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Wilhelm Hauff

1802 - 1827

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Wilhelm Hauff (29 November 1802 – 18 November 1827) was a German poet and novelist. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Wilhelm Hauff has received more than 165,273 page views. His biography is available in 40 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 39 in 2019). Wilhelm Hauff is the 784th most popular writer (down from 753rd in 2019), the 765th most popular biography from Germany (down from 672nd in 2019) and the 43rd most popular German Writer.

Wilhelm Hauff is most famous for his fairy tales.

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  • 170k

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  • 62.73

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  • 40

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.57

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.50

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Wilhelm Hauff ranks 784 out of 5,755Before him are Pavel Jozef Šafárik, Mikael Agricola, John Jacob Astor IV, Bettina von Arnim, Artemidorus, and John Fante. After him are Peter Weiss, Arrigo Boito, Alejo Carpentier, Johann Kaspar Lavater, Fyodor Tyutchev, and Ibn Hawqal.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1802, Wilhelm Hauff ranks 9Before him are Archduke Franz Karl of Austria, Niels Henrik Abel, Lajos Kossuth, János Bolyai, Miguel I of Portugal, and Elias Lönnrot. After him are Charles Wheatstone, Heinrich Gustav Magnus, Antoine Jérôme Balard, Germain Henri Hess, Pavel Nakhimov, and Louis-Eugène Cavaignac. Among people deceased in 1827, Wilhelm Hauff ranks 8Before him are Alessandro Volta, Pierre-Simon Laplace, Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi, William Blake, Augustin-Jean Fresnel, and Frederick Augustus I of Saxony. After him are Samuel Crompton, Maria Theresa of Austria, Ugo Foscolo, Ernst Chladni, Armand-Augustin-Louis de Caulaincourt, and Wilhelm Müller.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Wilhelm Hauff ranks 765 out of 6,142Before him are Bettina von Arnim (1785), Paul Breitner (1951), Anselm Kiefer (1945), Ferdinand von Lindemann (1852), Jürgen Klinsmann (1964), and Ernst Otto Fischer (1918). After him are Peter Weiss (1916), Sophia Dorothea of Celle (1666), Hugo Sperrle (1885), Herschel Grynszpan (1921), Frederick II, Elector of Saxony (1412), and Herta Oberheuser (1911).

Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Wilhelm Hauff ranks 43Before him are Georg Büchner (1813), Bert Hellinger (1925), Hugo Ball (1886), Klaus Mann (1906), Karl Harrer (1890), and Bettina von Arnim (1785). After him are Peter Weiss (1916), Hans Fallada (1893), Frank Wedekind (1864), Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock (1724), Theodor Fontane (1819), and Clemens Brentano (1778).