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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 13,193 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Joseph Meyer is the 4,747th most popular writer (up from 4,832nd in 2019), the 4,502nd most popular biography from Germany (down from 4,242nd in 2019) and the 281st most popular German Writer.

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  • 13k

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  • 55.30

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.91

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.12

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Joseph Meyer ranks 4,747 out of 7,302. Before him are Jean Cau, Dharamvir Bharati, José María Heredia y Heredia, Henri Bosco, Jean Tardieu, and Val McDermid. After him are Jacqueline Susann, C. A. Rosetti, Juan de la Cueva, James Salter, Robert Ettinger, and Rafael Sánchez Ferlosio.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1796, Joseph Meyer ranks 57. Before him are Stefano Franscini, William H. Prescott, Karl Leberecht Immermann, Franz von Schober, Wilhelm Hemprich, and Pyotr Anjou. After him are Frederick William Beechey, Phan Thanh Giản, John M. Clayton, George Back, John Torrey, and Nikolai Turczaninow. Among people deceased in 1856, Joseph Meyer ranks 48. Before him are Henry Pottinger, Josef Kajetán Tyl, Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet, Michel Félix Dunal, Ivan Kireyevsky, and Johan August Wahlberg. After him are Frederick William Beechey, John M. Clayton, Nicaise Auguste Desvaux, William Yarrell, Henry Hardinge, 1st Viscount Hardinge, and Thomas Doughty.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Joseph Meyer ranks 4,502 out of 7,253. Before him are Franco Foda (1966), Ferdinand Zirkel (1838), Gottfried Ludolf Camphausen (1803), Elisabeth Eleonore of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1658), Walter Sedlmayr (1926), and Ralph Kronig (1904). After him are Rudolf Harbig (1913), Richard Röstel (1872), Wolfgang Nordwig (1943), Uwe Barschel (1944), Raimond Aumann (1963), and Princess Louise of Prussia (1829).

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Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Joseph Meyer ranks 281. Before him are Wilhelm Geiger (1856), Hilde Domin (1909), Angela Sommer-Bodenburg (1948), Friedrich von Hagedorn (1708), Ludwig Bechstein (1801), and Hedwig Courths-Mahler (1867). After him are Louise Otto-Peters (1819), Hans Werner Richter (1908), Peter Scholl-Latour (1924), Mirjam Pressler (1940), Wolfgang Koeppen (1906), and Cordelia Edvardson (1929).

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