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Gottfried August Bürger

1747 - 1794

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Gottfried August Bürger (31 December 1747 – 8 June 1794) was a German poet. His ballads were very popular in Germany. His most noted ballad, Lenore, found an audience beyond readers of the German language in an English and Russian adaptation and a French translation. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Gottfried August Bürger is the 1,567th most popular writer (down from 1,478th in 2019), the 1,692nd most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,563rd in 2019) and the 104th most popular German Writer.

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Among writers, Gottfried August Bürger ranks 1,567 out of 7,302. Before him are Joseph Karo, Forough Farrokhzad, Lina Heydrich, Al-Khansa, Ödön von Horváth, and Jean de Meun. After him are Hermann Bahr, Lord Alfred Douglas, Namdev, Solomon Northup, Usama ibn Munqidh, and Martin Opitz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1747, Gottfried August Bürger ranks 8. Before him are Louis Philippe II, Duke of Orléans, Johann Elert Bode, Prince Frederick of Hesse-Kassel, Abraham-Louis Breguet, Vivant Denon, and Roger Ducos. After him are Leopold Koželuch, Rose Bertin, Princess Wilhelmina Caroline of Denmark, Infante Philip, Duke of Calabria, Gunning Bedford Jr., and Louis Alexandre, Prince of Lamballe. Among people deceased in 1794, Gottfried August Bürger ranks 25. Before him are Augustin Robespierre, Countess Palatine Maria Franziska of Sulzbach, Rudolf Erich Raspe, Sheikh Mansur, Duchess Sophia Frederica of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, and Adolphus Frederick IV, Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. After him are James Lind, Henri de la Rochejaquelein, Jean-Baptiste Carrier, Caspar Friedrich Wolff, Jacques Roux, and Guillaume-Chrétien de Lamoignon de Malesherbes.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Gottfried August Bürger ranks 1,692 out of 7,253. Before him are Christian Schmidt (1957), Ferdinand Hiller (1811), Charles Frederick, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1783), Robert Prosinečki (1969), Prince Charles of Prussia (1801), and Günther Quandt (1881). After him are Wolfgang Wagner (1919), Hermann Abendroth (1883), Georg Gänswein (1956), Prince Augustus Ferdinand of Prussia (1730), Karl Christian Friedrich Krause (1781), and Louis III, Grand Duke of Hesse (1806).

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Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Gottfried August Bürger ranks 104. Before him are Gustav Landauer (1870), August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben (1798), Siegfried Lenz (1926), Marianne Weber (1870), Heiner Müller (1929), and Lina Heydrich (1911). After him are Elisabeth of Schönau (1129), Christian Morgenstern (1871), Augustus the Younger, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1579), Christian Friedrich Hebbel (1813), Ludwig Börne (1786), and Friedrich Rückert (1788).

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