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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 296,223 page views. His biography is available in 38 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 37 in 2019). Johann Ludwig Burckhardt is the 704th most popular writer (up from 835th in 2019), the 67th most popular biography from Switzerland (up from 76th 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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  • 300k

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  • 63.70

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  • 38

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 9.05

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.50

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Johann Ludwig Burckhardt ranks 704 out of 5,755. Before him are Jacinto Benavente, Dashiell Hammett, Jean Froissart, Arto Paasilinna, John Dos Passos, and Jun'ichirō Tanizaki. After him are Frederick Forsyth, Chevalier d'Éon, Joseph Campbell, Tukaram, Jin Yong, and Alexander Blok.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1784, Johann Ludwig Burckhardt ranks 9. Before him are Zachary Taylor, Ernest I, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Friedrich Bessel, Karl Thomas Mozart, Marie-Antoine Carême, and Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston. After him are Louis Spohr, Grand Duchess Elena Pavlovna of Russia, Leo von Klenze, François Rude, Rafael del Riego, and Friedrich Kalkbrenner. Among people deceased in 1817, Johann Ludwig Burckhardt ranks 9. Before him are Tadeusz Kościuszko, André Masséna, Charles Messier, Karađorđe, Marie Walewska, and Martin Heinrich Klaproth. After him are Princess Charlotte of Wales, Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin, Theroigne de Mericourt, William Bligh, Fyodor Ushakov, and Karl Theodor Anton Maria von Dalberg.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Johann Ludwig Burckhardt ranks 67 out of 876. Before him are Walter Rudolf Hess (1881), Paul Hermann Müller (1899), Emil Jannings (1884), Alexandre Yersin (1863), Max Frisch (1911), and Alisha Lehmann (23). After him are Roger Federer (1981), Peter Zumthor (1943), Richard R. Ernst (1933), Siegfried Wagner (1869), Domenico Fontana (1543), and Lys Assia (1924).

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Among WRITERS In Switzerland

Among writers born in Switzerland, Johann Ludwig Burckhardt ranks 8. Before him are Carl Spitteler (1845), Erich von Däniken (1935), Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1921), Karl Barth (1886), Robert Walser (1878), and Max Frisch (1911). After him are Alejo Carpentier (1904), Johann Kaspar Lavater (1741), Hans Urs von Balthasar (1905), Gottfried Keller (1819), Blaise Cendrars (1887), and Annemarie Schwarzenbach (1908).

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