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Adolph Freiherr Knigge

1752 - 1796

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Adolph Franz Friedrich Ludwig Freiherr Knigge (16 October 1752 – 6 May 1796) was a German writer, Freemason, and a leading member of the Order of the Illuminati. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Adolph Freiherr Knigge is the 1,922nd most popular writer (down from 1,531st in 2019), the 2,106th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,629th in 2019) and the 122nd most popular German Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Adolph Freiherr Knigge ranks 1,922 out of 7,302. Before him are Zygmunt Krasiński, Petar Kočić, A. S. Byatt, Naftali Herz Imber, Isaac Titsingh, and Azar Nafisi. After him are Christian Jacq, Arseny Tarkovsky, Gitta Sereny, John Banville, Mikhail Zoshchenko, and Petr Ginz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1752, Adolph Freiherr Knigge ranks 15. Before him are Friedrich Maximilian Klinger, Amalie of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld, Thomas Chatterton, Jacques Roux, Infante Gabriel of Spain, and Duke Wilhelm in Bavaria. After him are Nguyễn Huệ, John Nash, Sébastien Érard, Niccolò Antonio Zingarelli, Pierre Joseph Bonnaterre, and Anton Walter. Among people deceased in 1796, Adolph Freiherr Knigge ranks 14. Before him are Alexandre-Théophile Vandermonde, Samuel Huntington, Pyotr Rumyantsev, Charles of Saxony, Duke of Courland, Jean-Marie Collot d'Herbois, and Johann Daniel Titius. After him are Shahrokh Shah, Franz Anton Maulbertsch, François de Charette, Velu Nachiyar, Prince Louis Charles of Prussia, and Guillaume Thomas François Raynal.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Adolph Freiherr Knigge ranks 2,107 out of 7,253. Before him are Prince Francis Xavier of Saxony (1730), Paul Gerhardt (1607), Louis VI, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt (1630), Princess Adelheid-Marie of Anhalt-Dessau (1833), Karl Gegenbaur (1826), and Walter Brandmüller (1929). After him are Gerhard Schmidhuber (1894), Dora Ratjen (1918), Johannes R. Becher (1891), Kunigunde of Hohenstaufen (1202), Robert Koldewey (1855), and Frederick VI, Margrave of Baden-Durlach (1617).

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Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Adolph Freiherr Knigge ranks 122. Before him are Hans F. K. Günther (1891), Hanns Heinz Ewers (1871), Wilhelm Heinrich Wackenroder (1773), Margarete Buber-Neumann (1901), Salvian (405), and Paul Gerhardt (1607). After him are Jakub Bart-Ćišinski (1856), Ludwig Uhland (1787), Basil Valentine (1394), Anthony Ulrich, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1633), Mina Witkojc (1893), and Joachim Neander (1650).

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