WRITER

Johann Christian Günther

1695 - 1723

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Johann Christian Günther (8 April 1695 – 15 March 1723) was a German poet from Striegau in Lower Silesia. After attending the gymnasium at Schweidnitz, he was sent in 1715 by his father, a country doctor, to study medicine at Wittenberg; but he was idle and dissipated, had no taste for the profession chosen for him, and came to a complete rupture with his family. In 1717 he went to Leipzig, where he was befriended by Johann Burkhard Mencke (1674–1732), who recognized his genius; and there he published a poem on the peace of Passarowitz (concluded between the German emperor and the Porte in 1718) which acquired him reputation. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Johann Christian Günther has received more than 39,385 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Johann Christian Günther is the 4,282nd most popular writer (down from 3,674th in 2019), the 889th most popular biography from Poland (down from 756th in 2019) and the 104th most popular Polish Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Johann Christian Günther ranks 4,282 out of 7,302Before him are Steen Steensen Blicher, Marcel Arland, Richard Hakluyt, Herbert W. Franke, Malika Oufkir, and Edna Ferber. After him are Txillardegi, William Boyd, Jakob Hurt, Benoîte Groult, Leopold Staff, and Veijo Meri.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1695, Johann Christian Günther ranks 15Before him are Martin van Meytens, John Bevis, François de Cuvilliés, Carl Gustaf Tessin, Edward Braddock, and Gustaf Lundberg.  Among people deceased in 1723, Johann Christian Günther ranks 18Before him are Guillaume Dubois, Mariana Alcoforado, Joseph Clemens of Bavaria, Anne Henriette of Bavaria, Jan Santini Aichel, and Claude Fleury.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Johann Christian Günther ranks 889 out of 1,694Before him are Jacob Talmon (1916), Salomon Jadassohn (1831), Johannes Winkler (1897), Szymon Czechowicz (1689), Ludwik Hirszfeld (1884), and Wanda Jakubowska (1907). After him are Paweł Adamowicz (1965), Zygmunt Gorazdowski (1845), Werner Olk (1938), Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski (1503), Klausjürgen Wussow (1929), and Fritz Stern (1926).

Among WRITERS In Poland

Among writers born in Poland, Johann Christian Günther ranks 104Before him are Arno Holz (1863), Anna Langfus (1920), Jan Kott (1914), Jurek Becker (1937), Tadeusz Boy-Żeleński (1874), and Mascha Kaléko (1907). After him are Arkady Fiedler (1894), Marek Hłasko (1934), Florian Ceynowa (1817), Agnieszka Osiecka (1936), Bolesław Leśmian (1877), and Karl von Holtei (1798).