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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 143,094 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Wilhelm Weitling is the 1,466th most popular writer (down from 1,169th in 2019), the 1,521st most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,122nd in 2019) and the 101st 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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  • 140k

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  • 57.88

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.72

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.99

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Wilhelm Weitling ranks 1,466 out of 5,755. Before him are José Mauro de Vasconcelos, Fritz Gerlich, Jean Chapelain, Joseph Mohr, Peter Altenberg, and Ba Jin. After him are Kuvempu, Chico Xavier, Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, Chiara Lubich, William Heinesen, and Khaled al-Asaad.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1808, Wilhelm Weitling ranks 22. Before him are Solomon Northup, Carl Spitzweg, Princess Louise of Prussia, Mohammad Shah Qajar, Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly, and Princess Marie of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach. After him are Princess Vilhelmine Marie of Denmark, Nimatullah Kassab, José de Espronceda, Mindon Min, Emma Darwin, and Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr. Among people deceased in 1871, Wilhelm Weitling ranks 15. Before him are Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin, Omar Pasha, Wilhelm von Tegetthoff, Sigismond Thalberg, Anna Atkins, and Alexander Afanasyev. After him are Charles Paul de Kock, Filippo Taglioni, Jarosław Dąbrowski, Mehmed Emin Âli Pasha, Princess Leopoldina of Brazil, and Pierre Alexis Ponson du Terrail.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Wilhelm Weitling ranks 1,521 out of 6,142. Before him are Werner Best (1903), Wolf Biermann (1936), Ernest Augustus, Crown Prince of Hanover (1845), Karl Albrecht (1920), Bernard of Saxe-Weimar (1604), and Wolfgang Wilhelm, Count Palatine of Neuburg (1578). After him are André Previn (1929), Charlotte Amalie of Hesse-Kassel (1650), Johann Friedrich Gmelin (1748), Carl Gustav Rehnskiöld (1651), Princess Alexandrine of Prussia (1803), and Michael Fassbender (1977).

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Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Wilhelm Weitling ranks 101. Before him are Karl Heinrich Ulrichs (1825), Paul Rée (1849), Arnold van Gennep (1873), Heiner Müller (1929), Christian Morgenstern (1871), and Salvian (405). After him are Gottfried August Bürger (1747), Gustav Landauer (1870), Eduard Mörike (1804), Anton Praetorius (1560), Else Lasker-Schüler (1869), and Marianne Weber (1870).

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