WRITER

Ludwig Thoma

1867 - 1921

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Ludwig Thoma (German: [ˈluːt.vɪç ˈtoː.ma] ; 21 January 1867 in Oberammergau – 26 August 1921 in Tegernsee) was a German author, publisher and editor, who gained popularity through his partially exaggerated description of everyday Bavarian life. After graduation from the Imperial Latin School in Landstuhl (today: Sickingen- Gymnasium Landstuhl), he first studied Forestry in Aschaffenburg, then Law until 1893 in Munich and Erlangen. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ludwig Thoma has received more than 69,743 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Ludwig Thoma is the 5,161st most popular writer (down from 4,553rd in 2019), the 4,793rd most popular biography from Germany (down from 4,095th in 2019) and the 309th most popular German Writer.

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  • 70k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 47.03

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.62

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.33

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Ludwig Thoma ranks 5,161 out of 7,302. Before him are Sufia Kamal, Vera Henriksen, Ismat Chughtai, Pieter Jelles Troelstra, José María de Pereda, and Hallgrímur Helgason. After him are Honorat de Bueil, seigneur de Racan, Peter Härtling, Richard Powers, Viktoriya Tokareva, Elizabeth Goudge, and Per Olof Sundman.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1867, Ludwig Thoma ranks 123. Before him are Hedwig Courths-Mahler, Muhammad Ali Bey al-Abid, Florenz Ziegfeld Jr., Harold Mahony, Frank Brangwyn, and Frederick Keeping. After him are Charles Dana Gibson, Miguel Abadía Méndez, Petr Bezruč, Antonio Conte, Vikenty Veresaev, and Simon Guggenheim. Among people deceased in 1921, Ludwig Thoma ranks 112. Before him are C. I. Scofield, Jean Cau, Leo Königsberger, Rafael Reyes, Jean Aicard, and Nino Martoglio. After him are James H. Johnson, Abbott Handerson Thayer, Eduardo Acevedo Díaz, Lipót Schulhof, William Friese-Greene, and Isak Saba.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Ludwig Thoma ranks 4,793 out of 7,253. Before him are Hubert Hahne (1935), Arno Bieberstein (1886), Didi Senft (1952), Philipp Christoph Zeller (1808), Eberhard Jäckel (1929), and Willy Busch (1907). After him are Peter Härtling (1933), Gloria, Princess of Thurn and Taxis (1960), Manuel Göttsching (1952), Tino Chrupalla (1975), Michael, Prince of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1946), and Duchess Gustave Caroline of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (1694).

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Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Ludwig Thoma ranks 309. Before him are Johann Gottfried Seume (1763), Wolf Erlbruch (1948), Hermann Kant (1926), Heinrich Zschokke (1771), Friedrich Leopold zu Stolberg-Stolberg (1750), and Wolfgang Hildesheimer (1916). After him are Peter Härtling (1933), Joseph Victor von Scheffel (1826), Ralph Giordano (1923), Günter de Bruyn (1926), Franz Xaver Kroetz (1946), and Georg Calixtus (1586).

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