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Matthias Claudius

1740 - 1815

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Matthias Claudius (15 August 1740 – 21 January 1815) was a German poet and journalist, otherwise known by the pen name of “Asmus”. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Matthias Claudius has received more than 89,045 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Matthias Claudius is the 2,631st most popular writer (up from 2,712th in 2019), the 2,786th most popular biography from Germany (up from 2,815th in 2019) and the 174th most popular German Writer.

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  • 60.35

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 30

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.65

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.02

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Matthias Claudius ranks 2,631 out of 7,302. Before him are Neil Simon, Waldemar Bonsels, Orson Scott Card, Abraham ibn Daud, Frederick Marryat, and Józef Czapski. After him are Hella Haasse, Tian Han, Eric Carle, Censorinus, Tayeb Salih, and Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1740, Matthias Claudius ranks 17. Before him are Giambattista Bodoni, Bernard-René Jourdan de Launay, Louis-Sébastien Mercier, Franz-Joseph Müller von Reichenstein, James Boswell, and John Latham. After him are Leopold III, Duke of Anhalt-Dessau, Adam Philippe, Comte de Custine, Johan Tobias Sergel, Juan Ignacio Molina, J. F. Oberlin, and Anders Johan Lexell. Among people deceased in 1815, Matthias Claudius ranks 19. Before him are Smithson Tennant, Frederick William, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Ahmad al-Tijani, James Gillray, Prince Josias of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, and Torii Kiyonaga. After him are Solomon II of Imereti, Eberhard August Wilhelm von Zimmermann, Carl Johan Adlercreutz, Guillaume Philibert Duhesme, Francesco Bartolozzi, and John Singleton Copley.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Matthias Claudius ranks 2,786 out of 7,253. Before him are Ludwig Richter (1803), Friedrich Wilhelm Zachow (1663), Waldemar Bonsels (1880), Joseph Dietzgen (1828), Julian Nagelsmann (1987), and Karl, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg (1813). After him are Henryk Zygalski (1908), Christoph Daum (1953), Ferdinand Christian Baur (1792), Petra Kelly (1947), Jean Malaurie (1922), and Duchess Charlotte Felicitas of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1671).

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Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Matthias Claudius ranks 174. Before him are Johann Froben (1460), Karl Gutzkow (1811), Gertrud von Le Fort (1876), Georg Herwegh (1817), Günter Wallraff (1942), and Waldemar Bonsels (1880). After him are Gustav Schwab (1792), Samson Raphael Hirsch (1808), Cornelia Funke (1958), Ludwig Rellstab (1799), Sebastian Franck (1499), and Mina Witkojc (1893).

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