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Glückel of Hameln

1646 - 1724

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Glückel of Hameln (Yiddish: גליקל בת ר' יהודה לייב האַמיל; also spelled Glückel, Glüeckel, Gllckl Hamel or Glikl of Hamelin; also known as Glikl bas Judah Leib) (c. 1646 – September 19, 1724) was a German Jewish businesswoman and diarist. Written in her native tongue of Western Yiddish over the course of thirty years, her memoirs were originally intended to be an ethical will for her children and future descendants. Glückel's diaries are the only known pre-modern Yiddish memoirs written by a woman. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Glückel of Hameln has received more than 118,594 page views. Her biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Glückel of Hameln is the 3,724th most popular writer (down from 3,290th in 2019), the 3,768th most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,267th in 2019) and the 224th most popular German Writer.

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Notable Works

Zikhroynes̀
Biography, Jews, Jewish women
1913
Denkwürdigkeiten der Glückel Von Hameln
2018
The memoirs of Gluckel of Hamelin
Women, Jewish history, Germany
Glukel bas Judah Leib (1646-1724) recorded her thoughts and her life as a widow running her own business to support her large family. Her memoirs provide a detailed view of Jewish life in late 17th-century Germany.
1932
Ḥokhmat nashim
Jews, Biography, Jewish women
2009
Zikhronot Marat Glikel Hamil
2022
The memoirs of Glückel of Hameln
Jews, Biography, Jewish women
1932
The life of Glückel of Hameln, 1646-1724
Jews, History
1963
Zikhroynes̀
Biography, Jews, Jewish women
1913
The memoirs of Glückel of Hameln
Jews, Biography, Jewish women
1932
Ḥokhmat nashim
Jews, Biography, Jewish women
2009
Denkwürdigkeiten von Glückel von Hameln
Biography, Jewish women, Jews
1980
Zikhronot Marat Glikel Hamil
2022

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Glückel of Hameln ranks 3,724 out of 7,302. Before her are Janet Asimov, Évariste de Parny, Eva Mozes Kor, Bhalchandra Nemade, Abd al-Rahman al-Kawakibi, and Jules Lemaître. After her are Constance Lloyd, Sunthorn Phu, Georgette Heyer, Wu Jingzi, Bruno Apitz, and Innokenty Annensky.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1646, Glückel of Hameln ranks 17. Before her are Hortense Mancini, Alexandre Exquemelin, Charles Plumier, Frederick I, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg, Élisabeth Marguerite d'Orléans, and Pierre Le Pesant, sieur de Boisguilbert. After her are Johann Theile, Nicolas de Fer, Paul Hermann, and Jean Hardouin. Among people deceased in 1724, Glückel of Hameln ranks 11. Before her are Johann Homann, Edward Low, Bartolomeu de Gusmão, Marie of Lorraine, Benedetto Luti, and Ernst Ludwig I, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen. After her are Ernest Frederick I, Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen, Johann Theile, Princess Eleonore Juliane of Brandenburg-Ansbach, and Jack Sheppard.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Glückel of Hameln ranks 3,768 out of 7,253. Before her are Günther Victor, Prince of Schwarzburg (1852), Peter Thiel (1967), Erich Marcks (1891), Norbert Lammert (1948), Alexander, Prince of Lippe (1831), and Princess Marie Frederica of Hesse-Kassel (1804). After her are Wolf Hoffmann (1959), Otto I, Duke of Brunswick-Harburg (1495), Bruno Apitz (1900), Christian, Duke of Saxe-Eisenberg (1653), Karl Blossfeldt (1865), and Bernd Förster (1956).

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Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Glückel of Hameln ranks 224. Before her are Leonhard Frank (1882), Gunter d'Alquen (1910), Günter Eich (1907), Johann Heinrich Voss (1751), Sylvia Nasar (1947), and Robert Jungk (1913). After her are Bruno Apitz (1900), Friedrich Theodor Vischer (1807), Ferdinand Freiligrath (1810), Walter Kempowski (1929), Irmgard Keun (1905), and Johann Most (1846).

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