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Joachim Ringelnatz

1883 - 1934

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Joachim Ringelnatz is the pen name of the German author and painter Hans Bötticher (7 August 1883, Wurzen, Saxony – 17 November 1934, Berlin). From 1894 to 1900 he lived with his family in the Gottschedstrasse 40 in Leipzig.His pen name Ringelnatz is usually explained as a dialect expression for an animal, possibly a variant of Ringelnatter, German for grass snake or more probably the seahorse for winding ("ringeln") its tail around objects. The seahorse is called Ringelnass (nass = wet) by mariners, an occupation to which he felt kinship. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Joachim Ringelnatz has received more than 69,534 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia. Joachim Ringelnatz is the 4,261st most popular writer (down from 3,846th in 2019), the 4,195th most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,636th in 2019) and the 259th most popular German Writer.

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  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.58

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  • 3.85

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Mein Leben bis zum Kriege
1931
Das Gesamtwerk in sieben Bänden
1982
Turngedichte
1974
Das Gesamtwerk in sieben Bänden
1900
Und auf einmal steht es neben dir
1964

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Over the past year Joachim Ringelnatz has had the most page views in the with 111,214 views, followed by English (8,351), and Russian (1,447). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Galician (113.59%), Esperanto (51.05%), and Spanish (48.45%)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Joachim Ringelnatz ranks 4,261 out of 7,302. Before him are Penelope Delta, James Blish, Yu Dafu, Richard Beer-Hofmann, Guzal Sitdikova, and Richard Pococke. After him are Rube Goldberg, August Ahlqvist, Josef Kajetán Tyl, Krishan Chander, Adalet Ağaoğlu, and Roy Jacobsen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1883, Joachim Ringelnatz ranks 174. Before him are Charles Demuth, Şemsettin Günaltay, Pedro Parages, Paul Götz, Ahmet Ali Çelikten, and Fred Pentland. After him are Rube Goldberg, Huang Fu, D. S. Senanayake, Feodor Gladkov, Élie Lescot, and Tom Moore. Among people deceased in 1934, Joachim Ringelnatz ranks 108. Before him are Georgi Todorov, Kim Sowol, Edgar Jung, Giovanni Brunero, Elizabeth Gertrude Britton, and Surya Sen. After him are Jean-Baptiste Marchand, Pyotr Chardynin, Oskar von Miller, Mikhail Matyushin, Jafar Jabbarly, and Willem Kes.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Joachim Ringelnatz ranks 4,195 out of 7,253. Before him are Bel Kaufman (1911), Princess Gisela Agnes of Anhalt-Köthen (1722), Theodor Hoffmann (1935), Jacob Hübner (1761), Adam Lonicer (1528), and Otto Schily (1932). After him are Johann Leopold, Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1906), Gottlieb von Jagow (1863), Elisabeth Dorothea of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg (1640), Hugo Distler (1908), Peter Schilling (1956), and Claus Offe (1940).

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Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Joachim Ringelnatz ranks 259. Before him are Maximilian Harden (1861), Brigitte Hamann (1940), Detlev von Liliencron (1844), Johann von Rist (1607), Carl Sternheim (1878), and Bel Kaufman (1911). After him are Iwan Bloch (1872), Fritz Reuter (1810), Joachim Heinrich Campe (1746), Herbert Achternbusch (1938), Dorothee Sölle (1929), and Ruth Westheimer (1928).

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