WRITER

Nikolaus Lenau

1802 - 1850

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Nikolaus Lenau was the pen name of Nikolaus Franz Niembsch Edler von Strehlenau (13 August 1802 – 22 August 1850), a German-language Austrian poet. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Nikolaus Lenau has received more than 114,274 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 31 in 2019). Nikolaus Lenau is the 1,352nd most popular writer (down from 1,335th in 2019), the 148th most popular biography from Hungary (down from 140th in 2019) and the 12th most popular Hungarian Writer.

Nikolaus Lenau is most famous for his poem, "Lenau's Evening Song."

Memorability Metrics

  • 110k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 59.36

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 32

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.08

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.01

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Lenau und die Familie Löwenthal
1906
Lenaus Sämtliche Werke...
Savonarola
Poetry, Accessible book
1844
Lenaus Werke
1910
Lenaus sämtliche Werke...mit einer biographischen Einleitung
1855
Lenau's Werke
1888

Page views of Nikolaus Lenaus by language

Over the past year Nikolaus Lenau has had the most page views in the with 31,578 views, followed by English (12,865), and Romanian (3,266). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Egyptian Arabic (100.81%), Belarusian (58.99%), and Finnish (47.55%)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Nikolaus Lenau ranks 1,352 out of 7,302. Before him are Edith Södergran, Georgi Markov, Abu Tammam, Ignazio Silone, Quintus Fabius Pictor, and Mukhtar Auezov. After him are Xavier de Maistre, Jean M. Auel, Robert de Montesquiou, Rudolf Erich Raspe, Daniel Pennac, and James Murray.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1802, Nikolaus Lenau ranks 19. Before him are Heinrich Gustav Magnus, Pavel Nakhimov, Husein Gradaščević, Antoine Jérôme Balard, Harriet Martineau, and Alcide d'Orbigny. After him are Hermann Goldschmidt, Ignacy Domeyko, Charlotte Bonaparte, Carl Ritter von Ghega, Charles Auguste de Bériot, and Johann Friedrich von Brandt. Among people deceased in 1850, Nikolaus Lenau ranks 17. Before him are Louise of Orléans, Johann Heinrich von Thünen, Lin Zexu, Germain Henri Hess, José Gervasio Artigas, and Robert Peel. After him are Jean-Pierre Boyer, Józef Bem, Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge, Adam Oehlenschläger, William Sturgeon, and Vincent Pallotti.

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In Hungary

Among people born in Hungary, Nikolaus Lenau ranks 148 out of 1,077. Before him are Béla Tarr (1955), Michael Polanyi (1891), György Sárosi (1912), Brassaï (1899), Gyula Lóránt (1923), and Leopold Auer (1845). After him are Ágnes Keleti (1921), Gusztáv Jány (1883), Ferenc Mádl (1931), Magda Szabó (1917), Béla Balázs (1884), and Ferenc Bene (1944).

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Among WRITERS In Hungary

Among writers born in Hungary, Nikolaus Lenau ranks 12. Before him are Arthur Koestler (1905), Ferenc Molnár (1878), Felix Salten (1869), Ján Kollár (1793), Ephraim Kishon (1924), and Max Nordau (1849). After him are Magda Szabó (1917), Béla Balázs (1884), Miklós Zrínyi (1620), Mór Jókai (1825), Attila József (1905), and Péter Nádas (1942).

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