1776 - 1822
Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann (commonly abbreviated as E. T. A. Hoffmann; born Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffmann; 24 January 1776 – 25 June 1822) was a German Romantic author of fantasy and Gothic horror, a jurist, composer, music critic and artist. His stories form the basis of Jacques Offenbach's opera The Tales of Hoffmann, in which Hoffmann appears (heavily fictionalized) as the hero. He is also the author of the novella The Nutcracker and the Mouse King, on which Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's ballet The Nutcracker is based. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of E. T. A. Hoffmann has received more than 702,209 page views. His biography is available in 62 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 60 in 2019). E. T. A. Hoffmann is the 129th most popular writer (up from 134th in 2019), the 46th most popular biography from Russia (up from 48th in 2019) and the 11th most popular Russian Writer.
E. T. A. Hoffmann is most famous for his novel "The Nutcracker and the Mouse King."
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Among writers, E. T. A. Hoffmann ranks 129 out of 5,794. Before him are Plautus, Rudyard Kipling, Robert Louis Stevenson, Emily Brontë, Walter Scott, and August Strindberg. After him are William Blake, Carlo Collodi, Kālidāsa, Heinrich Böll, Boris Pasternak, and Sully Prudhomme.
254 BC - 184 BC
HPI: 81.63
Rank: 123
1865 - 1936
HPI: 81.42
Rank: 124
1850 - 1894
HPI: 81.38
Rank: 125
1818 - 1848
HPI: 81.36
Rank: 126
1771 - 1832
HPI: 81.23
Rank: 127
1849 - 1912
HPI: 81.20
Rank: 128
1776 - 1822
HPI: 81.16
Rank: 129
1757 - 1827
HPI: 81.15
Rank: 130
1826 - 1890
HPI: 81.14
Rank: 131
400 - 420
HPI: 81.11
Rank: 132
1917 - 1985
HPI: 81.11
Rank: 133
1890 - 1960
HPI: 81.07
Rank: 134
1839 - 1907
HPI: 81.04
Rank: 135
Among people born in 1776, E. T. A. Hoffmann ranks 1. After him are Amedeo Avogadro, Johann Friedrich Herbart, Sophie Germain, John Constable, Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Caroline of Baden, Ioannis Kapodistrias, Archduke Joseph, Palatine of Hungary, Johann Wilhelm Ritter, Pehr Henrik Ling, and Barthold Georg Niebuhr. Among people deceased in 1822, E. T. A. Hoffmann ranks 1. After him are William Herschel, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Antonio Canova, Ali Pasha of Ioannina, Claude Louis Berthollet, Albert Casimir, Duke of Teschen, Armand-Emmanuel de Vignerot du Plessis, Duc de Richelieu, Giovanni Battista Venturi, Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre, René Just Haüy, and Paolo Ruffini.
1776 - 1822
HPI: 81.16
Rank: 1
1776 - 1856
HPI: 80.74
Rank: 2
1776 - 1841
HPI: 78.21
Rank: 3
1776 - 1831
HPI: 76.78
Rank: 4
1776 - 1837
HPI: 76.36
Rank: 5
1776 - 1810
HPI: 75.29
Rank: 6
1776 - 1841
HPI: 73.61
Rank: 7
1776 - 1831
HPI: 72.19
Rank: 8
1776 - 1847
HPI: 71.82
Rank: 9
1776 - 1810
HPI: 71.09
Rank: 10
1776 - 1839
HPI: 69.52
Rank: 11
1776 - 1831
HPI: 68.31
Rank: 12
1776 - 1822
HPI: 81.16
Rank: 1
1738 - 1822
HPI: 81.05
Rank: 2
1792 - 1822
HPI: 77.94
Rank: 3
1757 - 1822
HPI: 77.83
Rank: 4
1750 - 1822
HPI: 77.10
Rank: 5
1748 - 1822
HPI: 74.09
Rank: 6
1738 - 1822
HPI: 71.42
Rank: 7
1766 - 1822
HPI: 71.40
Rank: 8
1746 - 1822
HPI: 69.70
Rank: 9
1749 - 1822
HPI: 68.94
Rank: 10
1743 - 1822
HPI: 68.80
Rank: 11
1765 - 1822
HPI: 68.05
Rank: 12
Among people born in Russia, E. T. A. Hoffmann ranks 46 out of 2,688. Before him are Yuri Andropov (1914), Valentina Tereshkova (1937), Alexander II of Russia (1818), David Hilbert (1862), Konstantin Chernenko (1911), and Elizabeth of Russia (1709). After him are Boris Pasternak (1890), Andrei Tarkovsky (1932), Rudolf Nureyev (1938), Vyacheslav Molotov (1890), Lou Andreas-Salomé (1861), and Lev Yashin (1929).
1914 - 1984
HPI: 82.11
Rank: 40
1937 - Present
HPI: 81.67
Rank: 41
1818 - 1881
HPI: 81.63
Rank: 42
1862 - 1943
HPI: 81.54
Rank: 43
1911 - 1985
HPI: 81.52
Rank: 44
1709 - 1762
HPI: 81.51
Rank: 45
1776 - 1822
HPI: 81.16
Rank: 46
1890 - 1960
HPI: 81.07
Rank: 47
1932 - 1986
HPI: 81.03
Rank: 48
1938 - 1993
HPI: 80.88
Rank: 49
1890 - 1986
HPI: 80.73
Rank: 50
1861 - 1937
HPI: 80.48
Rank: 51
1929 - 1990
HPI: 80.43
Rank: 52
Among writers born in Russia, E. T. A. Hoffmann ranks 11. Before him are Maxim Gorky (1868), Ayn Rand (1905), Isaac Asimov (1920), Ivan Turgenev (1818), Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918), and Vladimir Nabokov (1899). After him are Boris Pasternak (1890), Lou Andreas-Salomé (1861), Mikhail Lermontov (1814), Mikhail Sholokhov (1905), Vladimir Vysotsky (1938), and Svetlana Alliluyeva (1926).
1868 - 1936
HPI: 84.53
Rank: 5
1905 - 1982
HPI: 84.20
Rank: 6
1920 - 1992
HPI: 83.85
Rank: 7
1818 - 1883
HPI: 82.56
Rank: 8
1918 - 2008
HPI: 82.30
Rank: 9
1899 - 1977
HPI: 82.16
Rank: 10
1776 - 1822
HPI: 81.16
Rank: 11
1890 - 1960
HPI: 81.07
Rank: 12
1861 - 1937
HPI: 80.48
Rank: 13
1814 - 1841
HPI: 77.12
Rank: 14
1905 - 1984
HPI: 76.10
Rank: 15
1938 - 1980
HPI: 75.66
Rank: 16
1926 - 2011
HPI: 75.54
Rank: 17