1784 - 1817
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 220,579 page views. His biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 35 in 2019). Johann Ludwig Burckhardt is the 835th most popular writer (up from 879th in 2019), the 76th most popular biography from Switzerland (up from 86th in 2019) and the 10th 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, Johann Ludwig Burckhardt ranks 835 out of 5,794. Before him are Ernest Thompson Seton, Ève Curie, Abraham Abulafia, Thomas Pynchon, Ivan Franko, and Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sévigné. After him are Juliette Récamier, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Solomon Northup, Pavel Jozef Šafárik, Theognis of Megara, and Patrick White.
1860 - 1946
HPI: 71.34
Rank: 829
1904 - 2007
HPI: 71.33
Rank: 830
1240 - 1292
HPI: 71.33
Rank: 831
1937 - Present
HPI: 71.33
Rank: 832
1856 - 1916
HPI: 71.31
Rank: 833
1626 - 1696
HPI: 71.30
Rank: 834
1784 - 1817
HPI: 71.30
Rank: 835
1777 - 1849
HPI: 71.29
Rank: 836
1807 - 1882
HPI: 71.29
Rank: 837
1808 - 1863
HPI: 71.29
Rank: 838
1795 - 1861
HPI: 71.29
Rank: 839
570 BC - 485 BC
HPI: 71.28
Rank: 840
1912 - 1990
HPI: 71.28
Rank: 841
Among people born in 1784, Johann Ludwig Burckhardt ranks 10. Before him are Friedrich Bessel, Ernest I, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Marie-Antoine Carême, Karl Thomas Mozart, Louis Spohr, and Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston. After him are Leo von Klenze, Grand Duchess Elena Pavlovna of Russia, François Rude, Rafael del Riego, Ferdinand Ries, and Johann Karl Ehrenfried Kegel. Among people deceased in 1817, Johann Ludwig Burckhardt ranks 9. Before him are Charles Messier, Tadeusz Kościuszko, André Masséna, Marie Walewska, Karađorđe, and Martin Heinrich Klaproth. After him are Princess Charlotte of Wales, Abraham Gottlob Werner, Theroigne de Mericourt, Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin, William Bligh, and Fyodor Ushakov.
1784 - 1846
HPI: 75.67
Rank: 4
1784 - 1844
HPI: 73.65
Rank: 5
1784 - 1833
HPI: 73.64
Rank: 6
1784 - 1858
HPI: 72.82
Rank: 7
1784 - 1859
HPI: 72.48
Rank: 8
1784 - 1865
HPI: 71.54
Rank: 9
1784 - 1817
HPI: 71.30
Rank: 10
1784 - 1864
HPI: 70.16
Rank: 11
1784 - 1803
HPI: 70.07
Rank: 12
1784 - 1855
HPI: 69.85
Rank: 13
1784 - 1823
HPI: 69.36
Rank: 14
1784 - 1838
HPI: 68.86
Rank: 15
1784 - 1863
HPI: 68.77
Rank: 16
1730 - 1817
HPI: 77.30
Rank: 3
1746 - 1817
HPI: 77.01
Rank: 4
1758 - 1817
HPI: 75.50
Rank: 5
1786 - 1817
HPI: 74.19
Rank: 6
1768 - 1817
HPI: 74.07
Rank: 7
1743 - 1817
HPI: 73.22
Rank: 8
1784 - 1817
HPI: 71.30
Rank: 9
1796 - 1817
HPI: 70.39
Rank: 10
1749 - 1817
HPI: 69.85
Rank: 11
1762 - 1817
HPI: 69.61
Rank: 12
1727 - 1817
HPI: 68.94
Rank: 13
1754 - 1817
HPI: 68.39
Rank: 14
1745 - 1817
HPI: 68.14
Rank: 15
Among people born in Switzerland, Johann Ludwig Burckhardt ranks 76 out of 749. Before him are Peter Zumthor (1943), Friedrich Miescher (1844), Heinrich Wölfflin (1864), Niklaus Wirth (1934), Johann Kaspar Lavater (1741), and Roger Federer (1981). After him are Brother Roger (1915), Augustin Pyramus de Candolle (1778), Daniel Bovet (1907), Félix Vallotton (1865), Johann Jakob Bachofen (1815), and Jost Bürgi (1552).
1943 - Present
HPI: 71.93
Rank: 70
1844 - 1895
HPI: 71.81
Rank: 71
1864 - 1945
HPI: 71.80
Rank: 72
1934 - Present
HPI: 71.65
Rank: 73
1741 - 1801
HPI: 71.51
Rank: 74
1981 - Present
HPI: 71.46
Rank: 75
1784 - 1817
HPI: 71.30
Rank: 76
1915 - 2005
HPI: 71.17
Rank: 77
1778 - 1841
HPI: 71.06
Rank: 78
1907 - 1992
HPI: 71.06
Rank: 79
1865 - 1925
HPI: 71.02
Rank: 80
1815 - 1887
HPI: 70.94
Rank: 81
1552 - 1632
HPI: 70.90
Rank: 82
Among writers born in Switzerland, Johann Ludwig Burckhardt ranks 10. Before him are Karl Barth (1886), Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1921), Robert Walser (1878), Max Frisch (1911), Alejo Carpentier (1904), and Johann Kaspar Lavater (1741). After him are Gottfried Keller (1819), Blaise Cendrars (1887), Antoine-Henri Jomini (1779), Hans Urs von Balthasar (1905), Annemarie Schwarzenbach (1908), and Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz (1878).
1886 - 1968
HPI: 75.50
Rank: 4
1921 - 1990
HPI: 75.45
Rank: 5
1878 - 1956
HPI: 74.03
Rank: 6
1911 - 1991
HPI: 72.61
Rank: 7
1904 - 1980
HPI: 72.10
Rank: 8
1741 - 1801
HPI: 71.51
Rank: 9
1784 - 1817
HPI: 71.30
Rank: 10
1819 - 1890
HPI: 69.62
Rank: 11
1887 - 1961
HPI: 69.21
Rank: 12
1779 - 1869
HPI: 68.89
Rank: 13
1905 - 1988
HPI: 68.77
Rank: 14
1908 - 1942
HPI: 68.67
Rank: 15
1878 - 1947
HPI: 68.58
Rank: 16