COMPOSER

Otto Jahn

1813 - 1869

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Otto Jahn (German: [jaːn]; 16 June 1813, in Kiel – 9 September 1869, in Göttingen), was a German archaeologist, philologist, and writer on art and music. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Otto Jahn has received more than 42,620 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Otto Jahn is the 1,048th most popular composer (down from 1,037th in 2019), the 4,153rd most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,803rd in 2019) and the 156th most popular German Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Otto Jahn ranks 1,048 out of 1,451Before him are Hubert Parry, Alessandro Striggio, Jón Leifs, Kalevi Aho, Manuel Cardoso, and Jāzeps Vītols. After him are Gustav Lange, Józef Kozłowski, Xian Xinghai, Patrick Doyle, Petr Eben, and Alexander Serov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1813, Otto Jahn ranks 58Before him are Prince August of Württemberg, Stephen A. Douglas, Otto Ludwig, Aloys Sprenger, Giovanni Luppis, and Edmond de Sélys Longchamps. After him are Louise-Victorine Ackermann, Franz Delitzsch, Isidore Pils, Semen Hulak-Artemovsky, Japetus Steenstrup, and János Simor. Among people deceased in 1869, Otto Jahn ranks 41Before him are Louis James Alfred Lefébure-Wély, Théophile Thoré-Bürger, Ōmura Masujirō, Vladimir Odoyevsky, Princess Ida of Waldeck and Pyrmont, and Johann Georg von Hahn. After him are Gheorghe Asachi, Carlo Cattaneo, Antonie Brentano, Jean René Constant Quoy, Pyotr Pavlovich Yershov, and Edwin Stanton.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Otto Jahn ranks 4,153 out of 7,253Before him are Susanne Lothar (1960), Camilla Horn (1903), Frederick, Duke of Mecklenburg-Grabow (1638), Theodor Fischer (1862), Princess Pauline of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1852), and Prince Ludwig of Bavaria (1913). After him are Gerhard Marcks (1889), Carl Sternheim (1878), Johannes Brenz (1499), Ludwig Bieberbach (1886), Anton Friedrich Büsching (1724), and Thomas Reiter (1958).

Among COMPOSERS In Germany

Among composers born in Germany, Otto Jahn ranks 156Before him are Gottfried August Homilius (1714), Emil von Sauer (1862), Julius Reubke (1834), Daniel Gottlob Türk (1750), Wolfgang Rihm (1952), and Christoph Ernst Friedrich Weyse (1774). After him are Gustav Lange (1830), Hugo Distler (1908), Frederick Loewe (1901), Jean Gilbert (1879), Johann Nicolaus Bach (1669), and Julius Rietz (1812).