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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 82,527 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia. Matthias Claudius is the 2,722nd most popular writer (down from 2,324th in 2019), the 2,818th most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,305th in 2019) and the 174th most popular German Writer.

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  • 29

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.35

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.12

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Matthias Claudius ranks 2,722 out of 5,755. Before him are Christian Friedrich Daniel Schubart, Mary Mapes Dodge, Venceslaus Ulricus Hammershaimb, Max Beerbohm, Tomas Venclova, and Brian Herbert. After him are Ibn Manzur, Itzhak Katzenelson, Angela Carter, Venedikt Yerofeyev, Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon, and Syd Field.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1740, Matthias Claudius ranks 18. Before him are Bernard-René Jourdan de Launay, Louis-Sébastien Mercier, Franz-Joseph Müller von Reichenstein, Adam Philippe, Comte de Custine, James Boswell, and Leopold III, Duke of Anhalt-Dessau. After him are Juan Ignacio Molina, Anders Johan Lexell, John Latham, Johan Tobias Sergel, Princess Ernestine of Saxe-Weimar, and Johan Andreas Murray. Among people deceased in 1815, Matthias Claudius ranks 19. Before him are Smithson Tennant, Prince Josias of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, Frederick William, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, James Gillray, Torii Kiyonaga, and Eberhard August Wilhelm von Zimmermann. After him are Guillaume Philibert Duhesme, Carl Johan Adlercreutz, Francesco Bartolozzi, John Singleton Copley, William Nicholson, and Benjamin Smith Barton.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Matthias Claudius ranks 2,818 out of 6,142. Before him are Amalie of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld (1752), Horst-Dieter Höttges (1943), Günter Wand (1912), Egon Bahr (1922), Adolf Schmal (1872), and Adolf II, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe (1883). After him are Sophie, Princess of Albania (1885), Jens Böhrnsen (1949), Karl Mollweide (1774), Theodor Meynert (1833), Friedrich Kohlrausch (1840), 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 Stefan Heym (1913), Samson Raphael Hirsch (1808), Albert of Aix (1060), Alfred Andersch (1914), Malwida von Meysenbug (1816), and Christian Friedrich Daniel Schubart (1739). After him are Gertrud von Le Fort (1876), Johann Christoph Friedrich GutsMuths (1759), Ludwig Rellstab (1799), Georg Herwegh (1817), Karl Gutzkow (1811), and Dorothea von Schlegel (1764).

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