WRITER

Gottfried Keller

1819 - 1890

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Gottfried Keller (19 July 1819 – 15 July 1890) was a Swiss poet and writer of German literature. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gottfried Keller has received more than 205,976 page views. His biography is available in 44 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 41 in 2019). Gottfried Keller is the 1,146th most popular writer (up from 1,183rd in 2019), the 116th most popular biography from Switzerland (down from 115th in 2019) and the 12th most popular Swiss Writer.

Gottfried Keller is most famous for his novel Der grüne Heinrich, which is about a man who is in love with a woman who is married to another man.

Memorability Metrics

  • 210k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 60.70

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 44

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.35

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.26

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Der grüne Heinrich
Accessible book
1800
Romeo und Julia auf dem Dorfe
German language
1900
Sämtliche Werke
Accessible book
1921
Die Leute von Seldwyla
German language books, Accessible book
1887
Das Sinngedicht
1800
Kleider machen Leute
Accessible book, German language, Readers
1895
Sämtliche Werke
1921
Martin Salander
1890
Die Leute von Seldwyla
German language books
1887
Kleider machen Leute
German language, Readers, Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author)
1895
Der grüne Heinrich
1800
Romeo und Julia auf dem Dorfe
German language, Poetry, collections, Criticism and interpretation
1900
Martin Salander
1890
Die Leute von Seldwyla
German language books
1887
Sämtliche Werke
1921
Kleider machen Leute
German language, Readers, Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author)
1895
Der grüne Heinrich
1800
Romeo und Julia auf dem Dorfe
German language, Poetry, collections, Criticism and interpretation
1900

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Gottfried Keller ranks 1,146 out of 7,302. Before him are Gaius Valerius Flaccus, Monique Wittig, Léon Bloy, Cornelius Gallus, Anne Rice, and Antoine François Prévost. After him are Vidyapati, Lao She, Mavro Orbini, Hugo Gernsback, Friedrich Maximilian Klinger, and Chevalier d'Éon.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1819, Gottfried Keller ranks 23. Before him are William T. G. Morton, George V of Hanover, Theodor Fontane, Franz von Suppé, Stanisław Moniuszko, and Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia. After him are Louise Marie Thérèse of Artois, Francis V, Duke of Modena, Allan Pinkerton, Johan Jongkind, Théodore Chassériau, and Annibale de Gasparis. Among people deceased in 1890, Gottfried Keller ranks 19. Before him are Richard Francis Burton, William Kemmler, Niels Gade, John Henry Newman, Princess Zorka of Montenegro, and Louis Le Prince. After him are Lorenz von Stein, Antoine, Duke of Montpensier, Christian Heinrich Friedrich Peters, Jyotirao Phule, Carl Bloch, and C. H. D. Buys Ballot.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Gottfried Keller ranks 116 out of 1,015. Before him are Rolf M. Zinkernagel (1944), Jost Bürgi (1552), Abraham-Louis Breguet (1747), César Ritz (1850), Jean-Étienne Liotard (1702), and Carla Del Ponte (1947). After him are Micheline Calmy-Rey (1945), Jakob Steiner (1796), Jacques Dubochet (1942), Charles Bonnet (1720), Annemarie Schwarzenbach (1908), and Paul Guldin (1577).

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Among WRITERS In Switzerland

Among writers born in Switzerland, Gottfried Keller ranks 12. Before him are Robert Walser (1878), Alejo Carpentier (1904), Johann Ludwig Burckhardt (1784), Max Frisch (1911), Johann Kaspar Lavater (1741), and Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz (1878). After him are Annemarie Schwarzenbach (1908), Blaise Cendrars (1887), Hans Urs von Balthasar (1905), Alfonsina Storni (1892), Antoine-Henri Jomini (1779), and Rodolphe Töpffer (1799).

Swiss born Writers

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