WRITER

Johann Peter Eckermann

1792 - 1854

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Johann Peter Eckermann (21 September 1792 – 3 December 1854), German poet and author, is best known for his work Conversations with Goethe, the fruit of his association with Johann Wolfgang von Goethe during the last years of Goethe's life. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Johann Peter Eckermann has received more than 74,109 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Johann Peter Eckermann is the 1,213th most popular writer (up from 1,241st in 2019), the 1,216th most popular biography from Germany (up from 1,273rd in 2019) and the 79th most popular German Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 74k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 60.36

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 29

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.35

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.16

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Conversations of Goethe with Eckermann and Soret
Biography, German Authors, Accessible book
In the last years of his life.
1850
Gespräche mit Goethe
1900
Gespräche mit Goethe in den letzten Jahren seines Lebens
1908
Conversations with Goethe
1930
Gespräche mit Goethe in den letzten Jahren seines Lebens
1909
Beiträge zur Poesie
German poetry, History and criticism, Poetry
1911

Page views of Johann Peter Eckermanns by language

Over the past year Johann Peter Eckermann has had the most page views in the with 13,890 views, followed by English (8,209), and Persian (3,170). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Esperanto (73.21%), Macedonian (64.53%), and Catalan (60.87%)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Johann Peter Eckermann ranks 1,213 out of 7,302. Before him are Ida Tarbell, Theodor Storm, Léo Taxil, Daniil Kharms, Alexander Ostrovsky, and Martha Gellhorn. After him are Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald, Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, Albert Barillé, Johannes Valentinus Andreae, Eiji Yoshikawa, and Annemarie Schwarzenbach.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1792, Johann Peter Eckermann ranks 16. Before him are Alexander Ypsilantis, Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen, William, Duke of Nassau, Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen, James Mayer de Rothschild, and Victor Cousin. After him are Johan August Arfwedson, Maria Beatrice of Savoy, Joseph Mohr, John Russell, 1st Earl Russell, Matteo Carcassi, and Carlos Antonio López. Among people deceased in 1854, Johann Peter Eckermann ranks 7. Before him are Georg Ohm, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling, Frederick Augustus II of Saxony, Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen, Abbas I of Egypt, and Hugues Felicité Robert de Lamennais. After him are Charles III, Duke of Parma, Karl Adolph von Basedow, Józef Elsner, Princess Louise Amelie of Baden, Zénaïde Bonaparte, and Fructuoso Rivera.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Johann Peter Eckermann ranks 1,216 out of 7,253. Before him are Hartmut Michel (1948), Karl Richard Lepsius (1810), Henry IV, Duke of Saxony (1473), Princess Christine Louise of Oettingen-Oettingen (1671), Clemens August Graf von Galen (1878), and Infanta Maria Antonia of Portugal (1862). After him are Kurt Gerstein (1905), Klaus Schulze (1947), Johannes Valentinus Andreae (1586), Conrad Schumann (1942), Günther Korten (1898), and Wilhelm Weitling (1808).

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Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Johann Peter Eckermann ranks 79. Before him are Friedrich Maximilian Klinger (1752), Hans Magnus Enzensberger (1929), Gottfried Benn (1886), Rudolf von Sebottendorf (1875), Radegund (518), and Theodor Storm (1817). After him are Johannes Valentinus Andreae (1586), Wilhelm Weitling (1808), Siegfried Kracauer (1889), Jakob Wassermann (1873), Widukind of Corvey (925), and Lina Heydrich (1911).

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