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Otfrid of Weissenburg

790 - 875

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Otfrid of Weissenburg (German: Otfrid von Weißenburg; Latin: Otfridus; c. 800 - after 870 AD) was a monk at the abbey of Weissenburg (modern-day Wissembourg in Alsace) and the author of a gospel harmony in rhyming couplets now called the Evangelienbuch. It is written in the South Rhine Franconian dialect of Old High German. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Otfrid of Weissenburg has received more than 47,858 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Otfrid of Weissenburg is the 3,652nd most popular writer (down from 3,590th in 2019).

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  • 17

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Otfrid of Weissenburg ranks 3,652 out of 7,302. Before him are Ghada al-Samman, John Ashbery, Felix Timmermans, Driss Chraïbi, Gonzalo Torrente Ballester, and Samih al-Qasim. After him are Farrukhi Sistani, Ilya Ilf, Johan Herman Wessel, Firaq Gorakhpuri, Guillaume Musso, and Richard Yates.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 790, Otfrid of Weissenburg ranks 9. Before him are Íñigo Arista of Pamplona, Ramiro I of Asturias, Fatimah bint Musa, Li He, Leo the Mathematician, and Berengar the Wise. After him is Euphrosyne. Among people deceased in 875, Otfrid of Weissenburg ranks 4. Before him are Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj, Louis II of Italy, and Ado of Vienne. After him is Teutberga.

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