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Anna Louisa Karsch

1722 - 1791

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Anna Louisa Karsch (1 December 1722 in Hammer, Silesia – 12 October 1791 in Berlin) was a German autodidact and poet from the Silesia region, known to her contemporaries as "Die Karschin" and "the German Sappho".: 619  She became the first German woman to "live from the proceeds of her own literary works." Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Anna Louisa Karsch is the 5,142nd most popular writer (up from 5,632nd in 2019), the 1,039th most popular biography from Poland (up from 1,121st in 2019) and the 127th most popular Polish Writer.

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Among writers, Anna Louisa Karsch ranks 5,142 out of 7,302. Before her are Ahmet Mithat, Arthur Golden, Mykhaylo Semenko, Daša Drndić, Gerbrand Bredero, and Jean Cau. After her are Arvo Valton, Stephen Hunter, Francis Bebey, Wolf Erlbruch, Angela Sommer-Bodenburg, and István Fekete.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1722, Anna Louisa Karsch ranks 24. Before her are Christian IV, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken, Petrus Camper, Nicolas Luckner, Princess Gisela Agnes of Anhalt-Köthen, John Burgoyne, and Princess Ulrike Friederike Wilhelmine of Hesse-Kassel. After her is Christopher Smart. Among people deceased in 1791, Anna Louisa Karsch ranks 17. Before her are Johan Andreas Murray, João de Loureiro, Francesca Lebrun, Besiki, Catharine Macaulay, and Princess Frederica Caroline of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld. After her are Richard Price, Tomás de Iriarte y Oropesa, Benjamin Harrison V, and Francis Hopkinson.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Anna Louisa Karsch ranks 1,039 out of 1,694. Before her are Danuta Szaflarska (1915), Jan Dobraczyński (1910), Lotte Jacobi (1896), Juliusz Machulski (1955), Adam Przeworski (1940), and Marie Juchacz (1879). After her are Walter Krueger (1881), Mariusz Lewandowski (1979), Thadée Cisowski (1927), Sam Spiegel (1901), Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz (1952), and Tadeusz Banachiewicz (1882).

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Among WRITERS In Poland

Among writers born in Poland, Anna Louisa Karsch ranks 127. Before her are Horst Bienek (1930), Alexander Abusch (1902), Kazimierz Przerwa-Tetmajer (1865), Igor Newerly (1903), Halina Poświatowska (1935), and Jan Kasprowicz (1860). After her are Antoni Lange (1862), Anna Świrszczyńska (1909), Wacław Potocki (1621), Heinrich Laube (1806), Narcyza Żmichowska (1819), and Willi Apel (1893).

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