WRITER

Charlotte Buff

1753 - 1828

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Charlotte Sophie Henriette Kestner (née Buff, 11 January 1753, Wetzlar – 16 January 1828, Hanover) was a youthful acquaintance of the poet Goethe, who fell in love with her. She rejected him and instead married Johann Christian Kestner (1741–1800), vice-archivist and privy councillor to the Hanoverian court. The character of Charlotte, in Goethe's novel The Sorrows of Young Werther, is partly based on her. Their relationship was characterized by heartiness and lack of constraint. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Charlotte Buff is the 2,572nd most popular writer (down from 2,417th in 2019), the 2,753rd most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,540th in 2019) and the 164th most popular German Writer.

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Among writers, Charlotte Buff ranks 2,572 out of 7,302. Before her are David Crystal, Camilo Castelo Branco, Fyodor Sologub, Margit Sandemo, Picander, and Vasile Alecsandri. After her are Malik Muhammad Jayasi, Walter Bagehot, Luo Yixiu, William Peter Blatty, Theodore Abu Qurrah, and Joseph Görres.

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Among people born in 1753, Charlotte Buff ranks 22. Before her are Jean-Pierre Blanchard, Pierre Victurnien Vergniaud, Josef Dobrovský, Shaykh Ahmad, Louis Marie de La Révellière-Lépeaux, and Countess Palatine Maria Anna of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld. After her are Sophia Albertina, Abbess of Quedlinburg, Ludwig von Cobenzl, Matvei Platov, Antoine de Rivarol, François-Paul Brueys d'Aigalliers, and Fyodor Alekseyev. Among people deceased in 1828, Charlotte Buff ranks 23. Before her are Amalie of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld, Sineperver Sultan, Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool, Richard Parkes Bonington, Samuel Frederick Gray, and Gilbert Stuart. After her are Jean-Joseph, Marquis Dessolles, Leandro Fernández de Moratín, Lady Caroline Lamb, François Isaac de Rivaz, Jacques Lauriston, and Rachel Jackson.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Charlotte Buff ranks 2,754 out of 7,253. Before her are Frederick, Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth (1711), Hermann Muthesius (1861), Hans Albers (1891), Anna Maria of Brunswick-Calenberg-Göttingen (1532), Johann Leopold, Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1906), and Paul Levi (1883). After her are Nikolaus Federmann (1505), Ignaz von Döllinger (1799), Joseph Görres (1776), Louis V, Elector Palatine (1478), Adelaide, Abbess of Vilich (960), and Michael Kiske (1968).

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Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Charlotte Buff ranks 164. Before her are Wilhelm Worringer (1881), Caesarius of Heisterbach (1180), Rolf Hochhuth (1931), C. W. Ceram (1915), Ernst von Salomon (1902), and Picander (1700). After her are Joseph Görres (1776), Matthias Claudius (1740), Christian Friedrich Daniel Schubart (1739), Cornelia Funke (1958), Friedrich Spee (1591), and Martin Walser (1927).

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