WRITER

Ludwig Bechstein

1801 - 1860

Photo of Ludwig Bechstein

Icon of person Ludwig Bechstein

Ludwig Bechstein (24 November 1801 – 14 May 1860) was a German writer and collector of folk fairy tales. He was born in Weimar, the illegitimate child of Johanna Carolina Dorothea Bechstein and Hubert Dupontreau, a French emigrant who disappeared before the birth of the child; Ludwig thus grew up very poor in his first nine years. His situation improved only when his uncle Johann Matthäus Bechstein, a renowned naturalist and forester living in Meiningen in the country of Duchy of Saxe-Meiningen, adopted him in 1810. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ludwig Bechstein has received more than 49,753 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Ludwig Bechstein is the 4,631st most popular writer (down from 4,558th in 2019), the 4,430th most popular biography from Germany (down from 4,099th in 2019) and the 279th most popular German Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 50k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 48.64

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.53

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.99

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Die Sagen Aus Thueringens Fruehzeit, Von Ohrdruf und Dem Inselberge
2018
Märchenbuch
Fairy tales, Tales, Folklore
1935
Das Tolle Jahr : Historisch-romantisches Gemälde Aus Dem Sechzehnten Jahrhundert
2017
Dunkelgraf
2015
Sämtliche Märchen
German Tales, Tales, Tales, German
1965
Wanderungen Durch Thüringen
2012

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Ludwig Bechstein ranks 4,631 out of 7,302. Before him are Angela Sommer-Bodenburg, Friedrich von Hagedorn, James Agee, Oğuz Atay, Adam Asnyk, and Alexander McCall Smith. After him are Nancy Huston, W. S. Gilbert, Molla Vali Vidadi, Kostas Karyotakis, Shuntarō Tanikawa, and Lin Shu.

Most Popular Writers in Wikipedia

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Contemporaries

Among people born in 1801, Ludwig Bechstein ranks 68. Before him are Adolf Fredrik Lindblad, José Joaquín Pérez, Carlo Cattaneo, František Škroup, Henri de Brouckère, and Friedrich Frey-Herosé. After him are William Hallowes Miller, Édouard Spach, Edward William Lane, Christian Erich Hermann von Meyer, Zecharias Frankel, and Georgios Koletis. Among people deceased in 1860, Ludwig Bechstein ranks 53. Before him are Louis Hersent, Anders Sandøe Ørsted, Martin Rathke, Wilhelmine Schröder-Devrient, Nicolaas Pieneman, and Lady Byron. After him are John Neumann, William Martin Leake, Christian Gmelin, Friedrich Christoph Dahlmann, Christian Ferdinand Friedrich Hochstetter, and Francisco Ruiz-Tagle.

Others Born in 1801

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Others Deceased in 1860

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Ludwig Bechstein ranks 4,430 out of 7,253. Before him are Angela Sommer-Bodenburg (1948), Marie Friederike of Hesse-Kassel (1768), Joseph Wendel (1901), Fritz Schäffer (1888), Friedrich von Hagedorn (1708), and Elly Ney (1882). After him are Vladimir Lossky (1903), Landgravine Caroline of Hesse-Rotenburg (1714), Christian Wilhelm Allers (1857), Ludwig Goldbrunner (1908), Markus Grosskopf (1965), and Ilona Slupianek (1956).

Others born in Germany

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Ludwig Bechstein ranks 279. Before him are Murad Wilfried Hofmann (1931), Leopold Andrian (1875), Wilhelm Geiger (1856), Hilde Domin (1909), Angela Sommer-Bodenburg (1948), and Friedrich von Hagedorn (1708). After him are Hedwig Courths-Mahler (1867), Joseph Meyer (1796), Louise Otto-Peters (1819), Hans Werner Richter (1908), Peter Scholl-Latour (1924), and Mirjam Pressler (1940).

German born Writers

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous