CHESS PLAYER

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 80,294 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia. Louis Paulsen is the 71st most popular chess player (up from 76th in 2019), the 3,171st most popular biography from Germany (up from 3,178th in 2019) and the most popular German Chess Player.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.66

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.03

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among CHESS PLAYERS

Among chess players, Louis Paulsen ranks 71 out of 461. Before him are Olga Rubtsova, Szymon Winawer, Semyon Alapin, Isaac Boleslavsky, Michael Adams, and Vlastimil Hort. After him are Edward Lasker, Pal Benko, Philipp Stamma, Lev Polugaevsky, Adolf Albin, and Isidor Gunsberg.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1833, Louis Paulsen ranks 37. Before him are Peter Waage, Manuel González Flores, Alfred Clebsch, Félix Bracquemond, Theodor Meynert, and Lazarus Fuchs. After him are Kâmil Pasha, Eugen Langen, Zacharie Astruc, Rosa Vercellana, Friedrich Daniel von Recklinghausen, and Benedykt Dybowski. Among people deceased in 1891, Louis Paulsen ranks 66. Before him are Ion C. Brătianu, Sanjō Sanetomi, Miklós Ybl, Charles Joshua Chaplin, Heinrich Graetz, and Pōmare V. After him are Carl Johan Thyselius, Alexander Potebnja, Theodor Aman, Charles Stewart Parnell, José María Iglesias, and Antonio Ciseri.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Louis Paulsen ranks 3,171 out of 7,253. Before him are John Christian, Count Palatine of Sulzbach (1700), Prince Sigismund of Prussia (1896), Julius Röntgen (1855), Johannes Agricola (1494), Juan José Linz (1926), and Erich Neumann (1905). After him are Ferdinand Reich (1799), Henry V, Duke of Mecklenburg (1479), Walter von Brockdorff-Ahlefeldt (1887), Franz Nissl (1860), Princess Marie of Hesse-Kassel (1796), and Eric Braeden (1941).

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Among CHESS PLAYERS In Germany

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

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