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Garlieb Merkel

1769 - 1850

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Garlieb Helwig Merkel (1 November [O.S. 21 October] 1769 in Lēdurga Parish (now Sigulda Municipality), Kreis Riga – 9 May [O.S. 27 April] 1850 in Riga) was a Baltic German writer and activist and an early Estophile and Lettophile. Merkel was born into the family of a rural priest in what is today Latvia. From the age of 17 he worked as a tutor for upper-class German families. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Garlieb Merkel has received more than 24,709 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Garlieb Merkel is the 3,553rd most popular writer (down from 3,385th in 2019), the 102nd most popular biography from Latvia (down from 91st in 2019) and the 15th most popular Latvian Writer.

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  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.24

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.18

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Garlieb Merkel ranks 3,553 out of 5,755. Before him are Mario Soldati, Bronisława Wajs, Théophile Thoré-Bürger, Zhou Zuoren, Jonathan Littell, and Frances Burney. After him are Andrew Lang, Henry Bataille, Vera Komissarzhevskaya, Seymour Hersh, Sanmao, and Jorge de Montemor.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1769, Garlieb Merkel ranks 31. Before him are Edward Daniel Clarke, Simón Rodríguez, Utagawa Toyokuni, Frederick Ferdinand, Duke of Anhalt-Köthen, Nannette Streicher, and Frederick VI, Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg. After him are Marc Isambard Brunel, Augustus Christian Frederick, Duke of Anhalt-Köthen, Mahmud Shah Durrani, Rose Philippine Duchesne, Vasily Stasov, and Jane Marcet. Among people deceased in 1850, Garlieb Merkel ranks 42. Before him are Carl Sigismund Kunth, Charles Rivière-Hérard, Václav Tomášek, Richard Mentor Johnson, Vicente López Portaña, and Pedro de Sousa Holstein, 1st Duke of Palmela. After him are Karl Friedrich von Gaertner, Princess Juliane Sophie of Denmark, Bashir Shihab II, Friedrich Robert Faehlmann, Johann Jakob Bernhardi, and Karl Schorn.

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In Latvia

Among people born in Latvia, Garlieb Merkel ranks 102 out of 284. Before him are Nikolay Lossky (1870), Ernst von Bergmann (1836), Arkady Raikin (1911), Alexander Kovalevsky (1840), Zenta Mauriņa (1897), and Rosa von Praunheim (1942). After him are Morris Halle (1923), Jāzeps Vītols (1863), Balys Dvarionas (1904), Anatoly Solovyev (1948), Vija Artmane (1929), and Ernst Rudolf von Trautvetter (1809).

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Among WRITERS In Latvia

Among writers born in Latvia, Garlieb Merkel ranks 15. Before him are Yury Tynyanov (1894), Vizma Belševica (1931), Kristjan Jaak Peterson (1801), Krišjānis Barons (1835), Aleksandrs Čaks (1901), and Zenta Mauriņa (1897). After him are Rūdolfs Blaumanis (1863), Regīna Ezera (1930), Andrejs Upīts (1877), Kārlis Skalbe (1879), Imants Ziedonis (1933), and Anna Brigadere (1861).

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