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Friedrich Theodor Vischer

1807 - 1887

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Friedrich Theodor Vischer (German: [ˈfɪʃɐ]; 30 June 1807 – 14 September 1887) was a German novelist, poet, playwright, and writer on the philosophy of art. Today, he is mainly remembered as the author of the novel Auch Einer, in which he developed the concept of Die Tücke des Objekts (the spite of objects), a comic theory that inanimate objects conspire against humans. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Friedrich Theodor Vischer is the 3,996th most popular writer (down from 3,763rd in 2019), the 4,022nd most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,791st in 2019) and the 245th most popular German Writer.

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Among writers, Friedrich Theodor Vischer ranks 3,996 out of 7,302. Before him are Matilde Serao, Luciano De Crescenzo, Nick Hornby, Ferenc Fejtő, Moa Martinson, and Johannes Jørgensen. After him are Anar Rzayev, Syd Field, Yu Dafu, Bharatendu Harishchandra, Simin Behbahani, and Alykul Osmonov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1807, Friedrich Theodor Vischer ranks 37. Before him are Joseph Decaisne, Jane Digby, Pieter Willem Korthals, Auguste Laurent, Théophile Thoré-Bürger, and Emily Donelson. After him are Barbu Catargiu, Franz Xaver Fieber, Ignacy Feliks Dobrzyński, Ye Mingchen, Johan Sebastian Welhaven, and Luigi Palmieri. Among people deceased in 1887, Friedrich Theodor Vischer ranks 41. Before him are Joachim IV of Constantinople, Lysander Spooner, Joseph Whitworth, Lorenzo Batlle y Grau, August Friedrich Pott, and Ferdinand Johann Wiedemann. After him are Mikhail Katkov, Emma Lazarus, Mohamed Sherif Pasha, Spencer Fullerton Baird, Sarah Yorke Jackson, and John Taylor.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Friedrich Theodor Vischer ranks 4,024 out of 7,253. Before him are Brigitte Mohnhaupt (1949), Rupert, Count Palatine of Veldenz (1506), Jutta Kleinschmidt (1962), Elisabeth Dorothea of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg (1640), Johann Heinrich Blasius (1809), and Gisela Birkemeyer (1931). After him are Ernst Baier (1905), Joseph Gottlieb Kölreuter (1733), Nelson Piquet Jr. (1985), Franz Ehrle (1845), Herbert Achternbusch (1938), and Bodo Ramelow (1956).

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Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Friedrich Theodor Vischer ranks 245. Before him are Karoline von Günderrode (1780), Johann Beckmann (1739), Wilferd Madelung (1930), Leopold Andrian (1875), Otto Ludwig (1813), and Hans Carossa (1878). After him are Herbert Achternbusch (1938), Emmy Hennings (1885), Carl Sternheim (1878), Maximilian Harden (1861), Murad Wilfried Hofmann (1931), and Ken Adam (1921).

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