WRITER

Wilhelm Geiger

1856 - 1943

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Wilhelm Ludwig Geiger (; German: [ˈɡaɪɡɐ]; 21 July 1856 – 2 September 1943) was a German Orientalist in the fields of Indo-Iranian languages and the history of Iran and Sri Lanka. He was known as a specialist in Pali, Sinhala language and the Dhivehi language of the Maldives. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Wilhelm Geiger has received more than 62,922 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Wilhelm Geiger is the 4,543rd most popular writer (up from 5,039th in 2019), the 4,374th most popular biography from Germany (down from 4,361st in 2019) and the 275th most popular German Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Wilhelm Geiger ranks 4,543 out of 7,302Before him are Georges Courteline, Gamal El-Ghitani, Jovan Rajić, Eliška Krásnohorská, Russell Kirk, and Źmitrok Biadula. After him are Mihály Csokonai, René Guillot, Sandra Brown, David Mamet, Can Xue, and Kamala Surayya.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1856, Wilhelm Geiger ranks 100Before him are Edmund Beecher Wilson, Gabrielle Réjane, Paul von Jankó, Alberto Palacio, Jinzō Matsumura, and Willem Kes. After him are Günther Beck von Mannagetta und Lerchenau, Alfred Deakin, Nigâr Hanım, Leon Benois, Orville Gibson, and Louis-Gustave Binger. Among people deceased in 1943, Wilhelm Geiger ranks 157Before him are Vittorio Sella, Radclyffe Hall, Helen Herron Taft, Milutin Ivković, Nils Dardel, and Elise Richter. After him are Attila Petschauer, Yusif Vazir Chamanzaminli, Géo André, Gerard De Geer, Seigō Nakano, and Nikolai Avksentiev.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Wilhelm Geiger ranks 4,374 out of 7,253Before him are Karl Friedrich, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen (1712), Hermann Bollé (1845), Georg von Habsburg (1964), August Diehl (1976), Ludwig Knorr (1859), and Matthias Schweighöfer (1981). After him are Richard Schorr (1867), Elfriede Lohse-Wächtler (1899), Else Krüger (1915), Maria Schrader (1965), Ingrid Gulbin (1943), and Hugo von Mohl (1805).

Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Wilhelm Geiger ranks 275Before him are Johann Beckmann (1739), Marie Luise Kaschnitz (1901), Felix Dahn (1834), Uwe Timm (1940), Murad Wilfried Hofmann (1931), and Leopold Andrian (1875). After him are Hilde Domin (1909), Angela Sommer-Bodenburg (1948), Friedrich von Hagedorn (1708), Ludwig Bechstein (1801), Hedwig Courths-Mahler (1867), and Joseph Meyer (1796).