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Notker the Stammerer

840 - 912

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Notker the Stammerer (c. 840 – 6 April 912), Notker Balbulus, or simply Notker, was a Benedictine monk at the Abbey of Saint Gall active as a composer, poet and scholar. Described as "a significant figure in the Western Church", Notker made substantial contributions to both the music and literature of his time. He is usually credited with two major works of the Carolingian period: the Liber Hymnorum, which includes an important collection of early musical sequences, and an early biography of Charlemagne, the Gesta Karoli Magni. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Notker the Stammerer has received more than 233,744 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Notker the Stammerer is the 1,757th most popular writer (up from 1,812th in 2019), the 178th most popular biography from Switzerland (down from 175th in 2019) and the 19th most popular Swiss Writer.

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  • 27

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.50

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.71

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Two Lives of Charlemagne
Early works to 1800, Kings and rulers, Biography

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Notker the Stammerer ranks 1,757 out of 7,302. Before him are Dorothy Parker, Li Yu, Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay, Alexandre Benois, Princess Michael of Kent, and Karl-Maria Kertbeny. After him are Richard Ford, Anne Perry, Suzanne Collins, Tavo Burat, Friedrich Melchior, Baron von Grimm, and Raymond E. Feist.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 840, Notker the Stammerer ranks 7. Before him are Michael III, Clement of Ohrid, Svatopluk I of Moravia, Pope Theodore II, Richardis, and Wilfred the Hairy. After him are Ya'qub ibn al-Layth al-Saffar, Eudokia Ingerina, Hucbald, and Unruoch III of Friuli. Among people deceased in 912, Notker the Stammerer ranks 9. Before him are Ibn Khordadbeh, Otto I, Duke of Saxony, Abdullah ibn Muhammad al-Umawi, Zhu Wen, Rudolph I of Burgundy, and Ahmad ibn Yusuf. After him is Smbat I of Armenia.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Notker the Stammerer ranks 178 out of 1,015. Before him are Matthias Zurbriggen (1856), Michel Simon (1895), Frithjof Schuon (1907), Jo Siffert (1936), Arthur Cohn (1927), and Viola Amherd (1962). After him are Jacques Charles François Sturm (1803), Isabelle Eberhardt (1877), Alois, Hereditary Prince of Liechtenstein (1968), Joanna of Pfirt (1300), DJ BoBo (1968), and Jonas Furrer (1805).

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Among WRITERS In Switzerland

Among writers born in Switzerland, Notker the Stammerer ranks 19. Before him are Annemarie Schwarzenbach (1908), Blaise Cendrars (1887), Hans Urs von Balthasar (1905), Alfonsina Storni (1892), Antoine-Henri Jomini (1779), and Rodolphe Töpffer (1799). After him are Jean Starobinski (1920), Conrad Ferdinand Meyer (1825), Heinrich Glarean (1488), Emma Jung (1882), Johann Jakob Bodmer (1698), and Jeremias Gotthelf (1797).

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