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Ewald Georg von Kleist

1700 - 1748

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Ewald Georg von Kleist (10 June 1700 – 11 December 1748), also known as Ewald Jürgen von Kleist, was a German jurist, Lutheran cleric, physicist and the inventor of the Leyden jar. A member of the von Kleist family, Ewald was born in Wicewo in Farther Pomerania. His father was district administrator Ewald Joachim von Kleist (1657–1716). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ewald Georg von Kleist has received more than 107,200 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia. Ewald Georg von Kleist is the 26th most popular lawyer (down from 24th in 2019), the 329th most popular biography from Poland (down from 290th in 2019) and the most popular Polish Lawyer.

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Among LAWYERS

Among lawyers, Ewald Georg von Kleist ranks 26 out of 136Before him are Al-Mawardi, John F. Kennedy Jr., Irnerius, Peter Benenson, Fabian von Schlabrendorff, and Helmuth James von Moltke. After him are Warren Christopher, Al-Sarakhsi, Baldus de Ubaldis, Hans Gross, Qasim Amin, and Kiki Camarena.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1700, Ewald Georg von Kleist ranks 8Before him are Baal Shem Tov, Charles Frederick, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp, Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli, Nicolaus Zinzendorf, Giovanni Battista Sammartini, and Sophie Magdalene of Brandenburg-Kulmbach. After him are Johann Christoph Gottsched, Clemens August of Bavaria, Charlotte Aglaé d'Orléans, Jean-Antoine Nollet, Luigi Vanvitelli, and Gerard van Swieten. Among people deceased in 1748, Ewald Georg von Kleist ranks 4Before him are Johann Bernoulli, Nizam-ul-Mulk, Asaf Jah I, and Countess Palatine Dorothea Sophie of Neuburg. After him are Abul Khair Khan, Johann Gottfried Walther, Johann Nepomuk Karl, Prince of Liechtenstein, Ernest Augustus I, Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Ebrahim Afshar, Muhammad Shah, Margravine Elisabeth Sophie of Brandenburg, and William Kent.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Ewald Georg von Kleist ranks 329 out of 1,694Before him are Lestek (870), Jerzy Stuhr (1947), Mieszko III the Old (1126), Ernst Wilimowski (1916), Walther Nehring (1892), and Kurt Tank (1898). After him are Kurt Schumacher (1895), Mieczysław Weinberg (1919), Eberhard von Mackensen (1889), Tommy Wiseau (1955), Tekla Bądarzewska-Baranowska (1834), and Barbara Brylska (1941).

Among LAWYERS In Poland

Among lawyers born in Poland, Ewald Georg von Kleist ranks 1After him are Peter Yorck von Wartenburg (1904).