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Dorothea Viehmann

1755 - 1816

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Dorothea Viehmann (November 8, 1755 – November 17, 1816) was a German storyteller. Her stories were an important source for the fairy tales collected by the Brothers Grimm. Most of Dorothea Viehmann's tales were published in the second volume of Grimms' Fairy Tales. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2024). Dorothea Viehmann is the 3,579th most popular writer (up from 4,216th in 2024). (up from 3,490th in 2019)

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Among writers, Dorothea Viehmann ranks 3,579 out of 7,302. Before her are Marilyn French, Aisha Taymur, Yuri Rytkheu, Thomas Corneille, Musine Kokalari, and Jessie Redmon Fauset. After her are E. W. Hornung, Antoine de la Sale, Torgny Lindgren, Teofilo Folengo, Ozaki Kōyō, and Titus Quinctius Atta.

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Among people born in 1755, Dorothea Viehmann ranks 40. Before her are Jean-Nicolas Corvisart, Gaspard de Prony, Jean Louis Marie Poiret, Nicolas-Jacques Conté, Sarah Siddons, and Jacques Labillardière. After her are Marc-Antoine Parseval, Stanisław Staszic, Nicolas Fuss, Narayan Rao, Thomas Hardwicke, and William Bradford. Among people deceased in 1816, Dorothea Viehmann ranks 22. Before her are Christiane Vulpius, Louis-Bernard Guyton de Morveau, Constantine Ypsilantis, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Julie Billiart, and Countess Palatine Christiane Henriette of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld. After her are Frederick Augustus, Duke of Nassau, Hipólito Ruiz López, Princess Caroline Louise of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Dorothea Jordan, Friedrich Ludwig Schröder, and Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood.

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