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Dorothea von Schlegel

1764 - 1839

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Dorothea Friederike von Schlegel (née Brendel Mendelssohn; 24 October 1764 – 3 August 1839) was a German novelist and translator. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Dorothea von Schlegel has received more than 61,626 page views. Her biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Dorothea von Schlegel is the 2,550th most popular writer (up from 2,790th in 2019), the 2,690th most popular biography from Germany (up from 2,877th in 2019) and the 164th most popular German Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Dorothea von Schlegel ranks 2,550 out of 7,302Before her are Alexandra Ripley, Philo of Byblos, Juan del Encina, Al-Asmaʿi, Lois McMaster Bujold, and Cornelis de Bruijn. After her are Noël Coward, Amélie Nothomb, Andrea Dworkin, Ivan Yefremov, Catulle Mendès, and Raffi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1764, Dorothea von Schlegel ranks 18Before her are Princess Maria Carolina of Savoy, Barbara von Krüdener, Sophie de Condorcet, Alexander Mackenzie, Carlo Andrea Pozzo di Borgo, and Gustav Hugo. After her are Jens Baggesen, Charles Percier, Marie-Joseph Chénier, Valentino Fioravanti, Andrés Manuel del Río, and Sidney Smith. Among people deceased in 1839, Dorothea von Schlegel ranks 21Before her are Lord William Bentinck, Ferdinando Paer, Mikhail Speransky, Adolphe Nourrit, Andrew Dũng-Lạc, and Joseph Anton Koch. After her are Gaspard de Prony, Aloysia Weber, Lady Hester Stanhope, Denis Davydov, Duchess Therese of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, and Hugues-Bernard Maret, duc de Bassano.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Dorothea von Schlegel ranks 2,690 out of 7,253Before her are Johann Peter Frank (1745), Louis II, Landgrave of Thuringia (1128), Fritz Müller (1822), Hans Delbrück (1848), Bernhard Förster (1843), and Christian Daniel Rauch (1777). After her are Gertrude of Süpplingenburg (1115), Grand Duchess Maria Kirillovna of Russia (1907), Jakob Friedrich Fries (1773), Adolphus Frederick III, Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (1686), John I, Duke of Saxony (1249), and Frederick William, Margrave of Brandenburg-Schwedt (1700).

Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Dorothea von Schlegel ranks 164Before her are Wilhelm Raabe (1831), Ursula Kuczynski (1907), Stefan Heym (1913), Heinrich Hoffmann (1809), Heinz G. Konsalik (1921), and Christian Fürchtegott Gellert (1715). After her are George Mosse (1918), Wilhelm Worringer (1881), Friedrich Spee (1591), Johann Froben (1460), Karl Gutzkow (1811), and Gertrud von Le Fort (1876).