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Wilhelm Müller

1794 - 1827

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Johann Ludwig Wilhelm Müller (7 October 1794 – 30 September 1827) was a German lyric poet, best known as the author of Die schöne Müllerin (1821) and Winterreise (1823). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Wilhelm Müller has received more than 131,578 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Wilhelm Müller is the 1,437th most popular writer (down from 1,376th in 2019), the 1,508th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,427th in 2019) and the 95th most popular German Writer.

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  • 130k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 64.59

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 28

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.22

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.52

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Wilhelm Müller ranks 1,437 out of 7,302. Before him are Rafael Alberti, Ivan Vazov, Branko Ćopić, Miklós Zrínyi, Georges Feydeau, and Petar Zrinski. After him are Seamus Heaney, Giuseppe Ungaretti, Qiu Chuji, Hieronymus of Cardia, Virginia Henderson, and Régis Debray.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1794, Wilhelm Müller ranks 10. Before him are Elias Magnus Fries, Infante Francisco de Paula, Duke of Cádiz, Theobald Boehm, William Whewell, Józef Bem, and Ignaz Moscheles. After him are Aimable Pélissier, Eduard Rüppell, Léon Cogniet, Eilhard Mitscherlich, Mirza Shafi Vazeh, and Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius. Among people deceased in 1827, Wilhelm Müller ranks 14. Before him are Wilhelm Hauff, Maria Theresa of Austria, George Canning, Ugo Foscolo, Ernst Chladni, and Samuel Crompton. After him are Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany, Georgios Karaiskakis, Armand-Augustin-Louis de Caulaincourt, Robert Surcouf, Morten Thrane Brünnich, and Michel-Gabriel Paccard.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Wilhelm Müller ranks 1,508 out of 7,253. Before him are Franciscus Sylvius (1614), Fritz Thyssen (1873), Arthur Auwers (1838), Charlotte Amalie of Hesse-Kassel (1650), Peter von Cornelius (1784), and Jupp Derwall (1927). After him are Beno Gutenberg (1889), Stephen II, Duke of Bavaria (1319), Sophia of Bavaria (1376), Hans Burgkmair (1473), Wolfram Sievers (1905), and Friedrich August Wolf (1759).

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Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Wilhelm Müller ranks 95. Before him are Hartmann Schedel (1440), Hartmann von Aue (1160), Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué (1777), Karl Heinrich Ulrichs (1825), Siegfried Lenz (1926), and Else Lasker-Schüler (1869). After him are Arnold van Gennep (1873), Paul Rée (1849), Christian Friedrich Hebbel (1813), August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben (1798), Gottfried August Bürger (1747), and Marianne Weber (1870).

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