WRITER

Hans Sachs

1494 - 1576

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Hans Sachs (5 November 1494 – 19 January 1576) was a German Meistersinger ("mastersinger"), poet, playwright, and shoemaker. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hans Sachs has received more than 140,941 page views. His biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 34 in 2019). Hans Sachs is the 946th most popular writer (down from 879th in 2019), the 916th most popular biography from Germany (down from 856th in 2019) and the 59th most popular German Writer.

Hans Sachs is most famous for his poems and plays. He was a German poet, shoemaker, and playwright. He is most famous for writing the play "Die Nachtigall" in 1533.

Memorability Metrics

  • 140k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 62.21

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 37

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.47

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.39

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Der hürnen Seufrid
1880
Hans Sachs
1870
Eygentliche Beschreibung aller Stände
Poetry
A 1568 German work uses humorous verse to describe more than one hundred woodcuts depicting the activities of spiritual and secular craftsmen
1930
Meistergesänge, Fastnachtsspiele, Schwänke
Littérature allemande
1960
Sämtliche Fabeln und Schwänke
1893
Fastnachtspiele
1957

Page views of Hans Sachs by language

Over the past year Hans Sachs has had the most page views in the with 42,093 views, followed by English (15,221), and Russian (5,074). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Swedish (95.17%), Esperanto (57.95%), and Occitan (49.49%)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Hans Sachs ranks 946 out of 7,302. Before him are Rustichello da Pisa, Nellie Bly, James Jones, Pierre Larousse, Rubén Darío, and Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff. After him are L. Frank Baum, Alexandra David-Néel, Vātsyāyana, Virginia Satir, Andrew of Crete, and Johannes Tauler.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1494, Hans Sachs ranks 13. Before him are Bona Sforza, Jean Parisot de Valette, Leo Africanus, Rosso Fiorentino, Lucas van Leyden, and William Tyndale. After him are Antonio de Mendoza, Saitō Dōsan, Oronce Finé, Hans Tausen, Antoinette de Bourbon, and Ambrosius Holbein. Among people deceased in 1576, Hans Sachs ranks 6. Before him are Titian, Gerolamo Cardano, Tahmasp I, Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor, and Aloysius Lilius. After him are Frederick III, Elector Palatine, Isabella de' Medici, Bálint Bakfark, Luis de Requesens y Zúñiga, Bartolomé Carranza, and John Albert I, Duke of Mecklenburg.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Hans Sachs ranks 916 out of 7,253. Before him are Ernst Chain (1906), Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche (1846), Nathan Mayer Rothschild (1777), William IV, Duke of Bavaria (1493), Prince Augustus William of Prussia (1722), and Leo Strauss (1899). After him are Hans Scholl (1918), Albert of Saxony (1828), August Wilhelm von Hofmann (1818), Luise Rainer (1910), Landgravine Elisabeth Amalie of Hesse-Darmstadt (1635), and Thomas Tuchel (1973).

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Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Hans Sachs ranks 59. Before him are Stefan George (1868), Achim von Arnim (1781), Anna Seghers (1900), Joost van den Vondel (1587), Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen (1622), and W. G. Sebald (1944). After him are Kurt Eisner (1867), Tannhäuser (1205), Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse (1868), Christoph Martin Wieland (1733), Hrotsvitha (935), and Charles De Coster (1827).

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