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Bettina von Arnim

1785 - 1859

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Bettina von Arnim (born Elisabeth Catharina Ludovica Magdalena Brentano; 4 April 1785 – 20 January 1859) was a German writer and novelist. Bettina (or Bettine) Brentano was a writer, publisher, composer, singer, visual artist, an illustrator, patron of young talent, and a social activist. She was the archetype of the Romantic era's zeitgeist and the crux of many creative relationships of canonical artistic figures. Best known for the company she kept, she numbered among her closest friends Goethe, Beethoven, Schleiermacher, and Pückler and tried to foster artistic agreement among them. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Bettina von Arnim is the 1,004th most popular writer (down from 689th in 2019), the 996th most popular biography from Germany (down from 651st in 2019) and the 64th most popular German Writer.

Bettina von Arnim is most famous for her correspondence with Goethe and for her novel, "The Enchanted April."

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Among writers, Bettina von Arnim ranks 1,004 out of 7,302. Before her are John Grisham, Joost van den Vondel, Aziz Nesin, Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff, Andrew of Crete, and Agathon. After her are Ouyang Xiu, E. M. Forster, Henri Troyat, Nellie Bly, Ed Bradley, and Lyudmila Ulitskaya.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1785, Bettina von Arnim ranks 11. Before her are Thomas De Quincey, Alessandro Manzoni, Karl Drais, Lin Zexu, William Jackson Hooker, and Claude-Louis Navier. After her are Florestan I, Prince of Monaco, Shah Shujah Durrani, Pierre Louis Dulong, Jean Charles Athanase Peltier, Prince Ferdinand of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, and John James Audubon. Among people deceased in 1859, Bettina von Arnim ranks 18. Before her are Josip Jelačić, Washington Irving, Louis Spohr, John Brown, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, and Archduke John of Austria. After her are Leigh Hunt, Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna of Russia, Walter Hunt, Nana Sahib, Stephanie of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, and Louis Poinsot.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Bettina von Arnim ranks 996 out of 7,253. Before her are Matthias Erzberger (1875), Karl Rahner (1904), Wolfgang Overath (1943), Joost van den Vondel (1587), Nathan Mayer Rothschild (1777), and Therese Neumann (1898). After her are Princess Maria Anna of Saxony (1799), Maurice, Elector of Saxony (1521), Max Ophüls (1902), Louis Ferdinand, Prince of Prussia (1907), Elizabeth Christ Trump (1880), and Frederick II, Elector of Saxony (1412).

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Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Bettina von Arnim ranks 64. Before her are Stefan George (1868), Hrotsvitha (935), Peter Weiss (1916), Frank Wedekind (1864), Hartmann von Aue (1160), and Joost van den Vondel (1587). After her are Johann Peter Eckermann (1792), August von Kotzebue (1761), Charles De Coster (1827), Alfred Brehm (1829), W. G. Sebald (1944), and Ernst Barlach (1870).

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