1777 - 1811
Bernd Heinrich Wilhelm von Kleist (18 October 1777 – 21 November 1811) was a German poet, dramatist, novelist, short story writer and journalist. His best known works are the theatre plays Das Käthchen von Heilbronn, The Broken Jug, Amphitryon and Penthesilea, and the novellas Michael Kohlhaas and The Marquise of O. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Heinrich von Kleist has received more than 489,378 page views. His biography is available in 63 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 59 in 2019). Heinrich von Kleist is the 435th most popular writer (down from 332nd in 2019), the 370th most popular biography from Germany (down from 273rd in 2019) and the 27th most popular German Writer.
Heinrich von Kleist is most famous for his play, "The Prince of Homburg."
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Among writers, Heinrich von Kleist ranks 435 out of 5,794. Before him are Alfred de Musset, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Andrzej Sapkowski, Sei Shōnagon, Kurt Vonnegut, and Alexander Pope. After him are Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux, Léopold Sédar Senghor, Joseph Brodsky, Sylvia Plath, Ken Follett, and Baldassare Castiglione.
1810 - 1857
HPI: 75.19
Rank: 429
1828 - 1882
HPI: 75.19
Rank: 430
1948 - Present
HPI: 75.19
Rank: 431
966 - 1025
HPI: 75.16
Rank: 432
1922 - 2007
HPI: 75.16
Rank: 433
1688 - 1744
HPI: 75.16
Rank: 434
1777 - 1811
HPI: 75.10
Rank: 435
1636 - 1711
HPI: 75.08
Rank: 436
1906 - 2001
HPI: 75.05
Rank: 437
1940 - 1996
HPI: 75.04
Rank: 438
1932 - 1963
HPI: 75.03
Rank: 439
1949 - Present
HPI: 75.02
Rank: 440
1478 - 1529
HPI: 75.00
Rank: 441
Among people born in 1777, Heinrich von Kleist ranks 6. Before him are Carl Friedrich Gauss, Alexander I of Russia, Hans Christian Ørsted, Désirée Clary, and Henry Clay. After him are Francis I of the Two Sicilies, Elisa Bonaparte, Juliette Récamier, Louis Jacques Thénard, Philipp Otto Runge, and Nathan Mayer Rothschild. Among people deceased in 1811, Heinrich von Kleist ranks 2. Before him is Louis Antoine de Bougainville. After him are Peter Simon Pallas, Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, Charles Frederick, Grand Duke of Baden, Dositej Obradović, Jean Chalgrin, Nevil Maskelyne, Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos, Ignacio Allende, Marie-Joseph Chénier, and Christoph Friedrich Nicolai.
1777 - 1855
HPI: 89.18
Rank: 1
1777 - 1825
HPI: 83.26
Rank: 2
1777 - 1851
HPI: 83.01
Rank: 3
1777 - 1860
HPI: 76.64
Rank: 4
1777 - 1852
HPI: 75.91
Rank: 5
1777 - 1811
HPI: 75.10
Rank: 6
1777 - 1830
HPI: 74.49
Rank: 7
1777 - 1820
HPI: 74.09
Rank: 8
1777 - 1849
HPI: 71.29
Rank: 9
1777 - 1857
HPI: 71.12
Rank: 10
1777 - 1810
HPI: 70.88
Rank: 11
1777 - 1836
HPI: 70.80
Rank: 12
1729 - 1811
HPI: 75.81
Rank: 1
1777 - 1811
HPI: 75.10
Rank: 2
1741 - 1811
HPI: 74.13
Rank: 3
1753 - 1811
HPI: 72.37
Rank: 4
1728 - 1811
HPI: 69.18
Rank: 5
1742 - 1811
HPI: 68.02
Rank: 6
1739 - 1811
HPI: 66.73
Rank: 7
1732 - 1811
HPI: 64.70
Rank: 8
1744 - 1811
HPI: 64.52
Rank: 9
1769 - 1811
HPI: 62.66
Rank: 10
1764 - 1811
HPI: 62.64
Rank: 11
1733 - 1811
HPI: 62.60
Rank: 12
Among people born in Germany, Heinrich von Kleist ranks 370 out of 5,289. Before him are Carl Bosch (1874), Georg von Küchler (1881), Martin Behaim (1459), Louis the Child (893), Walther von Reichenau (1884), and Regiomontanus (1436). After him are Paul Hausser (1880), Hans Fritzsche (1900), Martin Waldseemüller (1470), Ludwig III of Bavaria (1845), Friedrich Carl von Savigny (1779), and Wilhelm Maybach (1846).
1874 - 1940
HPI: 75.19
Rank: 364
1881 - 1968
HPI: 75.17
Rank: 365
1459 - 1507
HPI: 75.13
Rank: 366
893 - 911
HPI: 75.11
Rank: 367
1884 - 1942
HPI: 75.11
Rank: 368
1436 - 1476
HPI: 75.10
Rank: 369
1777 - 1811
HPI: 75.10
Rank: 370
1880 - 1972
HPI: 75.01
Rank: 371
1900 - 1953
HPI: 74.99
Rank: 372
1470 - 1520
HPI: 74.99
Rank: 373
1845 - 1921
HPI: 74.99
Rank: 374
1779 - 1861
HPI: 74.97
Rank: 375
1846 - 1929
HPI: 74.97
Rank: 376
Among writers born in Germany, Heinrich von Kleist ranks 27. Before him are Paul Heyse (1830), Einhard (770), Heinrich Mann (1871), Friedrich Schlegel (1772), Nelly Sachs (1891), and Traudl Junge (1920). After him are Wolfram von Eschenbach (1170), Erich Kästner (1899), Jean Paul (1763), Patrick Süskind (1949), Ludwig Tieck (1773), and Lion Feuchtwanger (1884).
1830 - 1914
HPI: 76.23
Rank: 21
770 - 840
HPI: 76.17
Rank: 22
1871 - 1950
HPI: 76.08
Rank: 23
1772 - 1829
HPI: 75.49
Rank: 24
1891 - 1970
HPI: 75.48
Rank: 25
1920 - 2002
HPI: 75.33
Rank: 26
1777 - 1811
HPI: 75.10
Rank: 27
1170 - 1220
HPI: 74.94
Rank: 28
1899 - 1974
HPI: 74.50
Rank: 29
1763 - 1825
HPI: 74.50
Rank: 30
1949 - Present
HPI: 73.86
Rank: 31
1773 - 1853
HPI: 73.73
Rank: 32
1884 - 1958
HPI: 73.70
Rank: 33