1749 - 1832
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (28 August 1749 – 22 March 1832) was a German polymath and writer, who is widely regarded as the greatest and most influential writer in the German language. His work has had a profound and wide-ranging influence on Western literary, political, and philosophical thought from the late 18th century to the present day. Goethe was a German poet, playwright, novelist, scientist, statesman, theatre director, and critic. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe has received more than 7,410,024 page views. His biography is available in 179 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 176 in 2019). Johann Wolfgang von Goethe is the 4th most popular writer, the 8th most popular biography from Germany and the most popular German Writer.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe is most famous for his novel, Faust. The novel tells the story of a man who sells his soul to the devil in exchange for power and knowledge.
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Among writers, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ranks 4 out of 5,755. Before him are Homer, William Shakespeare, and Dante Alighieri. After him are Fyodor Dostoevsky, J. R. R. Tolkien, Hans Christian Andersen, Voltaire, Edgar Allan Poe, Sophocles, Leo Tolstoy, and Franz Kafka.
800 BC - 750 BC
HPI: 91.42
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1564 - 1616
HPI: 90.88
Rank: 2
1265 - 1321
HPI: 90.51
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1749 - 1832
HPI: 88.78
Rank: 4
1821 - 1881
HPI: 88.66
Rank: 5
1892 - 1973
HPI: 88.02
Rank: 6
1805 - 1875
HPI: 87.84
Rank: 7
1694 - 1778
HPI: 87.55
Rank: 8
1809 - 1849
HPI: 86.74
Rank: 9
497 BC - 406 BC
HPI: 86.65
Rank: 10
1828 - 1910
HPI: 86.31
Rank: 11
1883 - 1924
HPI: 86.23
Rank: 12
Among people born in 1749, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ranks 1. After him are Edward Jenner, Pierre-Simon Laplace, Christian VII of Denmark, Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau, Nicolas Appert, Domenico Cimarosa, Yolande de Polastron, Marie Thérèse Louise of Savoy, Princesse de Lamballe, Lorenzo Da Ponte, Daniel Rutherford, and Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre. Among people deceased in 1832, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ranks 1. After him are Napoleon II, Jean-François Champollion, Jeremy Bentham, Walter Scott, Évariste Galois, Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot, Georges Cuvier, Jean-Baptiste Say, Muzio Clementi, Rasmus Rask, and Princess Amalie of Hesse-Darmstadt.
1749 - 1832
HPI: 88.78
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1749 - 1823
HPI: 79.98
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1749 - 1827
HPI: 77.98
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1749 - 1808
HPI: 73.22
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1749 - 1791
HPI: 70.26
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1749 - 1841
HPI: 68.60
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1749 - 1801
HPI: 67.00
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1749 - 1793
HPI: 65.94
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1749 - 1792
HPI: 65.92
Rank: 9
1749 - 1838
HPI: 64.58
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1749 - 1819
HPI: 60.64
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1749 - 1822
HPI: 59.41
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1749 - 1832
HPI: 88.78
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1811 - 1832
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1790 - 1832
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1748 - 1832
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1771 - 1832
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1811 - 1832
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1796 - 1832
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1769 - 1832
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1767 - 1832
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1752 - 1832
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1787 - 1832
HPI: 63.27
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1754 - 1832
HPI: 61.51
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Among people born in Germany, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ranks 8 out of 6,142. Before him are Albert Einstein (1879), Johann Sebastian Bach (1685), Martin Luther (1483), Karl Marx (1818), Charlemagne (748), and Johannes Gutenberg (1394). After him are Friedrich Nietzsche (1844), Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777), Johannes Kepler (1571), Otto von Bismarck (1815), Max Weber (1864), and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770).
1879 - 1955
HPI: 93.06
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1685 - 1750
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1483 - 1546
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1818 - 1883
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748 - 814
HPI: 89.46
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1394 - 1468
HPI: 89.28
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1749 - 1832
HPI: 88.78
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1844 - 1900
HPI: 87.93
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1777 - 1855
HPI: 87.89
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1571 - 1630
HPI: 87.17
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1815 - 1898
HPI: 86.51
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1864 - 1920
HPI: 86.05
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1770 - 1831
HPI: 85.96
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Among writers born in Germany, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ranks 1. After him are Anne Frank (1929), Hermann Hesse (1877), Friedrich Schiller (1759), Bertolt Brecht (1898), Thomas Mann (1875), Heinrich Heine (1797), Charles Bukowski (1920), Erich Maria Remarque (1898), Heinrich Böll (1917), Novalis (1772), and Friedrich Hölderlin (1770).
1749 - 1832
HPI: 88.78
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1929 - 1945
HPI: 83.42
Rank: 2
1877 - 1962
HPI: 81.43
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1759 - 1805
HPI: 81.34
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1898 - 1956
HPI: 79.22
Rank: 5
1875 - 1955
HPI: 79.06
Rank: 6
1797 - 1856
HPI: 77.71
Rank: 7
1920 - 1994
HPI: 76.52
Rank: 8
1898 - 1970
HPI: 76.51
Rank: 9
1917 - 1985
HPI: 73.92
Rank: 10
1772 - 1801
HPI: 73.65
Rank: 11
1770 - 1843
HPI: 72.30
Rank: 12