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Heinrich Glarean

1488 - 1563

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Heinrich Glarean also styled Henricus Glareanus (born as Heinrich Loriti on 28 February or 3 June 1488 – 28 March 1563) was a Swiss music theorist, poet, humanist, philosopher and cartographer. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Heinrich Glarean has received more than 57,717 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Heinrich Glarean is the 2,278th most popular writer (down from 2,119th in 2019), the 232nd most popular biography from Switzerland (down from 216th in 2019) and the 22nd most popular Swiss Writer.

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    Languages Editions (L)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Heinrich Glarean ranks 2,278 out of 7,302. Before him are August von Platen-Hallermünde, Fritz Leiber, John W. Campbell, Henri Desgrange, Rahul Sankrityayan, and Christina Rossetti. After him are Tomé Pires, Evelyn Beatrice Hall, Robert Ressler, Harold Bloom, J.-H. Rosny aîné, and Cao Yu.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1488, Heinrich Glarean ranks 15. Before him are Joseph Karo, Ferdinand Columbus, Charles II, Duke of Savoy, Johannes Magnus, Jan Tarnowski, and Otto Brunfels. After him are Alonso Berruguete, Gustav Trolle, Magnus I, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg, Mother Shipton, and Myles Coverdale. Among people deceased in 1563, Heinrich Glarean ranks 4. Before him are Étienne de La Boétie, Francis, Duke of Guise, and Sebastian Castellio. After him are Andrea Schiavone, Teodósio I, Duke of Braganza, Martynas Mažvydas, and Yi Gwang-sik.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Heinrich Glarean ranks 232 out of 1,015. Before him are Carl Nägeli (1817), Marcel Bezençon (1907), Pierre Jeanneret (1896), Jean-André Deluc (1727), Conrad Ferdinand Meyer (1825), and Jean Vanier (1928). After him are Emil Brunner (1889), Pancho Vladigerov (1899), Eugène Grasset (1845), Emma Jung (1882), Louis of Cyprus (1436), and Josias Braun-Blanquet (1884).

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Among WRITERS In Switzerland

Among writers born in Switzerland, Heinrich Glarean ranks 22. Before him are Alfonsina Storni (1892), Antoine-Henri Jomini (1779), Rodolphe Töpffer (1799), Notker the Stammerer (840), Jean Starobinski (1920), and Conrad Ferdinand Meyer (1825). After him are Emma Jung (1882), Johann Jakob Bodmer (1698), Jeremias Gotthelf (1797), Johann Peter Hebel (1760), Peter Bieri (1944), and Arthur Cravan (1887).

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