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Karl Heinrich Ulrichs

1825 - 1895

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Karl Heinrich Ulrichs (28 August 1825 – 14 July 1895) was a German lawyer, jurist, journalist, and writer. He is today regarded as a pioneer of sexology and the modern gay rights movement. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Karl Heinrich Ulrichs has received more than 372,551 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Karl Heinrich Ulrichs is the 1,383rd most popular writer (up from 1,425th in 2019), the 1,440th most popular biography from Germany (up from 1,486th in 2019) and the 92nd most popular German Writer.

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Notable Works

Incubus
1869
Letters to his kinsfolk
1977
Gladius furens
1977
Karl Heinrich Ulrichs zu Ehren
2000
Alaudae
Medieval and modern Latin literature
2004
Formatrix
1865

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Karl Heinrich Ulrichs ranks 1,383 out of 7,302. Before him are Viktor Suvorov, Robert Browning, Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué, and Mario Benedetti. After him are Aleksandr Kuprin, Lucrezia Tornabuoni, Al-Khalil ibn Ahmad al-Farahidi, Mahadevi Varma, Rodolphe Töpffer, and Don DeLillo.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1825, Karl Heinrich Ulrichs ranks 16. Before him are Emil Erlenmeyer, Marie of Prussia, Dadabhai Naoroji, Julia, Princess of Battenberg, Eduard Hanslick, and Henri Giffard. After him are Henry Walter Bates, Nubar Pasha, Sher Ali Khan, Grand Duchess Alexandra Nikolaevna of Russia, Mór Jókai, and Princess Hildegard of Bavaria. Among people deceased in 1895, Karl Heinrich Ulrichs ranks 22. Before him are Arthur Cayley, Carl Ludwig, Nikolai Leskov, Camilla Collett, Julia, Princess of Battenberg, and Frederick Douglass. After him are Lord Randolph Churchill, Franz Ernst Neumann, Princess Marie Luise Charlotte of Hesse-Kassel, Francesco Filippini, James Dwight Dana, and Eduard Taaffe, 11th Viscount Taaffe.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Karl Heinrich Ulrichs ranks 1,440 out of 7,253. Before him are Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué (1777), Wilhelmina of Prussia, Princess of Orange (1751), Gondioc (450), Christian Friedrich Schönbein (1799), Anton Dostler (1891), and Udo Dirkschneider (1952). After him are Hugo Riemann (1849), Erich Naumann (1905), Georg Baselitz (1938), Franz Ritter von Epp (1868), John George IV, Elector of Saxony (1668), and Saint Afra (300).

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Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Karl Heinrich Ulrichs ranks 92. Before him are Kurt Tucholsky (1890), Rudolf Erich Raspe (1736), Joachim Fest (1926), Hartmann Schedel (1440), Hartmann von Aue (1160), and Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué (1777). After him are Siegfried Lenz (1926), Else Lasker-Schüler (1869), Wilhelm Müller (1794), Arnold van Gennep (1873), Paul Rée (1849), and Christian Friedrich Hebbel (1813).

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