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Jean Paul

1763 - 1825

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Jean Paul (German: [ʒɑ̃ paʊl] ; born Johann Paul Friedrich Richter, 21 March 1763 – 14 November 1825) was a German Romantic writer, best known for his humorous novels and stories. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jean Paul is the 545th most popular writer (down from 525th in 2019), the 515th most popular biography from Germany (down from 492nd in 2019) and the 30th most popular German Writer.

Jean Paul is most famous for his novel "The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman" which was published in nine volumes from 1759 to 1767.

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Among writers, Jean Paul ranks 545 out of 7,302. Before him are Nâzım Hikmet, Osip Mandelstam, Seneca the Elder, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Camille Flammarion, and Augusta, Lady Gregory. After him are Enid Blyton, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Miguel Ángel Asturias, Rudaki, Madame de La Fayette, and Anaïs Nin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1763, Jean Paul ranks 4. Before him are Joséphine de Beauharnais, Charles XIV John of Sweden, and Józef Poniatowski. After him are Jacques Charles, Louis Nicolas Vauquelin, Jean Victor Marie Moreau, Claude Chappe, Kobayashi Issa, Pierre-Charles Villeneuve, Guillaume Brune, and Augustin Robespierre. Among people deceased in 1825, Jean Paul ranks 11. Before him are Henri de Saint-Simon, Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria, Eli Whitney, Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies, Pauline Bonaparte, and Henry Fuseli. After him are Dmitry Bortniansky, Laskarina Bouboulina, Bernard Germain de Lacépède, Vivant Denon, Franz-Joseph Müller von Reichenstein, and Mikhail Miloradovich.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Jean Paul ranks 515 out of 7,253. Before him are Adam Weishaupt (1748), Louise of Hesse-Kassel (1817), Wied, Prince of Albania (1876), Hans Luther (1879), Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi (1804), and Jost Gippert (1956). After him are Robert Ley (1890), Wilhelm Schickard (1592), Hans Geiger (1882), F. W. Murnau (1888), Maria Anna of Bavaria (1574), and Bernhard von Bülow (1849).

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Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Jean Paul ranks 30. Before him are Einhard (770), Traudl Junge (1920), Wolfram von Eschenbach (1170), Erich Kästner (1899), Heinrich Mann (1871), and August Wilhelm Schlegel (1767). After him are Ulrich von Hutten (1488), Patrick Süskind (1949), Lion Feuchtwanger (1884), Bert Hellinger (1925), Ludwig Tieck (1773), and Klaus Mann (1906).

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