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Gottfried Keller

1819 - 1890

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Gottfried Keller (19 July 1819 – 15 July 1890) was a Swiss poet and writer of German literature. Best known for his novel Green Henry (German: Der grüne Heinrich) and his cycle of novellas called Seldwyla Folks (Die Leute von Seldwyla), he became one of the most popular narrators of literary realism in the late 19th century. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Gottfried Keller is the 1,157th most popular writer (down from 1,145th in 2019), the 122nd most popular biography from Switzerland (down from 117th in 2019) and the 11th most popular Swiss Writer.

Gottfried Keller is most famous for his novel Der grüne Heinrich, which is about a man who is in love with a woman who is married to another man.

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Among writers, Gottfried Keller ranks 1,157 out of 7,302. Before him are Frans Sammut, Jean-François Marmontel, Jean Webster, Charles Simic, Antarah ibn Shaddad, and Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué. After him are P. G. Wodehouse, Vladimir Bartol, Irving Stone, Marcel Pagnol, Marcus Minucius Felix, and Tadeusz Mazowiecki.

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Among people born in 1819, Gottfried Keller ranks 23. Before him are Chlodwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst, Annibale de Gasparis, Stanisław Moniuszko, George V of Hanover, William T. G. Morton, and Theodor Fontane. After him are Cyrus West Field, Théodore Chassériau, Francis V, Duke of Modena, Johan Jongkind, Allan Pinkerton, and Louise Marie Thérèse of Artois. Among people deceased in 1890, Gottfried Keller ranks 21. Before him are William Kemmler, Christian Heinrich Friedrich Peters, John Henry Newman, Niels Gade, Princess Zorka of Montenegro, and Jyotirao Phule. After him are Alexander Georg von Bunge, Lorenz von Stein, Antoine, Duke of Montpensier, Spotted Elk, Louis Le Prince, and Christopher Latham Sholes.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Gottfried Keller ranks 122 out of 1,015. Before him are Abraham-Louis Breguet (1747), Charles Bonnet (1720), Jean Charles Léonard de Sismondi (1773), Friedrich Miescher (1844), Albert Anker (1831), and Sophie Taeuber-Arp (1889). After him are Paul Guldin (1577), Didier Queloz (1966), Annemarie Schwarzenbach (1908), Sigismond Thalberg (1812), Marthe Keller (1945), and Micheline Calmy-Rey (1945).

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Among WRITERS In Switzerland

Among writers born in Switzerland, Gottfried Keller ranks 11. Before him are Karl Barth (1886), Robert Walser (1878), Max Frisch (1911), Alejo Carpentier (1904), Johann Ludwig Burckhardt (1784), and Johann Kaspar Lavater (1741). After him are Annemarie Schwarzenbach (1908), Blaise Cendrars (1887), Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz (1878), Rodolphe Töpffer (1799), Hans Urs von Balthasar (1905), and Alfonsina Storni (1892).

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