WRITER

Friedrich Rückert

1788 - 1866

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Johann Michael Friedrich Rückert (16 May 1788 – 31 January 1866) was a German poet, translator, and professor of Oriental languages. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Friedrich Rückert has received more than 158,172 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Friedrich Rückert is the 1,768th most popular writer (up from 2,045th in 2019), the 1,869th most popular biography from Germany (up from 2,174th in 2019) and the 116th most popular German Writer.

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  • 160k

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  • 57.17

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 27

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.20

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.25

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Werke
2000
Sieben Bücher Morgenländischer Sagen und Geschichten
2002
Gedichte
1841
Gesammelte poetische Werke
1868
Friedrich Rückert\'s gesammelte poetische Werke
2001
Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes
Oriental studies, Oriental literature, Akkadian language
1837

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Friedrich Rückert ranks 1,768 out of 7,302. Before him are Friedrich Melchior, Baron von Grimm, Raymond E. Feist, Adam Zagajewski, Bhanubhakta Acharya, Herbjørg Wassmo, and Vasily Shukshin. After him are Joseph Joubert, Magnús Scheving, Ted Hughes, Felice Orsini, Miguel Hernández, and Anton Hansen Tammsaare.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1788, Friedrich Rückert ranks 22. Before him are Ranavalona I, Catherine Pavlovna of Russia, Johan Christian Dahl, Mikhail Lazarev, Leopold Gmelin, and David d'Angers. After him are Geert Adriaans Boomgaard, Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes, Carl Reichenbach, Pierre Joseph Pelletier, Felice Romani, and Jean-Pierre Abel-Rémusat. Among people deceased in 1866, Friedrich Rückert ranks 12. Before him are Tokugawa Iemochi, William Whewell, Hermann Goldschmidt, Chief Seattle, Philipp Franz von Siebold, and Adolph Diesterweg. After him are Paul Gavarni, Thomas Hodgkin, Rikard Nordraak, Winfield Scott, Alexander von Nordmann, and Madame Clicquot Ponsardin.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Friedrich Rückert ranks 1,869 out of 7,253. Before him are Duke Anthony Ulrich of Brunswick (1714), Charles II August, Duke of Zweibrücken (1746), Charlotte Salomon (1917), Johann Karl Wilhelm Illiger (1775), Heinz Jost (1904), and Carl Gustav Carus (1789). After him are Georg II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen (1826), Heinrich Friedrich Karl vom und zum Stein (1757), Friedrich Albert Lange (1828), Princess Alexandra of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1878), George Victor, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont (1831), and Hermann Paul (1846).

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Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Friedrich Rückert ranks 116. Before him are Ludwig Börne (1786), Christian Morgenstern (1871), Martin Walser (1927), Basil Valentine (1394), Hans F. K. Günther (1891), and Friedrich Melchior, Baron von Grimm (1723). After him are Anthony Ulrich, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1633), Elvira Madigan (1867), Theodor Nöldeke (1836), Katia Mann (1883), Augustus the Younger, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1579), and Paul Gerhardt (1607).

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