WRITER

Eckhart Tolle

1948 - Today

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Eckhart Tolle ( EK-art TOL-ə; German: [ˈɛkhaʁt ˈtɔlə]; born Ulrich Leonard Tölle, 16 February 1948) is a German-born spiritual teacher and self-help author. His books include The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment (1997), A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose (2005) and the picture book Guardians of Being (2009). Tolle came to prominence as a self-help author in the U.S. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Eckhart Tolle has received more than 5,597,885 page views. His biography is available in 45 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 41 in 2019). Eckhart Tolle is the 190th most popular writer (up from 253rd in 2019), the 152nd most popular biography from Germany (up from 206th in 2019) and the 12th most popular German Writer.

Eckhart Tolle is most famous for his book The Power of Now, which is about how to live in the present moment and let go of the past and future.

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  • 5.6M

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  • 76.94

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  • 45

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 15.23

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.87

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Eckhart Tolle ranks 190 out of 7,302. Before him are Constantine VII, Tove Jansson, Dale Carnegie, Murasaki Shikibu, Stanisław Lem, and Lope de Vega. After him are Janusz Korczak, Lu Xun, Al-Masudi, Friedrich Hölderlin, Juvenal, and Luís de Camões.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1948, Eckhart Tolle ranks 7. Before him are Al Gore, Charles, Prince of Wales, Jean Reno, Gérard Depardieu, Terry Pratchett, and Svetlana Alexievich. After him are Jean-Michel Jarre, Cat Stevens, Samuel L. Jackson, Hassan Rouhani, Sauli Niinistö, and Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Eckhart Tolle ranks 152 out of 7,253. Before him are Ernst Röhm (1887), Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor (973), Frederick William I of Prussia (1688), Friedrich Ebert (1871), Levi Strauss (1829), and Pope Joan (null). After him are Agrippina the Younger (15), Franz von Papen (1879), Friedrich Hölderlin (1770), Johann Friedrich Herbart (1776), Alfred Jodl (1890), and Frederick William IV of Prussia (1795).

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Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Eckhart Tolle ranks 12. Before him are Heinrich Heine (1797), Bertolt Brecht (1898), Erich Maria Remarque (1898), Charles Bukowski (1920), Novalis (1772), and Heinrich Böll (1917). After him are Friedrich Hölderlin (1770), Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729), Jacob Grimm (1785), Nelly Sachs (1891), Paul Heyse (1830), and Heinrich von Kleist (1777).

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