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Friedrich Spee

1591 - 1635

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Friedrich Spee (also Friedrich Spee von Langenfeld; February 25, 1591 – August 7, 1635) was a German Jesuit priest, professor, and poet, most well known as a forceful opponent of witch trials and one who was an insider writing from the epicenter of the European witch-phobia. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Friedrich Spee has received more than 91,011 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Friedrich Spee is the 2,349th most popular writer (up from 2,445th in 2019), the 2,446th most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,431st in 2019) and the 152nd most popular German Writer.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.06

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.02

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Friedrich Spee ranks 2,349 out of 5,755. Before him are Lidia Zamenhof, Giovanni Pascoli, Unica Zürn, Karel Jaromír Erben, Panteleimon Kulish, and Albert Robida. After him are John the Lydian, Mary Baker Eddy, Michael Jackson, Wilhelm Raabe, Orson Scott Card, and Alois Jirásek.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1591, Friedrich Spee ranks 13. Before him are Alfonso III d'Este, Duke of Modena, Johann Adam Schall von Bell, Isabella of Savoy, Margherita Gonzaga, Duchess of Lorraine, Andrew Bobola, and Stanisław Koniecpolski. After him are Frederick Ulrich, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Olimpia Maidalchini, Dirck Hals, Johann von Werth, Anne Hutchinson, and Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of Essex. Among people deceased in 1635, Friedrich Spee ranks 10. Before him are Jacques Callot, Zacharias Janssen, Reza Abbasi, Joos de Momper, Domenico Tintoretto, and Elisabeth of Lorraine. After him are Fakhr al-Din II, Alessandro Tassoni, and Luke Foxe.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Friedrich Spee ranks 2,446 out of 6,142. Before him are Helmut Gröttrup (1916), William III, Duke of Bavaria (1375), Christoph Daum (1953), Arp Schnitger (1648), Wilhelm Ohnesorge (1872), and Unica Zürn (1916). After him are Peter Stein (1937), Louis V, Elector Palatine (1478), Nicodemus Tessin the Elder (1615), Princess Frederica Wilhelmina of Prussia (1796), Wilhelm Raabe (1831), and Johann Heinrich von Mädler (1794).

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Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Friedrich Spee ranks 152. Before him are Wolfgang Iser (1926), Rudolf Rocker (1873), Johann Froben (1460), Berthold Auerbach (1812), Waldemar Bonsels (1880), and Unica Zürn (1916). After him are Wilhelm Raabe (1831), Gottschalk of Orbais (805), Cornelia Funke (1958), Friedrich Melchior, Baron von Grimm (1723), Augustus, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg (1772), and Carl Zuckmayer (1896).

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