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Johann Ludwig Burckhardt

1784 - 1817

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Johann Ludwig (also known as John Lewis, Jean Louis) Burckhardt (24 November 1784 – 15 October 1817) was a Swiss traveller, geographer and Orientalist. Burckhardt assumed the alias Sheikh Ibrahim Ibn Abdallah during his travels in Arabia. He wrote his letters in French and signed Louis. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Johann Ludwig Burckhardt has received more than 326,240 page views. His biography is available in 38 different languages on Wikipedia. Johann Ludwig Burckhardt is the 761st most popular writer (down from 703rd in 2019), the 80th most popular biography from Switzerland (down from 67th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Swiss Writer.

Johann Ludwig Burckhardt is most famous for his discovery of the temple of Abu Simbel.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Johann Ludwig Burckhardt ranks 761 out of 7,302. Before him are Antonio Machado, Jean Anouilh, Nestor the Chronicler, Epicharmus of Kos, Antonio Tabucchi, and Klaus Ebner. After him are Robert Ludlum, Natalia Ginzburg, Thomas Harris, Gregory Skovoroda, Katherine Mansfield, and Neal Cassady.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1784, Johann Ludwig Burckhardt ranks 8. Before him are Jérôme Bonaparte, Zachary Taylor, Friedrich Bessel, Marie-Antoine Carême, Ernest I, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, and Louis Spohr. After him are Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, Karl Thomas Mozart, Grand Duchess Elena Pavlovna of Russia, Princess Maria Antonia of Naples and Sicily, Rafael del Riego, and Leo von Klenze. Among people deceased in 1817, Johann Ludwig Burckhardt ranks 10. Before him are Charles Messier, André Masséna, Marie Walewska, Karađorđe, Martin Heinrich Klaproth, and Princess Charlotte of Wales. After him are Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin, Fyodor Ushakov, Karl Theodor Anton Maria von Dalberg, Abraham Gottlob Werner, Nakşidil Sultan, and William Bligh.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Johann Ludwig Burckhardt ranks 80 out of 1,015. Before him are Horace Bénédict de Saussure (1740), Augustin Pyramus de Candolle (1778), Alejo Carpentier (1904), Sigismond Thalberg (1812), Werner Arber (1929), and Friedrich Miescher (1844). After him are Félix Vallotton (1865), Kurt Wüthrich (1938), Max Frisch (1911), Heinrich Wölfflin (1864), Alfred Cortot (1877), and Humbert I, Count of Savoy (980).

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Among WRITERS In Switzerland

Among writers born in Switzerland, Johann Ludwig Burckhardt ranks 8. Before him are Carl Spitteler (1845), Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1921), Erich von Däniken (1935), Karl Barth (1886), Robert Walser (1878), and Alejo Carpentier (1904). After him are Max Frisch (1911), Johann Kaspar Lavater (1741), Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz (1878), Gottfried Keller (1819), Annemarie Schwarzenbach (1908), and Blaise Cendrars (1887).

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