1794 - 1827
Johann Ludwig Wilhelm Müller (7 October 1794 – 30 September 1827) was a German lyric poet, best known as the author of Die schöne Müllerin (1823) and Winterreise (1828). Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Wilhelm Müller has received more than 122,629 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Wilhelm Müller is the 1,379th most popular writer (up from 1,422nd in 2019), the 1,427th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,425th in 2019) and the 90th most popular German Writer.
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Among writers, Wilhelm Müller ranks 1,379 out of 5,755. Before him are Rodolphe Töpffer, Hovhannes Tumanyan, Salawat Yulayev, Kenji Miyazawa, Tomi Ungerer, and Henry de Montherlant. After him are Thornton Wilder, John Dryden, Eva Schloss, Don Juan Manuel, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, and Rafael Alberti.
1799 - 1846
HPI: 58.41
Rank: 1,373
1869 - 1923
HPI: 58.41
Rank: 1,374
1754 - 1800
HPI: 58.40
Rank: 1,375
1896 - 1933
HPI: 58.38
Rank: 1,376
1931 - 2019
HPI: 58.38
Rank: 1,377
1895 - 1972
HPI: 58.37
Rank: 1,378
1794 - 1827
HPI: 58.36
Rank: 1,379
1897 - 1975
HPI: 58.36
Rank: 1,380
1631 - 1700
HPI: 58.35
Rank: 1,381
1929 - Present
HPI: 58.34
Rank: 1,382
1282 - 1348
HPI: 58.34
Rank: 1,383
1812 - 1885
HPI: 58.34
Rank: 1,384
1902 - 1999
HPI: 58.34
Rank: 1,385
Among people born in 1794, Wilhelm Müller ranks 9. Before him are Elias Magnus Fries, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Theobald Boehm, Infante Francisco de Paula, Duke of Cádiz, Ignaz Moscheles, and William Whewell. After him are Józef Bem, Aimable Pélissier, Ami Boué, Léon Cogniet, Eduard Rüppell, and Friedrich Christian Diez. Among people deceased in 1827, Wilhelm Müller ranks 14. Before him are Wilhelm Hauff, Samuel Crompton, Maria Theresa of Austria, Ugo Foscolo, Ernst Chladni, and Armand-Augustin-Louis de Caulaincourt. After him are George Canning, Robert Surcouf, Michel-Gabriel Paccard, Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany, Thomas Rowlandson, and Georgios Karaiskakis.
1794 - 1878
HPI: 60.14
Rank: 3
1794 - 1877
HPI: 59.81
Rank: 4
1794 - 1881
HPI: 59.79
Rank: 5
1794 - 1865
HPI: 59.63
Rank: 6
1794 - 1870
HPI: 59.17
Rank: 7
1794 - 1866
HPI: 58.84
Rank: 8
1794 - 1827
HPI: 58.36
Rank: 9
1794 - 1850
HPI: 57.96
Rank: 10
1794 - 1864
HPI: 56.49
Rank: 11
1794 - 1881
HPI: 55.83
Rank: 12
1794 - 1880
HPI: 55.27
Rank: 13
1794 - 1884
HPI: 54.93
Rank: 14
1794 - 1876
HPI: 54.90
Rank: 15
1802 - 1827
HPI: 62.73
Rank: 8
1753 - 1827
HPI: 60.07
Rank: 9
1767 - 1827
HPI: 60.01
Rank: 10
1778 - 1827
HPI: 59.97
Rank: 11
1756 - 1827
HPI: 59.32
Rank: 12
1773 - 1827
HPI: 59.04
Rank: 13
1794 - 1827
HPI: 58.36
Rank: 14
1770 - 1827
HPI: 57.96
Rank: 15
1773 - 1827
HPI: 56.19
Rank: 16
1757 - 1827
HPI: 55.84
Rank: 17
1763 - 1827
HPI: 55.82
Rank: 18
1756 - 1827
HPI: 54.93
Rank: 19
1780 - 1827
HPI: 54.34
Rank: 20
Among people born in Germany, Wilhelm Müller ranks 1,427 out of 6,142. Before him are Reinhart Koselleck (1923), Thomas Tuchel (1973), Elisabeth of the Palatinate (1618), Archduchess Maria Anna Josepha of Austria (1654), Arthur Auwers (1838), and Hannah Höch (1889). After him are Jupp Derwall (1927), Oskar Gröning (1921), Augusta Victoria of Hohenzollern (1890), Frederick II, Elector Palatine (1482), Emil du Bois-Reymond (1818), and Amalia of Solms-Braunfels (1602).
1923 - 2006
HPI: 58.41
Rank: 1,421
1973 - Present
HPI: 58.41
Rank: 1,422
1618 - 1680
HPI: 58.39
Rank: 1,423
1654 - 1689
HPI: 58.38
Rank: 1,424
1838 - 1915
HPI: 58.37
Rank: 1,425
1889 - 1978
HPI: 58.37
Rank: 1,426
1794 - 1827
HPI: 58.36
Rank: 1,427
1927 - 2007
HPI: 58.36
Rank: 1,428
1921 - 2018
HPI: 58.35
Rank: 1,429
1890 - 1966
HPI: 58.35
Rank: 1,430
1482 - 1556
HPI: 58.35
Rank: 1,431
1818 - 1896
HPI: 58.35
Rank: 1,432
1602 - 1675
HPI: 58.35
Rank: 1,433
Among writers born in Germany, Wilhelm Müller ranks 90. Before him are Joachim Fest (1926), Stéphane Hessel (1917), Siegfried Kracauer (1889), Hartmann von Aue (1160), Jakob Wassermann (1873), and Widukind of Corvey (925). After him are Hartmann Schedel (1440), Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué (1777), Siegfried Lenz (1926), August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben (1798), Karl Heinrich Ulrichs (1825), and Paul Rée (1849).
1926 - 2006
HPI: 58.72
Rank: 84
1917 - 2013
HPI: 58.71
Rank: 85
1889 - 1966
HPI: 58.66
Rank: 86
1160 - 1210
HPI: 58.60
Rank: 87
1873 - 1934
HPI: 58.60
Rank: 88
925 - 980
HPI: 58.46
Rank: 89
1794 - 1827
HPI: 58.36
Rank: 90
1440 - 1514
HPI: 58.33
Rank: 91
1777 - 1843
HPI: 58.24
Rank: 92
1926 - 2014
HPI: 58.12
Rank: 93
1798 - 1874
HPI: 58.12
Rank: 94
1825 - 1895
HPI: 58.09
Rank: 95
1849 - 1901
HPI: 58.08
Rank: 96