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Johann Jakob Breitinger

1701 - 1776

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Johann Jakob Breitinger (1 March 1701 in Zürich – 14 December 1776) was a Swiss philologist and author. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Johann Jakob Breitinger has received more than 17,496 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Johann Jakob Breitinger is the 4,445th most popular writer (down from 4,080th in 2019), the 436th most popular biography from Switzerland (down from 380th in 2019) and the 42nd most popular Swiss Writer.

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  • 16

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  • 1.92

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Johann Jakob Breitinger ranks 4,445 out of 5,755Before him are Fran Levstik, Karel Sabina, Dulce María Loynaz, Roberto Saviano, Zainab Biisheva, and Zhu Ziqing. After him are Kazimierz Przerwa-Tetmajer, Irving Wallace, Keri Hulme, Christopher Priest, Hilde Domin, and Marilyn French.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1701, Johann Jakob Breitinger ranks 15Before him are Alvise Giovanni Mocenigo, Johan Agrell, Dmitry Laptev, Johann Nikolaus von Hontheim, Nicolai Eigtved, and Wu Jingzi.  Among people deceased in 1776, Johann Jakob Breitinger ranks 12Before him are Jeanne Julie Éléonore de Lespinasse, Duchess Maria Anna Josepha of Bavaria, Philipp Ludwig Statius Müller, John Ellis, Sabah I bin Jaber, and Johann Adolf Scheibe. After him are Nathan Hale and James Ferguson.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Johann Jakob Breitinger ranks 436 out of 876Before him are Princess Nora of Liechtenstein (1950), Lionel Dunsterville (1865), Max Petitpierre (1899), Paul Scherrer (1890), Johann Amman (1707), and Pipilotti Rist (1962). After him are Massimo Busacca (1969), Heinrich Schmid (1921), Philipp Etter (1891), Joseph Benz (1944), Arnold Koller (1933), and Kaspar Villiger (1941).

Among WRITERS In Switzerland

Among writers born in Switzerland, Johann Jakob Breitinger ranks 42Before him are Peter Bichsel (1935), Fernán Caballero (1796), Robert Pinget (1919), Nicolas Bouvier (1929), Alain de Botton (1969), and Johann David Wyss (1743). After him are Martin Suter (1948), Urs Widmer (1938), Béatrix Beck (1914), Adolf Muschg (1934), Joël Dicker (1985), and Kurt Marti (1921).