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Friedrich Ludwig Jahn

1778 - 1852

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Johann Friedrich Ludwig Christoph Jahn (11 August 1778 – 15 October 1852) was a German gymnastics educator and nationalist whose writing is credited with the founding of the German gymnastics (Turner) movement, first realized at Volkspark Hasenheide in Berlin, the origin of modern sports clubs, as well as influencing the German Campaign of 1813, during which a coalition of German states effectively ended the occupation by Napoleon's First French Empire. His admirers know him as "Turnvater Jahn", roughly meaning "Father of Gymnastics Jahn". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Friedrich Ludwig Jahn has received more than 342,080 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Friedrich Ludwig Jahn is the 3,482nd most popular politician (down from 3,257th in 2019), the 946th most popular biography from Germany (down from 884th in 2019) and the 268th most popular German Politician.

Friedrich Ludwig Jahn was a German gymnast and educator. He is most famous for inventing the Turnverein, a gymnasium for the working class.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Friedrich Ludwig Jahn ranks 3,482 out of 19,576. Before him are Ernest Augustus, Duke of Brunswick, Xiao He, Chen Duxiu, Francesco Morosini, Yeon Gaesomun, and Íñigo Arista of Pamplona. After him are Emperor Momozono, Droupadi Murmu, Princess Louise of Belgium, Pak Pong-ju, Archidamus II, and Chang Myon.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1778, Friedrich Ludwig Jahn ranks 15. Before him are Giovanni Battista Belzoni, Bernardo O'Higgins, Fernando Sor, Augustin Pyramus de Candolle, Clemens Brentano, and Charles Ferdinand, Duke of Berry. After him are Coenraad Jacob Temminck, Ugo Foscolo, Kittur Chennamma, Frederica of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Carl Ludvig Engel, and Carl Bernhard von Trinius. Among people deceased in 1852, Friedrich Ludwig Jahn ranks 11. Before him are Friedrich Fröbel, Henry Clay, Auguste de Marmont, Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen, Johan Gadolin, and Karl Bryullov. After him are Vasily Zhukovsky, Maximilian de Beauharnais, 3rd Duke of Leuchtenberg, Ján Kollár, Leopold, Grand Duke of Baden, Xavier de Maistre, and Thomas Moore.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Friedrich Ludwig Jahn ranks 946 out of 7,253. Before him are Princess Maria Josepha of Saxony (1867), Joanna Elisabeth of Holstein-Gottorp (1712), Frederick II, Elector of Saxony (1412), Karl Rahner (1904), Dorothea of Brandenburg (1430), and Johann Friedrich Gmelin (1748). After him are Horst Buchholz (1933), Johann Adolph Hasse (1699), Michael Ballack (1976), Robert Aumann (1930), Edith Frank (1900), and Margot Frank (1926).

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Among POLITICIANS In Germany

Among politicians born in Germany, Friedrich Ludwig Jahn ranks 268. Before him are Emil Maurice (1897), Prince Frederick Charles of Hesse (1868), John George III, Elector of Saxony (1647), Harald Quandt (1921), Princess Maria Josepha of Saxony (1867), and Frederick II, Elector of Saxony (1412). After him are Edith Frank (1900), Hedwig Eleonora of Holstein-Gottorp (1636), Ernst vom Rath (1909), Henry II, Duke of Austria (1107), Louis I, Duke of Bavaria (1173), and Erhard Heiden (1901).

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