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Wilhelm Weitling

1808 - 1871

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Wilhelm Christian Weitling (October 5, 1808 – January 25, 1871) was a German tailor, inventor, radical political activist and one of the first theorists of communism. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Wilhelm Weitling has received more than 154,484 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Wilhelm Weitling is the 1,222nd most popular writer (up from 1,463rd in 2019), the 1,222nd most popular biography from Germany (up from 1,521st in 2019) and the 81st most popular German Writer.

Wilhelm Weitling is most famous for his publication of the Manifesto of the Communist Party in 1847.

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  • 8.65

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  • 2.05

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Notable Works

Wilhelm Weitling correspondence
Die menschheit, wie sie ist und wie sie sein sollte
Communism, Socialism
1845
Das Evangelium des armen Sünders
Communism, Christian sociology, Socialism
1967
Gerechtigkeit
Administration of Justice, Courts, Justice, Administration of.
1929
Das evangelium eines armen sünders
Christian sociology, Communism
1845
Grundzüge einer allgemeinen Denk- und Sprachlehre
Classification of sciences, Knowledge, Theory of., Theory of Knowledge
1991

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Wilhelm Weitling ranks 1,222 out of 7,302. Before him are Albert Barillé, Johannes Valentinus Andreae, Eiji Yoshikawa, Annemarie Schwarzenbach, Jan Długosz, and Raymond Radiguet. After him are Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont, Sarah, Duchess of York, James Anderson, Brian Tracy, Giovanni Verga, and Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1808, Wilhelm Weitling ranks 19. Before him are Johann Gustav Droysen, David Strauss, Maria Malibran, Mohammad Shah Qajar, Carl Spitzweg, and Solomon Northup. After him are Princess Louise of Prussia, George Robert Gray, Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly, Princess Vilhelmine Marie of Denmark, Princess Marie of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, and Nimatullah Kassab. Among people deceased in 1871, Wilhelm Weitling ranks 12. Before him are Michael Thonet, Sigismond Thalberg, Louise of the Netherlands, Omar Pasha, Princess Maria Annunciata of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, and Wilhelm von Tegetthoff. After him are Alexander Afanasyev, Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin, Anna Atkins, Filippo Taglioni, Jarosław Dąbrowski, and Anselme Payen.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Wilhelm Weitling ranks 1,222 out of 7,253. Before him are Johann Peter Eckermann (1792), Kurt Gerstein (1905), Klaus Schulze (1947), Johannes Valentinus Andreae (1586), Conrad Schumann (1942), and Günther Korten (1898). After him are Christian Heinrich Friedrich Peters (1813), Maximilian Anton, Hereditary Prince of Thurn and Taxis (1831), Erika Mann (1905), Princess Cecilie of Baden (1839), Leo von Klenze (1784), and Carl Schuhmann (1869).

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Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Wilhelm Weitling ranks 81. Before him are Gottfried Benn (1886), Rudolf von Sebottendorf (1875), Radegund (518), Theodor Storm (1817), Johann Peter Eckermann (1792), and Johannes Valentinus Andreae (1586). After him are Siegfried Kracauer (1889), Jakob Wassermann (1873), Widukind of Corvey (925), Lina Heydrich (1911), Kurt Tucholsky (1890), and Rudolf Erich Raspe (1736).

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