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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 12,344 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Joseph Meyer is the 4,746th most popular writer (up from 4,832nd in 2019), the 4,501st most popular biography from Germany (down from 4,242nd in 2019) and the 281st most popular German Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 12k

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  • 48.30

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  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.91

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  • 2.12

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Journal of Classical and Sacred Philology
Classical philology, Bible, criticism, interpretation, etc.
The Dark Descent
Horror tales, American Horror tales, English Horror tales
pt. 1. The color of evil. The reach / Stephen King -- Evening primrose / John Collier -- The ash-tree / M.R. James -- The new mother / Lucy Clifford -- There's a long, long trail a-winding / Russell Kirk -- The call of Cthulhu / H.P. Lovecraft -- The summer people / Shirley Jackson -- The whimper of whipped dogs / Harlan Ellison -- [Young Goodman Brown](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL455569W/Young_Goodman_Brown) / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Mr. Justice Harbottle -- J. Sheridan Le Fanu -- The crowd / Ray Bradbury -- The autopsy / Michael Shea -- John Charrington's wedding / E. Nesbit -- Sticks / Karl Edward Wagner -- Larger than oneself / Robert Aickman -- Belsen Express / Fritz Leiber -- Yours truly, Jack the Ripper / Robert Bloch -- If Damon comes / Charles L. Grant -- Vandy, Vandy / Manly Wade Wellman -- pt. 2. The Medusa in the shield. The swords / Robert Aickman -- The roaches / Thomas M. Disch -- Bright segment / Theodore Sturgeon -- Dread / Clive Barker -- The fall of the house of Usher / Edgar Allan Poe -- The monkey / Stephen King -- Within the walls of Tyre / Michael Bishop -- The rats in the walls / H.P. Lovecraft -- Schalken the painter / J. Sheridan Le Fanu -- The yellow wallpaper / Charlotte Perkins Gilman -- A rose for Emily / William Faulkner -- How love came to Professor Guildea / Robert Hichens -- Born of man and woman / Richard Matheson -- My dear Emily / Joanna Russ -- You can go now / Dennis Etchison -- The rocking-horse winner / D.H. Lawrence -- Three days / Tanith Lee -- Good country people / Flannery O'Connor -- Mackintosh Willy / Ramsey Campbell -- The jolly corner / Henry James -- pt. 3. A fabulous formless darkness. Smoke ghost / Fritz Leiber -- Seven American nights / Gene Wolfe -- The signal-man / Charles Dickens -- [Crouch End](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL19650699W/Crouch_End) / Stephen King -- Night-side / Joyce Carol Oates -- Seaton's aunt / Walter de la Mare -- Clara Militch / Ivan Turgenev -- The repairer of reputations / Robert W. Chambers -- The beckoning fair one / Oliver Onions -- What was it? / Fitz-James O'Brien -- The beautiful stranger / Shirley Jackson -- [The damned thing](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20084265W/The_Damned_Thing) / Ambrose Bierce -- Afterward / Edith Wharton -- The willows / Algernon Blackwood -- The Asian shore / Thomas M. Disch -- The hospice / Robert Aickman -- A little something for us tempunauts / Philip K. Dick.
Software Engineering Approaches for Offshore and Outsourced Development
The herbalist
Catalogs, Coloring Agents, Dictionaries
Meyers Handbuch über die Literatur
German, Literature, Dictionaries
The Herbalist
Toilet preparations, Herbs, Vegetable Materia medica

Page views of Joseph Meyers by language

Over the past year Joseph Meyer has had the most page views in the with 4,667 views, followed by Swedish (849), and English (816). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Latin (128.28%), Hungarian (115.42%), and Serbo-Croatian (40.85%)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Joseph Meyer ranks 4,746 out of 7,302Before 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 57Before 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 48Before 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 4,501 out of 7,253Before 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).

Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Joseph Meyer ranks 281Before 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).