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Alfred Brehm

1829 - 1884

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Alfred Edmund Brehm (German pronunciation: [ˈalfʁeːt ˈʔɛtmʊnt ˈbʁeːm]; 2 February 1829 – 11 November 1884) was a German zoologist and writer. His multi-volume book Brehms Tierleben, which he co-authored with Eduard Pechuël-Loesche, Wilhelm Haacke, and Richard Schmidtlein, became a household word for popular zoological literature. He was the first director of the Zoological Garden of Hamburg. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Alfred Brehm is the 1,055th most popular writer (up from 1,096th in 2019), the 1,067th most popular biography from Germany (up from 1,097th in 2019) and the 68th most popular German Writer.

Alfred Brehm is most famous for his book "The Life of Animals," which was published in 1864. The book is a comprehensive collection of information about animals and their habits.

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Among writers, Alfred Brehm ranks 1,055 out of 7,302. Before him are Alfred de Vigny, Marko Marulić, Johannes Tauler, Charles Nodier, Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, and Ernst Toller. After him are Gottfried von Strassburg, Alexander Litvinenko, Sulpicius Severus, Adalbert Stifter, Radoje Domanović, and Robert Graves.

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Among people born in 1829, Alfred Brehm ranks 12. Before him are Levi Strauss, Chester A. Arthur, Asaph Hall, John Everett Millais, Philip Sclater, and Theodor Billroth. After him are N. R. Pogson, Adolf Eugen Fick, Anselm Feuerbach, Elizabeth Siddal, Ranavalona II, and William Booth. Among people deceased in 1884, Alfred Brehm ranks 16. Before him are Charles Adolphe Wurtz, Jean-Baptiste Dumas, Marie Bashkirtseff, Infanta Maria Anna of Portugal, Fanny Elssler, and Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany. After him are Karl Richard Lepsius, Hermann Schlegel, Hans Makart, Allan Pinkerton, Prince Frederick William of Hesse-Kassel, and Paul Abadie.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Alfred Brehm ranks 1,067 out of 7,253. Before him are Johan Zoffany (1733), Erich Heckel (1883), Stefan Lochner (1410), Carl von Linde (1842), Catherine of Saxe-Lauenburg (1513), and Joanna Elisabeth of Holstein-Gottorp (1712). After him are Hanns Eisler (1898), Maria Barbara Bach (1684), Frederick I, Elector of Saxony (1370), Alfred Naujocks (1911), John Frederick, Duke of Brunswick-Calenberg (1625), and Klaus Hasselmann (1931).

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Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Alfred Brehm ranks 68. Before him are Hartmann von Aue (1160), Joost van den Vondel (1587), Bettina von Arnim (1785), Johann Peter Eckermann (1792), August von Kotzebue (1761), and Charles De Coster (1827). After him are W. G. Sebald (1944), Ernst Barlach (1870), Tannhäuser (1205), Marie of Cleves, Duchess of Orléans (1426), Johannes Valentinus Andreae (1586), and Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse (1868).

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