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Philipp Spitta

1841 - 1894

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Julius August Philipp Spitta (27 December 1841 – 13 April 1894) was a German music historian and musicologist best known for his 1873 biography of Johann Sebastian Bach. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Philipp Spitta has received more than 43,454 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Philipp Spitta is the 287th most popular historian (down from 238th in 2019), the 3,514th most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,070th in 2019) and the 34th most popular German Historian.

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  • 58.40

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.89

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.96

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Philipp Spitta ranks 287 out of 561. Before him are Marino Sanuto the Younger, Iryna Melnykova, Claude Cahen, Janko Prunk, Tom Segev, and Ziya Bunyadov. After him are Ludwig von Pastor, Ubbo Emmius, Vardan Areveltsi, Milan Šufflay, Peter Brown, and Dudo of Saint-Quentin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1841, Philipp Spitta ranks 64. Before him are Raimundo de Madrazo y Garreta, Paul Wallot, Tang Jingsong, Eugen Dücker, George Turner, and Adolfo Farsari. After him are Carl Robert Jakobson, Andrejs Pumpurs, John Murray, Federico Zandomeneghi, Laza Kostić, and Carl Tausig. Among people deceased in 1894, Philipp Spitta ranks 49. Before him are Pavel Yablochkov, Federico de Madrazo y Kuntz, Charles Augustus, Hereditary Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Heinrich Karl Brugsch, Émile Henry, and Princess Amalie of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. After him are Wilhelm Georg Friedrich Roscher, Franjo Rački, Rafael Núñez, Jubal Early, Juventino Rosas, and William Robertson Smith.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Philipp Spitta ranks 3,514 out of 7,253. Before him are Franz John (1872), Conrad of Urach (1170), Herbert Erhardt (1930), Christian, Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth (1581), Carl Blechen (1798), and Curt Haase (1881). After him are Wilhelm Georg Friedrich Roscher (1817), Gerhard von Schwerin (1899), Max von Hausen (1846), Archibald Reiss (1875), Ludwig von Pastor (1854), and Max Noether (1921).

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Among HISTORIANS In Germany

Among historians born in Germany, Philipp Spitta ranks 34. Before him are Gerardus Vossius (1577), Fritz Fischer (1908), Arno Peters (1916), Abraham Geiger (1810), Christian Gottlob Heyne (1729), and Max Jakob Friedländer (1867). After him are Ludwig von Pastor (1854), Ubbo Emmius (1547), Kurt Aland (1915), Wilhelm von Bode (1845), Hermann Conring (1606), and Johann Gottfried Eichhorn (1752).

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