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Jean Paul

1763 - 1825

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Jean Paul (German: [ʒɑ̃ paʊl] ; born Johann Paul Friedrich Richter, 21 March 1763 – 14 November 1825) was a German Romantic writer, best known for his humorous novels and stories. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jean Paul has received more than 439,698 page views. His biography is available in 38 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 37 in 2019). Jean Paul is the 500th most popular writer (down from 490th in 2019), the 461st most popular biography from Germany (down from 419th in 2019) and the 27th most popular German Writer.

Jean Paul is most famous for his novel "The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman" which was published in nine volumes from 1759 to 1767.

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  • 66.38

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 38

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.59

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.69

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Jean Paul ranks 500 out of 5,755. Before him are Charles, Duke of Orléans, Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, John le Carré, Nadine Gordimer, Beatrix Potter, and Francesca da Rimini. After him are Al-Maʿarri, Allen Ginsberg, Saul Bellow, Héloïse, Marina Tsvetaeva, and George R. R. Martin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1763, Jean Paul ranks 4. Before him are Empress Joséphine, Charles XIV John of Sweden, and Józef Poniatowski. After him are Jacques Charles, Jean Victor Marie Moreau, Claude Chappe, Louis Nicolas Vauquelin, Augustin Robespierre, Pierre-Charles Villeneuve, Kobayashi Issa, and Guillaume Brune. Among people deceased in 1825, Jean Paul ranks 9. Before him are Antonio Salieri, Henri de Saint-Simon, Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria, Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies, Pauline Bonaparte, and Henry Fuseli. After him are Dmitry Bortniansky, Laskarina Bouboulina, Vivant Denon, Bernard Germain de Lacépède, Franz-Joseph Müller von Reichenstein, and Mikhail Miloradovich.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Jean Paul ranks 461 out of 6,142. Before him are Emile Berliner (1851), Duchess Helene in Bavaria (1834), Fritz Todt (1891), Otto of Bavaria (1848), Franz Boas (1858), and Emil Nolde (1867). After him are Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld (1911), Wilhelm Maybach (1846), Anna Magdalena Bach (1701), Johann Gottfried Galle (1812), Samuel von Pufendorf (1632), and Rudolf Dassler (1898).

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Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Jean Paul ranks 27. Before him are Einhard (770), Michael Ende (1929), Friedrich Schlegel (1772), Wilhelm Grimm (1786), Traudl Junge (1920), and Wolfram von Eschenbach (1170). After him are Ulrich von Hutten (1488), Patrick Süskind (1949), Erich Kästner (1899), Heinrich Mann (1871), Lion Feuchtwanger (1884), and Dietrich Eckart (1868).

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