WRITER

Sophie von La Roche

1730 - 1807

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Marie Sophie von La Roche (née Gutermann von Gutershofen; 6 December 1730 – 18 February 1807) was a German novelist. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sophie von La Roche has received more than 55,146 page views. Her biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Sophie von La Roche is the 3,423rd most popular writer (down from 3,373rd in 2019), the 3,532nd most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,327th in 2019) and the 213th most popular German Writer.

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  • 55k

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  • 51.77

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  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.18

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  • 3.16

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Geschichte des Fräuleins Von Sternheim
Sophie in London 1786
Description and travel
Geschichte des Fräuleins von Sternheim
Briefe an Lina Als Mutter
Geschichte des Fräuleins von Sternheim
Fiction, Social conditions, Women
Melusinens Sommerabende

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Sophie von La Roche ranks 3,423 out of 7,302Before her are John Evelyn, Corrie ten Boom, Mário de Sá-Carneiro, Giovanni della Casa, Gʻafur Gʻulom, and Juana de Ibarbourou. After her are Marcin Bielski, Gabrielle Roy, Abu Firas al-Hamdani, Alexander Sumarokov, Bing Xin, and Mikhail Prishvin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1730, Sophie von La Roche ranks 26Before her are Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, Louis Auguste Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, Koca Yusuf Pasha, William Hudson, Salomon Gessner, and Henry Clinton. After her are Noël Martin Joseph de Necker, Princess Charlotte Amalie of Hesse-Philippsthal, Karl George Lebrecht, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen, and Daniel Carroll. Among people deceased in 1807, Sophie von La Roche ranks 20Before her are Nikolai Rezanov, Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau, Louis Auguste Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, Alexander Ypsilantis, Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Herbst, and Franciszek Smuglewicz. After her are Jeremias Benjamin Richter, Joseph Brant, Jean-François Rewbell, Johann III Bernoulli, Mikhail Kheraskov, and Oliver Ellsworth.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Sophie von La Roche ranks 3,532 out of 7,253Before her are Ulrik Frederik Gyldenløve (1638), Kurt Adolff (1921), Carl Gustav Witt (1866), Anton Aloys, Prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen (1762), Ernest Frederick II, Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen (1707), and Jutta Kleinschmidt (1962). After her are Frederick, Hereditary Prince of Anhalt-Dessau (1769), Ubbo Emmius (1547), Heinrich XXII, Prince Reuss of Greiz (1846), Josef Frings (1887), Princess Augusta of Saxe-Meiningen (1843), and Otto Wilhelm Thomé (1840).

Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Sophie von La Roche ranks 213Before her are Hedwig Dohm (1831), Erich Weinert (1890), Caesarius of Heisterbach (1180), Curt von Bardeleben (1861), Willibald Pirckheimer (1470), and Herman Grimm (1828). After her are Johann Ernst Glück (1652), Jurij Brězan (1916), Justus Jonas (1493), Theodor Körner (1791), Leonhard Frank (1882), and Gunter d'Alquen (1910).