WRITER

Georg Calixtus

1586 - 1656

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Georg Calixtus, Kallisøn/Kallisön, or Callisen (14 December 1586 – 19 March 1656) was a German Lutheran theologian who looked to reconcile all Christendom by removing all differences that he deemed "unimportant". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Georg Calixtus has received more than 34,732 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Georg Calixtus is the 5,243rd most popular writer (down from 4,619th in 2019), the 4,848th most popular biography from Germany (down from 4,129th in 2019) and the 315th most popular German Writer.

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Notable Works

De pontificio missae sacrificio tractatus, cuius priore parte caeremoniae eius describuntur
1614
Georg Calixtus' Briefwechsel: In einer Auswahl aus wolfenbüttelschen Handschriften
1833
Georgii Calixti ...
1662

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Georg Calixtus ranks 5,243 out of 7,302. Before him are Leo Buscaglia, Áron Tamási, Sergei Lukyanenko, Kjell Espmark, Tua Forsström, and Katherine Neville. After him are Ahmet Haşim, Thomas Ligotti, Kim Myeong-sun, Erico Verissimo, William Cullen Bryant, and Jules Arsène Arnaud Claretie.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1586, Georg Calixtus ranks 17. Before him are Niccolò Zucchi, John Ford, Louis Frederick, Duke of Württemberg-Montbéliard, Alessandro Grandi, Leo Allatius, and Juan Gómez de Mora. After him is Luke Foxe. Among people deceased in 1656, Georg Calixtus ranks 18. Before him are Laurent de La Hyre, Massimo Stanzione, Christian II, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg, Carlo Contarini, Francesco Cornaro, and Roberto de Nobili. After him is Thomas Tomkins.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Georg Calixtus ranks 4,848 out of 7,253. Before him are Marika Kilius (1943), Veronica Ferres (1965), Carl Mayet (1810), Franz Xaver Kroetz (1946), Hansjörg Felmy (1931), and Günther Oettinger (1953). After him are Marco Bode (1969), Peter Struck (1943), Johann Christoph Wendland (1755), Franz Weidenreich (1873), Barbara Krause (1959), and Walter Giller (1927).

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Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Georg Calixtus ranks 315. Before him are Ludwig Thoma (1867), Peter Härtling (1933), Joseph Victor von Scheffel (1826), Ralph Giordano (1923), Günter de Bruyn (1926), and Franz Xaver Kroetz (1946). After him are Fritz von Unruh (1885), Günther Jauch (1956), Gorch Fock (1880), Curt Siodmak (1902), Horst Faas (1933), and Elisabeth Langgässer (1899).

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