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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 39,863 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Philipp Spitta is the 238th most popular historian (up from 252nd in 2019), the 3,073rd most popular biography from Germany (up from 3,361st in 2019) and the 29th most popular German Historian.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.46

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.72

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Philipp Spitta ranks 238 out of 339. Before him are Marc Ferro, Saul Friedländer, John King Fairbank, Albert Soboul, Zeev Sternhell, and Ibn Hayyan. After him are Karl Otfried Müller, Charles Rollin, Gustave Schlumberger, Jean Delumeau, Wilhelm von Bode, and Stéphane Courtois.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1841, Philipp Spitta ranks 56. Before him are Vasily Klyuchevsky, Giovanni Sgambati, Luigi Luzzatti, Catulle Mendès, Elfrida Andrée, and Theodor von Oppolzer. After him are Carl Robert Jakobson, Raimundo de Madrazo y Garreta, Federico Zandomeneghi, John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher, Carl Tausig, and Evelyn Baring, 1st Earl of Cromer. Among people deceased in 1894, Philipp Spitta ranks 46. Before him are Marietta Alboni, Federico de Madrazo y Kuntz, William Robertson Smith, William Waddington, Juventino Rosas, and Pavel Yablochkov. After him are Charles Laval, Amelia Bloomer, Wilhelm Georg Friedrich Roscher, Rafael Núñez, Charles-Édouard Brown-Séquard, and Franjo Rački.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Philipp Spitta ranks 3,073 out of 6,142. Before him are Elisabeth of Hesse, Electress Palatine (1539), Heinrich von Brentano (1904), Konrad Duden (1829), Robert Kovač (1974), Arno Schmidt (1914), and Manfred Winkelhock (1951). After him are Wilhelm Friedrich, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein (1891), Thomas de Maizière (1954), Frederick William, Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1675), Hermann Burmeister (1807), Paul van Dyk (1971), and Alojs Andritzki (1914).

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Among HISTORIANS In Germany

Among historians born in Germany, Philipp Spitta ranks 29. Before him are Gerardus Vossius (1577), Abraham Geiger (1810), Fritz Fischer (1908), Christian Gottlob Heyne (1729), Karl Krumbacher (1856), and Friedrich Meinecke (1862). After him are Wilhelm von Bode (1845), Johannes Aventinus (1477), Max Jakob Friedländer (1867), Walter Burkert (1931), Johann Nikolaus von Hontheim (1701), and Ubbo Emmius (1547).

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