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Joseph Meyer

1796 - 1856

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Joseph Meyer (9 May 1796 - 27 June 1856) was a German industrialist and publisher, most noted for his encyclopaedia, Meyers Konversations-Lexikon. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Joseph Meyer has received more than 12,426 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Joseph Meyer is the 4,849th most popular writer (down from 4,344th in 2019), the 4,256th most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,723rd in 2019) and the 286th most popular German Writer.

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  • 12k

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  • 45.73

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.15

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.26

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Joseph Meyer ranks 4,849 out of 5,755. Before him are José Bergamín, Werner Bergengruen, Osman Nuri Topbaş, Giorgi Leonidze, Álvares de Azevedo, and John Keel. After him are L. J. Smith, Victoire Léodile Béra, Michael Scott, Francis Bebey, Margery Kempe, and Kenneth Copeland.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1796, Joseph Meyer ranks 56. Before him are Phan Thanh Giản, Juan Esteban Pedernera, Wilhelm Hemprich, Karl Leberecht Immermann, John M. Clayton, and Pyotr Anjou. After him are Nikolai Turczaninow, George Back, Robert Wight, John Torrey, John Bell, and Henry De la Beche. Among people deceased in 1856, Joseph Meyer ranks 44. Before him are Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet, Josef Kajetán Tyl, Johan August Wahlberg, Frederick William Beechey, Ivan Kireyevsky, and John M. Clayton. After him are Michel Félix Dunal, Henry Hardinge, 1st Viscount Hardinge, William Yarrell, Thomas Doughty, George Don, and John Eaton.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Joseph Meyer ranks 4,256 out of 6,142. Before him are Michael May (1934), Peter Gilmore (1931), Heinz Strehl (1938), Rainer Brüderle (1945), Lothar Späth (1937), and Veronica Ferres (1965). After him are Johann Andreas Wagner (1797), Johannes Rebmann (1820), Johann Mühlegg (1970), Curt Backeberg (1894), LeVar Burton (1957), and Martin Hoffmann (1955).

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Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Joseph Meyer ranks 286. Before him are Friedrich Leopold zu Stolberg-Stolberg (1750), Christian Gotthilf Salzmann (1744), Wilferd Madelung (1930), E. Marlitt (1825), Jakob van Hoddis (1887), and Günter Kunert (1929). After him are August Spies (1855), Horst Faas (1933), Adolf Bartels (1862), Günther Jauch (1956), Ulrich Plenzdorf (1934), and Ralph Giordano (1923).

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