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Rodolphe Töpffer

1799 - 1846

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Rodolphe Töpffer ( TOP-fər; French: [ʁɔdɔlf tœpfɛʁ]; 31 January 1799 – 8 June 1846) was a Swiss teacher, author, painter, cartoonist, and caricaturist. He is best known for his illustrated books (littérature en estampes, "graphic literature"), which are possibly the earliest European comics. He is known as the father of comic strips and has been credited as the "first comics artist in history." Paris-educated, Töpffer worked as a schoolteacher at a boarding school, where he entertained students with his caricatures. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Rodolphe Töpffer has received more than 149,203 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia. Rodolphe Töpffer is the 1,388th most popular writer (down from 1,370th in 2019), the 138th most popular biography from Switzerland and the 18th most popular Swiss Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Rodolphe Töpffer ranks 1,388 out of 7,302. Before him are Mario Benedetti, Karl Heinrich Ulrichs, Aleksandr Kuprin, Lucrezia Tornabuoni, Al-Khalil ibn Ahmad al-Farahidi, and Mahadevi Varma. After him are Don DeLillo, François de Malherbe, Robin Hobb, Magda Szabó, Dnyaneshwar, and Mendele Mocher Sforim.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1799, Rodolphe Töpffer ranks 14. Before him are Friedrich Wilhelm Argelander, Karl Bryullov, Charles II, Duke of Parma, Fromental Halévy, Anna Atkins, and Christian Friedrich Schönbein. After him are Karl Adolph von Basedow, Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby, John Lindley, Vincenz Priessnitz, Countess of Ségur, and René Caillié. Among people deceased in 1846, Rodolphe Töpffer ranks 10. Before him are Emperor Ninkō, Friedrich List, Andrew Kim Taegon, Francis IV, Duke of Modena, Adam Johann von Krusenstern, and Giuseppe Acerbi. After him are Otto von Kotzebue, Princess Maria Anna of Hesse-Homburg, Jean-Gaspard Deburau, Domenico Dragonetti, Joseph Leopold Eybler, and Maria Severa Onofriana.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Rodolphe Töpffer ranks 138 out of 1,015. Before him are Heinrich Bullinger (1504), Mario Adorf (1930), Emil Abderhalden (1877), Frank Martin (1890), Sophie Taeuber-Arp (1889), and Marthe Keller (1945). After him are Jost Amman (1539), Marina Doria (1935), Jacob Sprenger (1435), Charles Gleyre (1806), Hugo Koblet (1925), and Duarte Pio, Duke of Braganza (1945).

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Among WRITERS In Switzerland

Among writers born in Switzerland, Rodolphe Töpffer ranks 18. Before him are Gottfried Keller (1819), Annemarie Schwarzenbach (1908), Blaise Cendrars (1887), Hans Urs von Balthasar (1905), Alfonsina Storni (1892), and Antoine-Henri Jomini (1779). After him are Notker the Stammerer (840), Jean Starobinski (1920), Conrad Ferdinand Meyer (1825), Heinrich Glarean (1488), Emma Jung (1882), and Johann Jakob Bodmer (1698).

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