WRITER

Lou Andreas-Salomé

1861 - 1937

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Lou Andreas-Salomé (born either Louise von Salomé or Luíza Gustavovna Salomé or Lioulia von Salomé, Russian: Луиза Густавовна Саломе; 12 February 1861 – 5 February 1937) was a Russian-born psychoanalyst and a well-traveled author, narrator, and essayist from a French Huguenot-German family. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Lou Andreas-Salomé has received more than 1,393,823 page views. Her biography is available in 55 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 53 in 2019). Lou Andreas-Salomé is the 201st most popular writer (down from 194th in 2019), the 70th most popular biography from Russia (up from 74th in 2019) and the 13th most popular Russian Writer.

Lou andreas-salomé is most famous for her relationship with the philosopher Sigmund Freud.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Lou Andreas-Salomé ranks 201 out of 7,302Before her are Juvenal, Luís de Camões, Roald Dahl, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, William Blake, and Karl Adolph Gjellerup. After her are Khalil Gibran, Anna Wintour, Mansur Al-Hallaj, Tristan Tzara, Ray Bradbury, and Stéphane Mallarmé.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1861, Lou Andreas-Salomé ranks 5Before her are Rabindranath Tagore, Mehmed VI, Rudolf Steiner, and Fridtjof Nansen. After her are Georges Méliès, Charles Édouard Guillaume, Ferdinand I of Bulgaria, Victor Horta, Erich von Falkenhayn, Georgy Lvov, and Alfred North Whitehead. Among people deceased in 1937, Lou Andreas-Salomé ranks 11Before her are Pierre de Coubertin, Antonio Gramsci, John D. Rockefeller, Maurice Ravel, Erich Ludendorff, and Amelia Earhart. After her are Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, Mikhail Tukhachevsky, George Gershwin, Gustaf Dalén, Yevgeny Zamyatin, and Gerda Taro.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Lou Andreas-Salomé ranks 70 out of 3,761Before her are Mikhail Kutuzov (1745), Yaroslav the Wise (978), Vasily Zaitsev (1915), Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia (1904), Peter II of Russia (1715), and Peter Carl Fabergé (1846). After her are Stanislav Petrov (1939), Wilhelm Wien (1864), Roman Jakobson (1896), Yevgeny Prigozhin (1961), Anna of Russia (1693), and Paul Karrer (1889).

Among WRITERS In Russia

Among writers born in Russia, Lou Andreas-Salomé ranks 13Before her are Isaac Asimov (1920), Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918), E. T. A. Hoffmann (1776), Vladimir Nabokov (1899), Boris Pasternak (1890), and Ivan Turgenev (1818). After her are Svetlana Alliluyeva (1926), Mikhail Sholokhov (1905), Joseph Brodsky (1940), Mikhail Lermontov (1814), Sergei Yesenin (1895), and Vladimir Vysotsky (1938).