, Ivan Franko, Max Reger, Eduard Strauss, and Vilhelm Hammershøi. After him are Gaston Maspero, Torakusu Yamaha, Rubén Darío, Percival Lowell, Gérard Encausse, and Jean Webster.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Colmar Freiherr von der Goltz ranks 278 out of 3,761. Before him are Lyudmila Putina (1958), Princess Irina Alexandrovna of Russia (1895), Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich of Russia (1856), Viktor Chernomyrdin (1938), Ramzan Kadyrov (1976), and Vasily Vereshchagin (1842). After him are Andrei Grechko (1903), Aleksandr Dugin (1962), Varlam Shalamov (1907), Oleg Penkovsky (1919), Eugen Sandow (1867), and Nicholas Alexandrovich, Tsesarevich of Russia (1843).

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Among WRITERS In Russia

Among writers born in Russia, Colmar Freiherr von der Goltz ranks 31. Before him are Ivan Goncharov (1812), Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy (1883), Ivan Krylov (1769), Arthur Adamov (1908), Alexander Blok (1880), and Alexander Litvinenko (1962). After him are Varlam Shalamov (1907), Viktor Shklovsky (1893), Yevgeny Yevtushenko (1933), Alexander Griboyedov (1795), Nikolay Karamzin (1766), and Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovich of Russia (1858).

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