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Joseph Victor von Scheffel

1826 - 1886

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Joseph Victor von Scheffel (16 February 1826 – 9 April 1886) was a German poet and novelist. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Joseph Victor von Scheffel has received more than 48,032 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Joseph Victor von Scheffel is the 5,182nd most popular writer (down from 5,029th in 2019), the 4,807th most popular biography from Germany (down from 4,355th in 2019) and the 311th most popular German Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 48k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 46.97

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.21

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.95

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Ekkehard
Fiction, Hadwig, duchess of Swabia, d. 994-
1855
Der Trompeter von Säkkingen
German language
1863
Gaudeamus!
German wit and humor
1872
The Trumpeter of Säkkingen, Tr. by Mrs. F. Brünnow
2018
Trumpeter of Sackingen
2018
Der Trompeter von Säkkingen
1854

Page views of Joseph Victor von Scheffels by language

Over the past year Joseph Victor von Scheffel has had the most page views in the with 22,958 views, followed by English (5,630), and Russian (1,110). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Finnish (65.31%), Hungarian (57.91%), and Ukrainian (50.15%)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Joseph Victor von Scheffel ranks 5,182 out of 7,302. Before him are John Kaminiates, Adelaide Anne Procter, Alexander Odoevsky, Tony Duvert, Ruth Klüger, and Enric Valor i Vives. After him are Ernie Pyle, Grant Allen, Bart D. Ehrman, Maurice Carême, Juan Meléndez Valdés, and Antti Tuuri.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1826, Joseph Victor von Scheffel ranks 57. Before him are Domenico Morelli, Johann Köler, Hans Peter Jørgen Julius Thomsen, Henry Clifton Sorby, Friedrich Chrysander, and Lea Ahlborn. After him are Emily Blackwell, Matvey Gusev, Sereno Watson, Juan Pablo Rojas Paúl, José María Medina, and José Eusebio Otalora. Among people deceased in 1886, Joseph Victor von Scheffel ranks 50. Before him are Zinovios Valvis, Johan Nicolai Madvig, Albert Küchler, Gustav Fischer, Frederick Guthrie, and Tomás Villalba. After him are Richard Maack, Anna Louisa Geertruida Bosboom-Toussaint, Samuel J. Tilden, Théodore Aubanel, Randolph Caldecott, and Henry Hobson Richardson.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Joseph Victor von Scheffel ranks 4,807 out of 7,253. Before him are Hermann Hirt (1865), Markus Rühl (1972), Dietrich Thurau (1954), Edzard Ernst (1948), Christian Ferdinand Friedrich Hochstetter (1787), and Klaus Sammer (1942). After him are Elena Solovey (1947), Ludwig Wilhelm Gilbert (1769), Zvjezdan Misimović (1982), Norbert Eder (1955), Markus Lüpertz (1941), and Albrecht Becker (1906).

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Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Joseph Victor von Scheffel ranks 311. Before him are Hermann Kant (1926), Heinrich Zschokke (1771), Friedrich Leopold zu Stolberg-Stolberg (1750), Wolfgang Hildesheimer (1916), Ludwig Thoma (1867), and Peter Härtling (1933). After him are Ralph Giordano (1923), Günter de Bruyn (1926), Franz Xaver Kroetz (1946), Georg Calixtus (1586), Fritz von Unruh (1885), and Günther Jauch (1956).

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