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Ferdinand Freiligrath

1810 - 1876

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Ferdinand Freiligrath (17 June 1810 – 18 March 1876) was a German poet, translator and liberal agitator, who is considered part of the Young Germany movement. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ferdinand Freiligrath has received more than 57,556 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Ferdinand Freiligrath is the 3,772nd most popular writer (up from 3,887th in 2019), the 3,807th most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,665th in 2019) and the 227th most popular German Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Ferdinand Freiligrath ranks 3,772 out of 7,302Before him are Brandon Sanderson, Angelo de Gubernatis, Adile Sultan, Brendan Behan, Nick Hornby, and Mary Renault. After him are Friederike Mayröcker, Said Akl, Lucrezia Marinella, Jacob of Serugh, Peter Andreas Heiberg, and Charles Simon Favart.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1810, Ferdinand Freiligrath ranks 62Before him are Maurice de Guérin, Giovanni Lanza, Edward Blyth, Lorenzo Batlle y Grau, Eugène Belgrand, and Leonhard Graf von Blumenthal. After him are Grigory Gagarin, Ernest Courtot de Cissey, Jaime Balmes, Miklós Barabás, Jules Malou, and Philip Henry Gosse. Among people deceased in 1876, Ferdinand Freiligrath ranks 43Before him are Karl Eichwald, Johann Löwenthal, Josef Kriehuber, Hermann Goetz, Braxton Bragg, and Joseph von Führich. After him are August Wilhelm Ambros, Duke Georg August of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Joseph Böhm, Count Anton Alexander von Auersperg, Salim bin Thuwaini, and Eliza McCardle Johnson.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Ferdinand Freiligrath ranks 3,807 out of 7,253Before him are Albrecht Thaer (1752), Inge Scholl (1917), Balthasar Permoser (1651), Otto Witte (1872), Bernard Dietz (1948), and Johann Friedrich Meckel (1781). After him are Princess Charlotte Sophie of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (1731), Alexander Kanoldt (1881), Friedel Lutz (1939), Bernhard Romberg (1767), Friedrich Ludwig Schröder (1744), and Friedrich August Theodor Winnecke (1835).

Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Ferdinand Freiligrath ranks 227Before him are Johann Heinrich Voss (1751), Sylvia Nasar (1947), Robert Jungk (1913), Glückel of Hameln (1646), Bruno Apitz (1900), and Friedrich Theodor Vischer (1807). After him are Walter Kempowski (1929), Irmgard Keun (1905), Johann Most (1846), Botho Strauß (1944), Johann Baptist Allgaier (1763), and Karoline von Günderrode (1780).