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Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff

1788 - 1857

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Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff (10 March 1788 – 26 November 1857) was a German poet, novelist, playwright, literary critic, translator, and anthologist. Eichendorff was one of the major writers and critics of Romanticism. Ever since their publication and up to the present day, some of his works have been very popular in German-speaking Europe.Eichendorff first became famous for his 1826 novella Aus dem Leben eines Taugenichts (freely translated: Memoirs of a Good-for-Nothing) and his poems. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff has received more than 252,789 page views. His biography is available in 45 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 43 in 2019). Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff is the 986th most popular writer (down from 911th in 2019), the 207th most popular biography from Poland (down from 169th in 2019) and the 18th most popular Polish Writer.

Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff is most famous for his Romantic poetry.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff ranks 986 out of 5,755Before him are Martha Gellhorn, Marguerite Porete, Katherine Mansfield, John William Polidori, Henri Troyat, and Inca Garcilaso de la Vega. After him are Hunter S. Thompson, Saint Gall, Elsa Morante, Imru' al-Qais, Marcus Manilius, and Tess Gerritsen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1788, Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff ranks 13Before him are Infante Carlos, Count of Molina, Catherine Pavlovna of Russia, Robert Peel, Princess Wilhelmine of Baden, Christian Jürgensen Thomsen, and Archduke Rudolf of Austria. After him are Johan Christian Dahl, Étienne Cabet, Ranavalona I, Rama III, Antoine César Becquerel, and Mikhail Lazarev. Among people deceased in 1857, Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff ranks 12Before him are Mikhail Glinka, Dominic Savio, Alfred de Musset, Eugène Sue, Francis Beaufort, and Charles Lucien Bonaparte. After him are Pierre-Jean de Béranger, Johan Christian Dahl, Louis Jacques Thénard, Mangal Pandey, Louis-Eugène Cavaignac, and Josef Ressel.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff ranks 207 out of 1,454Before him are Andrzej Duda (1972), Otto von Below (1857), Hermann Grassmann (1809), Nikolaus von Falkenhorst (1885), Stanislaus of Szczepanów (1030), and Theresa Kunegunda Sobieska (1676). After him are Bolesław II the Generous (1041), Alice Miller (1923), Alexander von Falkenhausen (1878), Heinrich Rickert (1863), Karl Denke (1860), and Grzegorz Lato (1950).

Among WRITERS In Poland

Among writers born in Poland, Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff ranks 18Before him are Osip Mandelstam (1891), Władysław Reymont (1867), Christa Wolf (1929), Olga Tokarczuk (1962), B. Traven (1882), and Jan Potocki (1761). After him are Ernst Toller (1893), Emil Ludwig (1881), Tadeusz Mazowiecki (1927), Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff (1848), Bolesław Prus (1847), and Jerzy Kosiński (1933).