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Gottfried August Bürger

1747 - 1794

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Gottfried August Bürger (31 December 1747 – 8 June 1794) was a German poet. His ballads were very popular in Germany. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gottfried August Bürger has received more than 107,150 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Gottfried August Bürger is the 1,479th most popular writer (up from 1,497th in 2019), the 1,563rd most popular biography from Germany (up from 1,581st in 2019) and the 100th most popular German Writer.

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  • 110k

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  • 58.59

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 25

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.29

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.40

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Gottfried August Bürger ranks 1,479 out of 7,302. Before him are Francis Jammes, Achilles Tatius, Vita Sackville-West, René Char, Samuel ibn Naghrillah, and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. After him are Guido Adler, Ono no Komachi, Tomi Ungerer, Avienus, Adam de la Halle, and Thoinot Arbeau.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1747, Gottfried August Bürger ranks 8. Before him are Louis Philippe II, Duke of Orléans, Abraham-Louis Breguet, Roger Ducos, Vivant Denon, Johann Elert Bode, and Rose Bertin. After him are Louis Alexandre, Prince of Lamballe, Princess Wilhelmina Caroline of Denmark, Leopold Koželuch, Infante Philip, Duke of Calabria, Józef Wybicki, and Armand Louis de Gontaut. Among people deceased in 1794, Gottfried August Bürger ranks 26. Before him are Jacques Roux, Countess Palatine Maria Franziska of Sulzbach, Henri de la Rochejaquelein, Jean-Baptiste Carrier, Rudolf Erich Raspe, and Duchess Sophia Frederica of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. After him are Sheikh Mansur, James Lind, Lucile Desmoulins, Caspar Friedrich Wolff, Guillaume-Chrétien de Lamoignon de Malesherbes, and Florimond Claude, Comte de Mercy-Argenteau.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Gottfried August Bürger ranks 1,563 out of 7,253. Before him are Philipp Franz von Siebold (1796), Carl Ludwig Willdenow (1765), Joos van Cleve (1485), Leo Frobenius (1873), Julius Schaub (1898), and Salomon Mayer von Rothschild (1774). After him are Karin Dor (1938), Johannes Steinhoff (1913), John Polanyi (1929), Johann Matthäus Bechstein (1757), Maria Margaretha Kirch (1670), and Louis IV, Landgrave of Thuringia (1200).

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Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Gottfried August Bürger ranks 100. Before him are Else Lasker-Schüler (1869), Wilhelm Müller (1794), Arnold van Gennep (1873), Paul Rée (1849), Christian Friedrich Hebbel (1813), and August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben (1798). After him are Marianne Weber (1870), Heiner Müller (1929), Stéphane Hessel (1917), Salvian (405), Eduard Mörike (1804), and Adolph Freiherr Knigge (1752).

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