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Glückel of Hameln

1646 - 1724

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Glückel of Hameln (Yiddish: גליקל בת ר' יהודה לייב האַמיל; also spelled Glückel, Glüeckel, Gllckl Hamel or Glikl of Hamelin; also known as Glikl bas Judah Leib) (c. 1646 – September 19, 1724) was a German Jewish businesswoman and diarist. Written in her native tongue of Western Yiddish over the course of thirty years, her memoirs were originally intended to be an ethical will for her children and future descendants. Glückel's diaries are the only known pre-modern Yiddish memoirs written by a woman. The Memoirs of Glückel of Hameln provide an intimate portrait of German-Jewish life between the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries and have become an important source for historians, philologists, sociologists, literary critics, and linguists. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Glückel of Hameln is the 3,536th most popular writer (up from 3,724th in 2019), the 3,658th most popular biography from Germany (up from 3,768th in 2019) and the 216th most popular German Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Glückel of Hameln ranks 3,536 out of 7,302Before her are Carlo Rosselli, Robert Holdstock, Antero de Quental, William Ernest Henley, Glen Cook, and Song Yu. After her are John Osborne, Simonas Daukantas, Fernando del Paso, Torben Ulrich, Pietro Carrera, and Oskar Maria Graf.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1646, Glückel of Hameln ranks 17Before her are Hortense Mancini, Charles Plumier, Alexandre Exquemelin, Paul Hermann, Frederick I, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg, and Élisabeth Marguerite d'Orléans. After her are Pierre Le Pesant, sieur de Boisguilbert, Johann Theile, Nicolas de Fer, and Jean Hardouin. Among people deceased in 1724, Glückel of Hameln ranks 12Before her are Princess Eleonore Juliane of Brandenburg-Ansbach, Ernst Ludwig I, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen, Bartolomeu de Gusmão, Marie of Lorraine, Edward Low, and Benedetto Luti. After her are Ernest Frederick I, Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen, Johann Theile, and Jack Sheppard.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Glückel of Hameln ranks 3,660 out of 7,253Before her are Diana Damrau (1971), Oscar Goßler (1875), Erich Salomon (1886), Princess Elisabeth of Saxe-Altenburg (1826), Karl Josef Becker (1928), and Otto Gessler (1875). After her are Christian Oliver (1972), Friedrich von Ingenohl (1857), Sybille Schmitz (1909), Adolf II, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe (1883), Conrad of Wittelsbach (1125), and Petra Schürmann (1933).

Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Glückel of Hameln ranks 216Before her are Sophie von La Roche (1730), Justus Jonas (1493), Johann Ernst Glück (1652), Johann Most (1846), Paul Fleming (1609), and Sylvia Nasar (1947). After her are Oskar Maria Graf (1894), Herman Grimm (1828), Barthold Heinrich Brockes (1680), Elia Levita (1469), Brigitte Hamann (1940), and Erich Weinert (1890).