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Eduard Mörike

1804 - 1875

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Eduard Friedrich Mörike (German pronunciation: [ˈeːdu.aʁt ˈfʁiːdʁɪç ˈmøːʁɪkə]; 8 September 1804 – 4 June 1875) was a German Lutheran pastor who was also a Romantic poet and writer of novellas and novels. Many of his poems were set to music and became established folk songs, while others were used by composers Hugo Wolf and Ignaz Lachner in their symphonic works. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Eduard Mörike is the 1,804th most popular writer (down from 1,521st in 2019), the 1,970th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,618th in 2019) and the 114th most popular German Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Eduard Mörike ranks 1,804 out of 7,302Before him are Slavenka Drakulić, Louis-Sébastien Mercier, Li He, Stéphane Hessel, Augusto Boal, and Ion Luca Caragiale. After him are Stephen Crane, Minamoto no Sanetomo, Paul Goodman, Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa, Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovich of Russia, and Pierre Reverdy.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1804, Eduard Mörike ranks 31Before him are Carl von Rokitansky, Stephan Endlicher, Princess Luisa Carlotta of Naples and Sicily, John Gould, Handrij Zejler, and Ludwig von Benedek. After him are Daniele Manin, Moritz von Schwind, Viktor Bunyakovsky, Louise Farrenc, Aleksander Chodźko, and Aleksey Khomyakov. Among people deceased in 1875, Eduard Mörike ranks 26Before him are Pierre Larousse, Guillaume Henri Dufour, Duchenne de Boulogne, Francis V, Duke of Modena, Jacques Paul Migne, and Friedrich Albert Lange. After him are Henry Wilson, Tristan Corbière, Prince Karl Theodor of Bavaria, Prince Adalbert of Bavaria, Louise Farrenc, and Svetozar Marković.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Eduard Mörike ranks 1,970 out of 7,253Before him are Ernst Engel (1821), Stéphane Hessel (1917), Manfred von Ardenne (1907), Joachim Streich (1951), Karin Dor (1938), and Reinhard Marx (1953). After him are Duchess Amalie in Bavaria (1865), Eduard Wirths (1909), Frederick II, Margrave of Meissen (1310), Fritz Hofmann (1871), Karl Eberhard Schöngarth (1903), and Wilhelm Rediess (1900).

Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Eduard Mörike ranks 114Before him are Christian Friedrich Hebbel (1813), Ludwig Börne (1786), Friedrich Rückert (1788), Theodor Nöldeke (1836), Handrij Zejler (1804), and Stéphane Hessel (1917). After him are Annette von Droste-Hülshoff (1797), Hans F. K. Günther (1891), Hanns Heinz Ewers (1871), Wilhelm Heinrich Wackenroder (1773), Margarete Buber-Neumann (1901), and Salvian (405).