WRITER

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), 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 124,390 page views. Her biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Rahel Varnhagen is the 2,069th most popular writer (up from 2,246th in 2019), the 2,191st most popular biography from Germany (up from 2,341st in 2019) and the 134th most popular German Writer.

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Notable Works

Aus dem Nachlass Varnhagen's von Ense
1861
Briefwechsel
Correspondence, German Authors
1966
Ein Lebensbild aus ihren Briefen
1900
Ein Frauenleben in Briefen
1912
Rahel
1834
Sketches of German life, and, Scenes from the war of liberation in Germany
Politics and government, History
1861
Rahel
1834
Rahel
1834
Ein Frauenleben in Briefen
1912
Rahel und ihre Zeit
1912
Briefwechsel
Correspondence, German Authors
1966
Lebensbild Aus Ihren Briefen, 1799 Bis 1832
2018

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Rahel Varnhagen ranks 2,069 out of 7,302. Before her are Oscar Milosz, Honoré d'Urfé, Jørgen Moe, Nikolay Dobrolyubov, Vladimír Clementis, and Nihal Atsız. After her are Julius Firmicus Maternus, Ludwig Uhland, Anton Praetorius, Afanasy Fet, Isaac Titsingh, and Ibn Taghribirdi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1771, Rahel Varnhagen ranks 21. Before her are Jean-Andoche Junot, Gotthelf Fischer von Waldheim, Mikhail Miloradovich, Frederick William, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Duke Alexander of Württemberg, and Éleuthère Irénée du Pont. After her are Ferdinando Paer, Nicolas Chopin, Jean Rapp, Fra Diavolo, Georges Cadoudal, and Henry Maudslay. Among people deceased in 1833, Rahel Varnhagen ranks 21. Before her are Abbas Mirza, Michał Kleofas Ogiński, Adamantios Korais, Edmund Kean, Duke Alexander of Württemberg, and René Louiche Desfontaines. After her are Antoni Radziwiłł, Ferdinand Hérold, Nannette Streicher, Fausto Elhuyar, Kurt Polycarp Joachim Sprengel, and Gottlob Ernst Schulze.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Rahel Varnhagen ranks 2,191 out of 7,253. Before her are Wilhelm Röpke (1899), Otto Henry, Elector Palatine (1502), Louis VII, Duke of Bavaria (1368), Konrad von Thüringen (1206), Magdalene of Brandenburg (1582), and Alexander Lippisch (1894). After her are Johann Friedrich Pfaff (1765), Bertha of Sulzbach (1110), Helmut Walcha (1907), Ludwig Uhland (1787), Anton Praetorius (1560), and Wenceslaus I, Duke of Saxe-Wittenberg (1337).

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Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Rahel Varnhagen ranks 134. Before her are Hanns Heinz Ewers (1871), Yehuda Amichai (1924), Rudolf Rocker (1873), Carl Zuckmayer (1896), Wilhelm Heinrich Wackenroder (1773), and Joachim Neander (1650). After her are Ludwig Uhland (1787), Anton Praetorius (1560), C. W. Ceram (1915), Fred Uhlman (1901), Judith Kerr (1923), and Lothar-Günther Buchheim (1918).

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