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Rahel Varnhagen

1771 - 1833

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Rahel Antonie Friederike Varnhagen (German: [ˈʁaːɛl ˈfaʁnhaːɡən]) (née Levin, later Robert; 19 May 1771 – 7 March 1833) was a German writer who hosted one of the most prominent salons in Europe during the late 18th and early 19th centuries. She is the subject of a celebrated biography, Rahel Varnhagen: The Life of a Jewess (1957), written by Hannah Arendt. Arendt cherished Varnhagen as her "closest friend, though she ha[d] been dead for some hundred years". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Rahel Varnhagen has received more than 116,924 page views. Her biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Rahel Varnhagen is the 2,253rd most popular writer (up from 2,568th in 2019), the 2,343rd most popular biography from Germany (up from 2,551st in 2019) and the 140th most popular German Writer.

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  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.04

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.67

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Rahel Varnhagen ranks 2,253 out of 5,755. Before her are Karel Hynek Mácha, Robert Southey, Pentti Linkola, Noël Coward, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and Salvadore Cammarano. After her are John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester, Claudine Guérin de Tencin, Andrei Voznesensky, Gaston Paris, Vsevolod Garshin, and Rómulo Gallegos.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1771, Rahel Varnhagen ranks 21. Before her are Laskarina Bouboulina, Ferdinando Paer, Frederick William, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Duke Alexander of Württemberg, Gotthelf Fischer von Waldheim, and Mikhail Miloradovich. After her are Jean Rapp, Johann Baptist Cramer, Henry Maudslay, Georges Cadoudal, Fra Diavolo, and Nikolay Raevsky. Among people deceased in 1833, Rahel Varnhagen ranks 22. Before her are Pierre André Latreille, Edmund Kean, Adamantios Korais, Ferdinand Hérold, Duke Alexander of Württemberg, and Antoni Radziwiłł. After her are René Louiche Desfontaines, Kurt Polycarp Joachim Sprengel, Banastre Tarleton, Nannette Streicher, Johann Friedrich Meckel, and Fausto Elhuyar.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Rahel Varnhagen ranks 2,343 out of 6,142. Before her are Wilhelm Peters (1815), Edmund Stoiber (1941), Johann Heinrich Schulze (1687), Ulrich Graf (1878), Joachim Ernst, Duke of Anhalt (1901), and Gundula Janowitz (1937). After her are Charles I, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld (1560), Willi Münzenberg (1889), Sebald Beham (1500), Julius Klaproth (1783), Günther Lützow (1912), and Louis X, Duke of Bavaria (1495).

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Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Rahel Varnhagen ranks 140. Before her are Judith Kerr (1923), Wilhelm Worringer (1881), Heinz G. Konsalik (1921), Ernst von Salomon (1902), Karlheinz Deschner (1924), and Udo Lindenberg (1946). After her are Elisabeth of Schönau (1129), Johann Karl August Musäus (1735), Wieland Wagner (1917), Günter Wallraff (1942), Yehuda Amichai (1924), and Wolfgang Iser (1926).

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