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Gottfried Benn

1886 - 1956

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Gottfried Benn (2 May 1886 – 7 July 1956) was a German poet, essayist, and physician. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature five times. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gottfried Benn has received more than 210,385 page views. His biography is available in 39 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 36 in 2019). Gottfried Benn is the 1,166th most popular writer (up from 1,226th in 2019), the 1,166th most popular biography from Germany (up from 1,261st in 2019) and the 75th most popular German Writer.

Gottfried Benn is most famous for his poetry and essays.

Memorability Metrics

  • 210k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 60.61

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 39

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.61

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.84

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Ausgewählte Briefe
1957
Probleme der Lyrik
1951
Gesammelte Werke
1958
Gottfried Benn
1965
Statische Gedichte
1948
Der Ptolemäer
1949
Gesammelte Werke in vier Bänden
1958
Gesammelte Werke
1958
Den Traum alleine tragen
German Authors, Biography
1966
Gesammelte Werke
1962
Ausgewählte Briefe
Authors, German, Correspondence, German Authors
1957
Primal vision
Poetry, German Literature, Literature: Classics
1960

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Gottfried Benn ranks 1,166 out of 7,302. Before him are Alcman, Rosalía de Castro, Aleksis Kivi, Deepak Chopra, Sankardev, and Hans Magnus Enzensberger. After him are Mercè Rodoreda, Polyaenus, Bāṇabhaṭṭa, Ugo Foscolo, E. Howard Hunt, and Rudolf von Sebottendorf.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1886, Gottfried Benn ranks 48. Before him are Marcel Dupré, Franz Rosenzweig, Dong Biwu, Edward C. Tolman, Duchess Cecilie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, and Alain-Fournier. After him are Erich Fellgiebel, Willem Drees, Tsuguharu Foujita, Giovanni Battista Caproni, Jisaburō Ozawa, and Raymond A. Spruance. Among people deceased in 1956, Gottfried Benn ranks 37. Before him are Elisabeth of Romania, August Kubizek, Juan Negrín, Marie Laurencin, Yakub Kolas, and William Boeing. After him are Giovanni Papini, Jan Łukasiewicz, Mistinguett, Alfredo Ferrari, Alben W. Barkley, and Mahmud Barzanji.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Gottfried Benn ranks 1,166 out of 7,253. Before him are Johann van Beethoven (1740), Sigmund Jähn (1937), James Mayer de Rothschild (1792), Pascual Jordan (1902), Frederick I, Grand Duke of Baden (1826), and Hans Magnus Enzensberger (1929). After him are Anne Catherine of Brandenburg (1575), Rudolf von Sebottendorf (1875), Wilhelm von Gloeden (1856), Alfred Krupp (1812), Johann Elert Bode (1747), and Mesut Özil (1988).

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Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Gottfried Benn ranks 75. Before him are Alfred Brehm (1829), Ernst Hanfstaengl (1887), Marie of Cleves, Duchess of Orléans (1426), August von Kotzebue (1761), Friedrich Maximilian Klinger (1752), and Hans Magnus Enzensberger (1929). After him are Rudolf von Sebottendorf (1875), Radegund (518), Theodor Storm (1817), Johann Peter Eckermann (1792), Johannes Valentinus Andreae (1586), and Wilhelm Weitling (1808).

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