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Andreas Gryphius

1616 - 1664

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Andreas Gryphius (German: Andreas Greif; 2 October 1616 – 16 July 1664) was a German poet and playwright. With his eloquent sonnets, which contains "The Suffering, Frailty of Life and the World", he is considered one of the most important Baroque poets of the Germanosphere. He was one of the first improvers of the German language and German poetry. Gryphius was born and raised in Glogau (Głogów), Duchy of Głogów, Silesia. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Andreas Gryphius is the 1,655th most popular writer (down from 1,642nd in 2019), the 361st most popular biography from Poland (up from 364th in 2019) and the 31st most popular Polish Writer.

Andreas Gryphius was a German poet and playwright. He is most famous for his play "The Robbers," which is about a group of young men who rebel against the established order.

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Among writers, Andreas Gryphius ranks 1,655 out of 7,302. Before him are Giuseppe Ungaretti, Ildefonsus, Attila József, Maria Valtorta, Quintus Smyrnaeus, and Malcolm Lowry. After him are Adèle Hugo, José Maria de Eça de Queirós, E. Howard Hunt, Bartolomeo Platina, Avraham Stern, and Margherita Sarfatti.

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Among people born in 1616, Andreas Gryphius ranks 9. Before him are Johann Jakob Froberger, Thomas Bartholin, Carlo Dolci, Shah Shuja, Anna de' Medici, Archduchess of Austria, and Anne Gonzaga. After him are Christina Magdalena of the Palatinate-Zweibrücken, Sébastien Bourdon, Kuzma Minin, François de Vendôme, duc de Beaufort, John Owen, and Caesar van Everdingen. Among people deceased in 1664, Andreas Gryphius ranks 5. Before him are Francisco de Zurbarán, Abu al-Ghazi Bahadur, Ivan Vyhovsky, and Ivan Bohun. After him are Miklós Zrínyi, Maria Cunitz, Françoise Madeleine d'Orléans, Henry II, Duke of Guise, William Frederick, Prince of Nassau-Dietz, Archduke Charles Joseph of Austria, and Jan Janssonius.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Andreas Gryphius ranks 361 out of 1,694. Before him are Muazzez Sultan (1628), Henry the Bearded (1163), Maria Clementina Sobieska (1702), Hyacinth Graf Strachwitz (1893), Bolesław IV the Curly (1120), and Johannes Bugenhagen (1485). After him are Avraham Stern (1907), Ernst Wilimowski (1916), Ewald Georg von Kleist (1700), Stanislav Kosior (1889), C. L. Gloger (1803), and Krzysztof Zanussi (1939).

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Among WRITERS In Poland

Among writers born in Poland, Andreas Gryphius ranks 31. Before him are Jan Długosz (1415), Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff (1848), Jan Kochanowski (1530), Albert Barillé (1920), Sławomir Mrożek (1930), and Martin Opitz (1597). After him are Avraham Stern (1907), Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz (1885), Stanisław Wyspiański (1869), Izabela Czartoryska (1746), I. L. Peretz (1852), and Uri Orlev (1931).

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