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Friedrich Melchior, Baron von Grimm

1723 - 1807

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Friedrich Melchior, Baron von Grimm (26 September 1723 – 19 December 1807) was a German-born French-language journalist, art critic, diplomat and contributor to the Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers. In 1765 Grimm wrote Poème lyrique, an influential article for the Encyclopédie on lyric and opera librettos. Like Christoph Willibald Gluck and Ranieri de' Calzabigi, Grimm became interested in opera reform. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Friedrich Melchior, Baron von Grimm is the 2,025th most popular writer (down from 1,761st in 2019), the 2,207th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,862nd in 2019) and the 130th most popular German Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Friedrich Melchior, Baron von Grimm ranks 2,025 out of 7,302. Before him are Katia Mann, Abu Hamid al-Gharnati, Marko Vovchok, Jeremias Gotthelf, Philip Sidney, and Pavel Bermondt-Avalov. After him are Otto IV, Margrave of Brandenburg-Stendal, Yehuda Amichai, Elvira Madigan, Ion of Chios, Kateb Yacine, and Antun Vrančić.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1723, Friedrich Melchior, Baron von Grimm ranks 16. Before him are Adam Ferguson, Prithvi Narayan Shah, Anna Amalia, Abbess of Quedlinburg, Nicole-Reine Lepaute, Tobias Mayer, and Johann Bernhard Basedow. After him are Marcus Elieser Bloch, Princess Mary of Great Britain, Pehr Osbeck, Mir Taqi Mir, William Blackstone, and Philip II, Count of Schaumburg-Lippe. Among people deceased in 1807, Friedrich Melchior, Baron von Grimm ranks 12. Before him are Henry Benedict Stuart, George Atwood, Osman Pazvantoğlu, Duchess Anna Amalia of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Maria, Duchess of Gloucester and Edinburgh, and John Newton. After him are Nikolai Rezanov, Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau, Jacob Philipp Hackert, Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Herbst, Johannes Nikolaus Tetens, and Jeremias Benjamin Richter.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Friedrich Melchior, Baron von Grimm ranks 2,208 out of 7,253. Before him are Karl Vogt (1817), Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle (1809), Johann Gottlieb Naumann (1741), Heinz-Wolfgang Schnaufer (1922), Heinz Brandt (1907), and Louis IV, Elector Palatine (1424). After him are Ernest II, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg (1745), Louis VIII, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt (1691), William V, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel (1602), Ulrich Mühe (1953), Julius Jacob von Haynau (1786), and Yehuda Amichai (1924).

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Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Friedrich Melchior, Baron von Grimm ranks 130. Before him are Ludwig Uhland (1787), Basil Valentine (1394), Anthony Ulrich, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1633), Mina Witkojc (1893), Joachim Neander (1650), and Katia Mann (1883). After him are Yehuda Amichai (1924), Elvira Madigan (1867), Johann Karl August Musäus (1735), Gustav Schwab (1792), Wolfgang Borchert (1921), and Waldemar Bonsels (1880).

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