WRITER

Johann Froben

1460 - 1527

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Johann Froben, in Latin: Johannes Frobenius (and combinations), (c. 1460 – 27 October 1527) was a famous printer, publisher and learned Renaissance humanist in Basel. He was a close friend of Erasmus and cooperated closely with Hans Holbein the Younger. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Johann Froben has received more than 57,084 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Johann Froben is the 2,580th most popular writer (down from 2,308th in 2019), the 2,730th most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,400th in 2019) and the 168th most popular German Writer.

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  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.38

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  • 1.76

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Johann Froben ranks 2,580 out of 7,302. Before him are John Millington Synge, Dionysius Periegetes, Friedrich Spee, Cleitarchus, Ignacy Krasicki, and Parvin E'tesami. After him are Elmore Leonard, Edgar Lee Masters, Arthur Young, Constantin von Wurzbach, Juan Ruiz de Alarcón, and Karl Gutzkow.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1460, Johann Froben ranks 24. Before him are Johannes Widmann, Pedro Navarro, Count of Oliveto, Georges d'Amboise, Duarte Pacheco Pereira, Rodrigo de Bastidas, and Svante Nilsson. After him are Antoine Brumel, Boccaccio Boccaccino, João da Nova, Catherine of Foix, Countess of Candale, Eric Trolle, and Thomas Linacre. Among people deceased in 1527, Johann Froben ranks 9. Before him are Diego Columbus, Juan de Grijalva, Christoph I, Margrave of Baden-Baden, Charles de Lannoy, 1st Prince of Sulmona, Casimir, Margrave of Brandenburg-Kulmbach, and Rodrigo de Bastidas. After him are Felix Manz, and Catherine of York.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Johann Froben ranks 2,730 out of 7,253. Before him are George Mosse (1918), Wilhelm Worringer (1881), Ernst Wollweber (1898), Friedrich Spee (1591), Karl Vogt (1817), and Johann Niemann (1913). After him are Balthasar, Landgrave of Thuringia (1336), Wilhelm Beer (1797), Edmund Stoiber (1941), Marie of Baden-Sponheim (1507), Friedrich Traun (1876), and August Schmidhuber (1901).

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Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Johann Froben ranks 168. Before him are Heinz G. Konsalik (1921), Christian Fürchtegott Gellert (1715), Dorothea von Schlegel (1764), George Mosse (1918), Wilhelm Worringer (1881), and Friedrich Spee (1591). After him are Karl Gutzkow (1811), Gertrud von Le Fort (1876), Georg Herwegh (1817), Günter Wallraff (1942), Waldemar Bonsels (1880), and Matthias Claudius (1740).

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