WRITER

Jeremias Gotthelf

1797 - 1854

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Albert Bitzius (4 October 1797 – 22 October 1854) was a Swiss novelist, best known by his pen name of Jeremias Gotthelf. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jeremias Gotthelf has received more than 94,689 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Jeremias Gotthelf is the 2,398th most popular writer (up from 2,620th in 2019), the 246th most popular biography from Switzerland (up from 258th in 2019) and the 25th most popular Swiss Writer.

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  • 95k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 54.86

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 29

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.46

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.65

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Geld und Geist
1866
Prose
Fiction, Swiss-German
1952
Ausgewählte Werke in Zwölf Bänden
1978
Sämtliche Werke in 24 Bänden
1911
Wie Uli der Knecht glücklich wird
1854
Die schwarze Spinne
1919

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Jeremias Gotthelf ranks 2,398 out of 7,302. Before him are Laura Esquivel, S. N. Goenka, Izumi Shikibu, Johann Jakob Bodmer, Jean-Dominique Bauby, and Per Petterson. After him are M. Karunanidhi, Abu-l-'Atahiya, Giovanni Pascoli, Bion of Smyrna, Mikołaj Rej, and Alonso de Ercilla.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1797, Jeremias Gotthelf ranks 42. Before him are George Tupou I, Pierre Leroux, Said bin Sultan, Sultan of Muscat and Oman, Jean-Marie Duhamel, Princess Hermine of Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym, and James Ferguson. After him are January Suchodolski, Adhémar Jean Claude Barré de Saint-Venant, Jean Léonard Marie Poiseuille, Wilhelm Beer, Friedrich von Lütke, and Prince Adolf zu Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen. Among people deceased in 1854, Jeremias Gotthelf ranks 18. Before him are Zénaïde Bonaparte, Fructuoso Rivera, John Martin, Kamehameha III, Almeida Garrett, and Marcellin Marbot. After him are Pierre Alphonse Laurent, Samuel Wilson, Nicolás Bravo, Vatroslav Lisinski, Émilie de Villeneuve, and Silvio Pellico.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Jeremias Gotthelf ranks 246 out of 1,015. Before him are Jean Ziegler (1934), Albert Scherrer (1908), Anton Graff (1736), Claude Nicollier (1944), Johann Jakob Bodmer (1698), and Vincent Perez (1964). After him are Rudolf Wolf (1816), Matilda of Habsburg (1253), Johann Peter Hebel (1760), Wilhelm Meyer-Lübke (1861), Heinz Holliger (1939), and Marcel Koller (1960).

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Among WRITERS In Switzerland

Among writers born in Switzerland, Jeremias Gotthelf ranks 25. Before him are Notker the Stammerer (840), Jean Starobinski (1920), Conrad Ferdinand Meyer (1825), Heinrich Glarean (1488), Emma Jung (1882), and Johann Jakob Bodmer (1698). After him are Johann Peter Hebel (1760), Peter Bieri (1944), Arthur Cravan (1887), Edmond Privat (1889), Niklaus Manuel Deutsch (1484), and Isaac Casaubon (1559).

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