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Gottfried Benn

1886 - 1956

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Gottfried Benn (2 May 1886 – 7 July 1956) was a German poet, essayist, and physician. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature five times. He was awarded the Georg Büchner Prize in 1951. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Gottfried Benn is the 1,271st most popular writer (down from 1,165th in 2019), the 1,315th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,166th in 2019) and the 79th most popular German Writer.

Gottfried Benn is most famous for his poetry and essays.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Gottfried Benn ranks 1,271 out of 7,302. Before him are Vittorio Alfieri, Jan Kochanowski, Agrippa d'Aubigné, Eiji Yoshikawa, Vinicius de Moraes, and Nikolaus Lenau. After him are Anton Praetorius, Saint Gall, Nathalie Sarraute, Bāṇabhaṭṭa, Ephraim Kishon, and Alfred Thayer Mahan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1886, Gottfried Benn ranks 53. Before him are Franz Rosenzweig, Garegin Nzhdeh, Frank Lloyd, Rex Stout, Duchess Cecilie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, and Edward C. Tolman. After him are Willem Drees, Erich Fellgiebel, Gyula Gömbös, Jisaburō Ozawa, Paul Lévy, and Hitoshi Imamura. Among people deceased in 1956, Gottfried Benn ranks 49. Before him are Lyonel Feininger, Juan Negrín, Marie Laurencin, Harold Bride, Mistinguett, and Alben W. Barkley. After him are Giovanni Papini, David Seymour, Chandrashekhar Agashe, Savielly Tartakower, Erich Kleiber, and Pío Baroja.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Gottfried Benn ranks 1,315 out of 7,253. Before him are Mesut Özil (1988), Prince Ferdinand of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1785), Thomas Müller (1989), George, Duke of Saxony (1471), Max Amann (1891), and Louis Rudolph, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1671). After him are Anton Praetorius (1560), Otto Kumm (1909), Heinrich Füger (1751), Joseph Süß Oppenheimer (1698), Sophia Eleonore of Saxony (1609), and Fidelis of Sigmaringen (1577).

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Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Gottfried Benn ranks 79. Before him are Johannes Valentinus Andreae (1586), Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse (1868), Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué (1777), Hans Magnus Enzensberger (1929), Rudolf von Sebottendorf (1875), and Siegfried Kracauer (1889). After him are Anton Praetorius (1560), Theodor Storm (1817), Kurt Tucholsky (1890), Rudolf Erich Raspe (1736), Wilhelm Müller (1794), and Widukind of Corvey (925).

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