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Jeremias Gotthelf

1797 - 1854

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Albert Bitzius (4 October 1797 – 22 October 1854) was a Swiss novelist, best known by his pen name of Jeremias Gotthelf. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jeremias Gotthelf is the 2,022nd most popular writer (up from 2,398th in 2019), the 215th most popular biography from Switzerland (up from 247th in 2019) and the 23rd most popular Swiss Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Jeremias Gotthelf ranks 2,022 out of 7,302Before him are Dora d'Istria, Audre Lorde, Johann Nestroy, Katia Mann, Abu Hamid al-Gharnati, and Marko Vovchok. After him are Philip Sidney, Pavel Bermondt-Avalov, Friedrich Melchior, Baron von Grimm, Otto IV, Margrave of Brandenburg-Stendal, Yehuda Amichai, and Elvira Madigan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1797, Jeremias Gotthelf ranks 43Before him are Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, Kamehameha II, Edward Turner Bennett, Jean Victoir Audouin, Princess Augusta of Hesse-Kassel, and Antonio Rosmini. After him are Prince Adolf zu Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen, George Tupou I, Pierre Leroux, January Suchodolski, Andrew Smith, and Adrien-Henri de Jussieu. Among people deceased in 1854, Jeremias Gotthelf ranks 17Before him are Karl Adolph von Basedow, Fructuoso Rivera, Nathaniel Wallich, Princess Louise Amelie of Baden, Almeida Garrett, and Marcellin Marbot. After him are John Martin, Kamehameha III, Caroline of Hesse-Homburg, Nicolás Bravo, Arthur Aikin, and Pierre Alphonse Laurent.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Jeremias Gotthelf ranks 215 out of 1,015Before him are Guy Parmelin (1959), DJ BoBo (1968), Margaret of Savoy, Duchess of Anjou (1420), Ivan Rakitić (1988), Bernard Tschumi (1944), and Giuseppe Motta (1871). After him are Jacob Sprenger (1435), Jost Amman (1539), Emma Jung (1882), Jean Ziegler (1934), Jean Charles Galissard de Marignac (1817), and André Abegglen (1909).

Among WRITERS In Switzerland

Among writers born in Switzerland, Jeremias Gotthelf ranks 23Before him are Alfonsina Storni (1892), Antoine-Henri Jomini (1779), Johann Jakob Bodmer (1698), Notker the Stammerer (840), Conrad Ferdinand Meyer (1825), and Jean Starobinski (1920). After him are Emma Jung (1882), Johann Peter Hebel (1760), Heinrich Glarean (1488), Isaac Casaubon (1559), Alphonse Matejka (1902), and Peter Bichsel (1935).