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Clemens Brentano

1778 - 1842

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Clemens Wenzeslaus Brentano (also Klemens; pseudonym: Clemens Maria Brentano ; German: [bʁɛnˈtaːno]; 9 September 1778 – 28 July 1842) was a German poet and novelist, and a major figure of German Romanticism. He was the uncle, via his brother Christian, of Franz and Lujo Brentano. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Clemens Brentano is the 732nd most popular writer (up from 750th in 2019), the 719th most popular biography from Germany (down from 717th in 2019) and the 39th most popular German Writer.

Clemens Brentano is most famous for his lyrical poems, his fairy tales, and his novel "Godwi oder Das steinerne Bild der Mutter."

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Among writers, Clemens Brentano ranks 732 out of 7,302. Before him are Ed McBain, Columella, Theodore the Studite, Lucan, Jerry Falwell, and Robert Burton. After him are Geoffrey of Monmouth, Abai Qunanbaiuly, Judah Halevi, Cornelia, mother of the Gracchi, Aristarchus of Samothrace, and Louise Hay.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1778, Clemens Brentano ranks 12. Before him are José de San Martín, Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen, Augustin Pyramus de Candolle, Giovanni Battista Belzoni, and Bernardo O'Higgins. After him are Coenraad Jacob Temminck, Fernando Sor, Charles Ferdinand, Duke of Berry, Friedrich Ludwig Jahn, Ugo Foscolo, and Honoré V, Prince of Monaco. Among people deceased in 1842, Clemens Brentano ranks 6. Before him are Stendhal, Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, Luigi Cherubini, Constanze Mozart, and Bernardo O'Higgins. After him are Jules Dumont d'Urville, Ferdinand Philippe, Duke of Orléans, Robert Smith, Bon-Adrien Jeannot de Moncey, Shah Shujah Durrani, and Jean Charles Léonard de Sismondi.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Clemens Brentano ranks 719 out of 7,253. Before him are Karl Gebhardt (1897), Otto Strasser (1897), Frederick Augustus II of Saxony (1797), Georges J. F. Köhler (1946), Steffi Graf (1969), and Matilda of Ringelheim (894). After him are Johann Georg Faust (1480), Nina Hagen (1955), Werner Sombart (1863), Hermann von Salza (1170), Henry Morgenthau Sr. (1856), and Louis Spohr (1784).

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Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Clemens Brentano ranks 39. Before him are Lion Feuchtwanger (1884), Bert Hellinger (1925), Ludwig Tieck (1773), Klaus Mann (1906), Dietrich Eckart (1868), and Georg Büchner (1813). After him are Elisabeth of Wied (1843), Hugo Ball (1886), Bernhard Schlink (1944), Christoph Martin Wieland (1733), Anna Seghers (1900), and Achim von Arnim (1781).

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