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Berthold Auerbach

1812 - 1882

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Berthold Auerbach (28 February 1812 – 8 February 1882) was a German poet and author. He was the founder of the German "tendency novel", in which fiction is used as a means of influencing public opinion on social, political, moral, and religious questions. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Berthold Auerbach is the 2,320th most popular writer (down from 2,313th in 2019), the 2,504th most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,440th in 2019) and the 152nd most popular German Writer.

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Among writers, Berthold Auerbach ranks 2,320 out of 7,302. Before him are Eduardo Mendoza Garriga, Orderic Vitalis, Lydia Davis, Wahb ibn Munabbih, August Derleth, and Li Yu. After him are Christian Fürchtegott Gellert, Sakya Pandita, Andrey Kurbsky, Johann Peter Hebel, Cornell Woolrich, and Bella Rosenfeld.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1812, Berthold Auerbach ranks 33. Before him are Henry Wilson, Zygmunt Krasiński, Hendrik Conscience, Georges-Charles de Heeckeren d'Anthès, Édouard Séguin, and Józef Ignacy Kraszewski. After him are James Broun-Ramsay, 1st Marquess of Dalhousie, Hermann von Fehling, Filippo Pacini, Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst, Luigi Carlo Farini, and George Allman. Among people deceased in 1882, Berthold Auerbach ranks 39. Before him are Anthony Trollope, Estanislao Figueras, Jørgen Moe, Thomas Hill Green, Konstantin Petrovich von Kaufmann, János Arany, John Nelson Darby, and Georges Leclanché. After him are Johann Karl Friedrich Zöllner, Charles J. Guiteau, Friedrich von Lütke, and Bernhard II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Berthold Auerbach ranks 2,505 out of 7,253. Before him are Anna Schäffer (1882), Karl Genzken (1885), Henry I, Landgrave of Hesse (1244), Helmuth James von Moltke (1907), Friedrich Meinecke (1862), and Johann Ludwig Krebs (1713). After him are Bert Kaempfert (1923), Christian Fürchtegott Gellert (1715), Adolf von Hildebrand (1847), Friedrich Arnold Brockhaus (1772), Friedrich Christian Diez (1794), and Martin Sandberger (1911).

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Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Berthold Auerbach ranks 152. Before him are Rudolf Rocker (1873), Karlheinz Deschner (1924), Uri Avnery (1923), Fred Uhlman (1901), Sebastian Haffner (1907), and Jurij Brězan (1916). After him are Christian Fürchtegott Gellert (1715), Wieland Wagner (1917), Gertrud von Le Fort (1876), Karl Gutzkow (1811), August von Platen-Hallermünde (1796), and Wilhelm Worringer (1881).

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