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Franz Overbeck

1837 - 1905

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Franz Camille Overbeck (16 November 1837 – 26 June 1905) was a Russian-born German Protestant theologian. In Anglo-American discourse, he is perhaps best known in regard to his friendship with Friedrich Nietzsche; in German theological circles, Overbeck remains discussed for his own contributions. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Franz Overbeck is the 2,727th most popular writer (up from 2,749th in 2019), the 936th most popular biography from Russia (up from 1,030th in 2019) and the 110th most popular Russian Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Franz Overbeck ranks 2,727 out of 7,302Before him are Patrick O'Brian, Táhirih, Peter Bieri, Herman Wouk, Wilfred Owen, and Michael Ondaatje. After him are Pierre Gringore, Tadeusz Różewicz, Osman Aqçoqraqlı, Pauline von Metternich, José Giovanni, and Branwell Brontë.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1837, Franz Overbeck ranks 57Before him are Liu Yongfu, Itagaki Taisuke, Nicolás Avellaneda, Zhang Zhidong, Hans von Marées, and Moritz Kaposi. After him are Ion Creangă, Princess Maria Anna of Anhalt-Dessau, George Dewey, Wilhelm Kühne, Kabayama Sukenori, and John Wesley Hyatt. Among people deceased in 1905, Franz Overbeck ranks 45Before him are Josip Belušić, José-Maria de Heredia, George Williams, Franz Reuleaux, Giovanni Battista Scalabrini, and Julius Oppert. After him are Amalie Skram, Mary Mapes Dodge, Jean-Jacques Henner, Máximo Gómez, Henry Irving, and Siegfried Bing.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Franz Overbeck ranks 936 out of 3,761Before him are Viktoria Brezhneva (1907), Alexander Shliapnikov (1885), Nikolai Vasilyeich Repnin (1734), Mikhail Yangel (1911), Konstantin Feoktistov (1926), and Walter Krupinski (1920). After him are Yuri Temirkanov (1938), Emil Wiechert (1861), Andrey Myagkov (1938), Vadim Bakatin (1937), Vasily Lanovoy (1934), and Eudoxia Streshneva (1608).

Among WRITERS In Russia

Among writers born in Russia, Franz Overbeck ranks 110Before him are Gennadiy Aygi (1934), Nikolay Kostomarov (1817), Modest Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1850), Fyodor Sologub (1863), Vladimir Stasov (1824), and Noor Inayat Khan (1914). After him are Countess of Ségur (1799), Yury Yakovlev (1928), Vladimir Sorokin (1955), Yevgeny Baratynsky (1800), Andrei Sinyavsky (1925), and Vyacheslav Ivanov (1866).