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Gottfried van Swieten

1733 - 1803

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Gottfried Freiherr van Swieten (29 October 1733 – 29 March 1803) was a Dutch-born Austrian diplomat, librarian, and government official who served the Holy Roman Empire during the 18th century. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gottfried van Swieten has received more than 191,325 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Gottfried van Swieten is the 8,979th most popular politician (down from 7,605th in 2019), the 388th most popular biography from Netherlands (down from 309th in 2019) and the 60th most popular Dutch Politician.

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    Languages Editions (L)

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  • 2.11

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Gottfried van Swieten ranks 8,979 out of 19,576. Before him are Rabah Bitat, Patriarch Sergius of Moscow, Ernest Augustus II, Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Princess Eudoxia of Bulgaria, Princess Anne Charlotte of Lorraine, and Laoshang. After him are Pōmare IV, Catherine of Brandenburg, Tommaso Mocenigo, Quintus Fulvius Flaccus, Zheng Keshuang, and Suleiman Frangieh.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1733, Gottfried van Swieten ranks 10. Before him are Christoph Martin Wieland, Siraj ud-Daulah, Carsten Niebuhr, Hubert Robert, Jean-Charles de Borda, and Charles of Saxony, Duke of Courland. After him are Daniel Solander, Christoph Friedrich Nicolai, Maruyama Ōkyo, George Read, Philip Carteret, and Adam Naruszewicz. Among people deceased in 1803, Gottfried van Swieten ranks 21. Before him are Kirill Razumovski, Ercole III d'Este, Duke of Modena, Abdulaziz bin Muhammad Al Saud, Samuel von Brukenthal, François Devienne, and William Hamilton. After him are Anders Chydenius, Nicolas Baudin, Arthur Guinness, Jean-François de La Harpe, Sylvain Maréchal, and Maria Fortunata d'Este.

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In Netherlands

Among people born in Netherlands, Gottfried van Swieten ranks 388 out of 1,646. Before him are Floris II, Count of Holland (1091), Marc Overmars (1973), Cornelis Cort (1533), Jan Joosten van Lodensteijn (1556), Jacob Cornelisz van Oostsanen (1472), and Melchior d'Hondecoeter (1636). After him are Sjaak Swart (1938), Abraham van Beijeren (1620), Pierre Kartner (1935), Arend Lijphart (1936), Pieter Post (1608), and Dirck Hals (1591).

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Among POLITICIANS In Netherlands

Among politicians born in Netherlands, Gottfried van Swieten ranks 60. Before him are Henk Sneevliet (1883), Dirk V, Count of Holland (1053), Princess Carolina of Orange-Nassau (1743), Henry Casimir II, Prince of Nassau-Dietz (1657), Piet de Jong (1915), and Floris II, Count of Holland (1091). After him are Joseph Luns (1911), William Frederick, Prince of Nassau-Dietz (1613), Herman Willem Daendels (1762), Frits Bolkestein (1933), Barend Biesheuvel (1920), and Pieter Both (1568).

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