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Theodor Fontane

1819 - 1898

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Theodor Fontane (German pronunciation: [ˈtʰeːodoɐ̯ fɔnˈtaːnə] ; 30 December 1819 – 20 September 1898) was a German novelist and poet, regarded by many as the most important 19th-century German-language realist author. Fontane is known as a writer of realism, not only because he was conscientious about the factual accuracy of details in fictional scenes, but also because he depicted his characters in terms of what they said or did and refrained from overtly imputing motives to them. He published the first of his novels, for which he is best known today, only at age 58 after a career as a journalist. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Theodor Fontane has received more than 343,479 page views. His biography is available in 54 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 53 in 2019). Theodor Fontane is the 848th most popular writer (up from 864th in 2019), the 829th most popular biography from Germany (down from 788th in 2019) and the 48th most popular German Writer.

Theodor Fontane was a German poet and novelist who is most famous for his novel "Effi Briest".

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Among writers, Theodor Fontane ranks 848 out of 5,755. Before him are Valerius Maximus, Cao Xueqin, Ibycus, Rubén Darío, Eleanor Marx, and Antoine Galland. After him are Dio Chrysostom, Božena Němcová, Lafcadio Hearn, Walter Lippmann, Clemens Brentano, and Anna Seghers.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1819, Theodor Fontane ranks 20. Before him are John Ruskin, William T. G. Morton, Chlodwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst, John Couch Adams, Franz von Suppé, and George V of Hanover. After him are Louise Marie Thérèse of Artois, Francis V, Duke of Modena, Allan Pinkerton, Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia, Stanisław Moniuszko, and Gottfried Keller. Among people deceased in 1898, Theodor Fontane ranks 21. Before him are Félicien Rops, Heungseon Daewongun, Henry Bessemer, Syed Ahmad Khan, William Ewart Gladstone, and Eleanor Marx. After him are Edward Burne-Jones, Ferdinand Cohn, Princess Maria Antonia of the Two Sicilies, Prince Gong, Georges Rodenbach, and Zachris Topelius.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Theodor Fontane ranks 829 out of 6,142. Before him are Gottfried Feder (1883), Johannes Peter Müller (1801), Felix Wankel (1902), Joseph Wirth (1879), Max Delbrück (1906), and Frederick Francis II, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1823). After him are Therese Neumann (1898), Fritz Haarmann (1879), John Rabe (1882), Clemens Brentano (1778), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (1925), and Georg von Frundsberg (1473).

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Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Theodor Fontane ranks 48. Before him are Bettina von Arnim (1785), Wilhelm Hauff (1802), Peter Weiss (1916), Hans Fallada (1893), Frank Wedekind (1864), and Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock (1724). After him are Clemens Brentano (1778), Anna Seghers (1900), Achim von Arnim (1781), Kurt Eisner (1867), Hans Sachs (1494), and Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse (1868).

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