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Johann Heinrich Voss

1751 - 1826

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Johann Heinrich Voss (German: Voß, pronounced [fɔs]; 20 February 1751 – 29 March 1826) was a German classicist and poet, known mostly for his translation of Homer's Odyssey (1781) and Iliad (1793) into German. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Johann Heinrich Voss has received more than 49,919 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Johann Heinrich Voss is the 3,637th most popular writer (down from 3,570th in 2019), the 3,696th most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,469th in 2019) and the 221st most popular German Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Johann Heinrich Voss ranks 3,637 out of 7,302. Before him are Vasco Pratolini, Hansa Jivraj Mehta, Valentin Vodnik, François de La Mothe Le Vayer, Andrija Kačić Miošić, and Lesches. After him are Aleksey Pisemsky, Michitsuna's mother, Alessandro Tassoni, Ivo Vojnović, Tibor Déry, and Eiko Kadono.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1751, Johann Heinrich Voss ranks 24. Before him are François Joseph Westermann, Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 1st Earl of Minto, Princess Charlotte of Saxe-Meiningen, Julie Billiart, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, and Anders Dahl. After him are Uesugi Harunori, William Roxburgh, John Abbot, Corona Schröter, Johan Henric Kellgren, and George Montagu. Among people deceased in 1826, Johann Heinrich Voss ranks 42. Before him are Anton Walter, Christian Kramp, Jens Baggesen, J. F. Oberlin, Kondraty Ryleyev, and Alexander Gordon Laing. After him are Stanisław Staszic, Germanos III of Old Patras, Jacob Hübner, Nicolas Fuss, Friedrich August Marschall von Bieberstein, and John Farey Sr..

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Johann Heinrich Voss ranks 3,696 out of 7,253. Before him are Heinrich Albert (1604), Konrad Wolf (1925), Ludwig Kaas (1881), Friedrich Wilhelm, Count Brandenburg (1792), A. R. Penck (1939), and Hermann Wissmann (1853). After him are Walter Noddack (1893), Anita Augspurg (1857), Moritz Balthasar Borkhausen (1760), Herman Sörgel (1885), Princess Wilhelmina of Hesse-Kassel (1726), and Hans Heyer (1943).

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Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Johann Heinrich Voss ranks 221. Before him are Jurij Brězan (1916), Justus Jonas (1493), Theodor Körner (1791), Leonhard Frank (1882), Gunter d'Alquen (1910), and Günter Eich (1907). After him are Sylvia Nasar (1947), Robert Jungk (1913), Glückel of Hameln (1646), Bruno Apitz (1900), Friedrich Theodor Vischer (1807), and Ferdinand Freiligrath (1810).

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