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Georg Herwegh

1817 - 1875

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Georg Friedrich Rudolph Theodor Herwegh (31 May 1817 – 7 April 1875) was a German poet, who is considered part of the Young Germany movement. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Georg Herwegh has received more than 59,113 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Georg Herwegh is the 2,611th most popular writer (up from 2,767th in 2019), the 2,758th most popular biography from Germany (up from 2,864th in 2019) and the 171st most popular German Writer.

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  • 25

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.20

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.78

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Georg Herwegh ranks 2,611 out of 7,302. Before him are Banana Yoshimoto, Tobias Smollett, Mohammed Hussein Heikal, Sima Tan, Josef Jungmann, and Gertrud von Le Fort. After him are Ivan Mažuranić, Mihail Sadoveanu, Varro Atacinus, Terry Goodkind, Vladimir Sorokin, and Nordahl Grieg.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1817, Georg Herwegh ranks 40. Before him are Adolf I, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe, Archduke Stephen, Palatine of Hungary, Bernhard Windscheid, Nikoloz Baratashvili, Karl Vogt, and Adolphe Alphand. After him are George Frederic Watts, Alfred Józef Potocki, Archduchess Maria Theresa of Austria-Este, Heinrich Graetz, Wilhelm Griesinger, and Debendranath Tagore. Among people deceased in 1875, Georg Herwegh ranks 40. Before him are Antoine-Louis Barye, Frederick William, Elector of Hesse, Henry Wilson, Infante Sebastian of Portugal and Spain, January Suchodolski, and Louise Farrenc. After him are Eugène Schneider, Marc Seguin, Charles Elliot, Charles Kingsley, Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume, and John C. Breckinridge.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Georg Herwegh ranks 2,758 out of 7,253. Before him are Princess Marie of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt (1850), Andreas Werckmeister (1645), Poppo von Osterna (1200), Prince Friedrich Leopold of Prussia (1865), Max Skladanowsky (1863), and Gertrud von Le Fort (1876). After him are Paul Freiherr von Eltz-Rübenach (1875), Max Pauly (1907), Princess Alexandra Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg (1887), Karl Koch (1809), Justinus Kerner (1786), and Carl Ludwig Siegel (1896).

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Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Georg Herwegh ranks 171. Before him are George Mosse (1918), Wilhelm Worringer (1881), Friedrich Spee (1591), Johann Froben (1460), Karl Gutzkow (1811), and Gertrud von Le Fort (1876). After him are Günter Wallraff (1942), Waldemar Bonsels (1880), Matthias Claudius (1740), Gustav Schwab (1792), Samson Raphael Hirsch (1808), and Cornelia Funke (1958).

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