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Louis Paulsen

1833 - 1891

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Louis Paulsen (15 January 1833 in Gut Nassengrund near Blomberg, Principality of Lippe – 18 August 1891) was a German chess player. In the 1860s and 1870s, he was among the top players in the world. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Louis Paulsen has received more than 75,076 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia. Louis Paulsen is the 76th most popular chess player (up from 83rd in 2019), the 3,181st most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,046th in 2019) and the most popular German Chess Player.

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  • 51.10

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  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.90

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.21

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among CHESS PLAYERS

Among chess players, Louis Paulsen ranks 76 out of 374Before him are Isaac Boleslavsky, Luděk Pachman, Alessandro Salvio, István Csom, Alexander Petrov, and Gideon Ståhlberg. After him are Friðrik Ólafsson, Grigory Levenfish, Lev Polugaevsky, Reuben Fine, Adolf Albin, and Pal Benko.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1833, Louis Paulsen ranks 38Before him are Theodor Meynert, Zacharie Astruc, Friedrich Daniel von Recklinghausen, Kâmil Pasha, Peter Waage, and Robert G. Ingersoll. After him are Benedykt Dybowski, Lazarus Fuchs, Walter Clopton Wingfield, Maurice Loewy, Félix Bracquemond, and J. E. B. Stuart. Among people deceased in 1891, Louis Paulsen ranks 66Before him are Pōmare V, Charles Stewart Parnell, Konstantin Leontiev, Alexander Potebnja, Amalia Lindegren, and James Russell Lowell. After him are Antero de Quental, Adolphe Alphand, Miklós Ybl, José María Iglesias, Theodor Aman, and Karl Maximovich.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Louis Paulsen ranks 3,181 out of 6,142Before him are Jackson Browne (1948), Kurt Schmitt (1886), Oscar Hertwig (1849), Karl Lehmann (1936), Paul Leni (1885), and Karl Philipp Moritz (1756). After him are Frederick V, Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg (1748), Günther Victor, Prince of Schwarzburg (1852), Rudi Gutendorf (1926), Max Jakob Friedländer (1867), Karl Gegenbaur (1826), and Friedrich von Gärtner (1791).

Among CHESS PLAYERS In Germany

Among chess players born in Germany, Louis Paulsen ranks 1After him are Friedrich Sämisch (1896), Robert Hübner (1948), Jacques Mieses (1865), Jean Dufresne (1829), Tassilo von Heydebrand und der Lasa (1818), Wolfgang Uhlmann (1935), Wolfgang Unzicker (1925), Sonja Graf (1908), Hermann Pilnik (1914), Bernhard Horwitz (1807), and Carl Mayet (1810).