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Johann Gottfried Eichhorn

1752 - 1827

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Johann Gottfried Eichhorn (16 October 1752, in Dörrenzimmern – 27 June 1827, in Göttingen) was a German Protestant theologian of the Enlightenment and an early orientalist. He was a member of the Göttingen school of history. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Johann Gottfried Eichhorn is the 327th most popular historian (down from 321st in 2019), the 3,833rd most popular biography from Germany (up from 3,856th in 2019) and the 41st most popular German Historian.

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Johann Gottfried Eichhorn ranks 327 out of 561Before him are Ziya Bunyadov, Max Jakob Friedländer, Ibn 'Idhari, Georg Gottfried Gervinus, Edwin O. Reischauer, and Stepanos Asoghik. After him are Ghazar Parpetsi, Al-Nuwayri, Johannes Meursius, A. J. P. Taylor, Élisabeth Roudinesco, and Mikhail Pogodin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1752, Johann Gottfried Eichhorn ranks 31Before him are Andrey Razumovsky, François Isaac de Rivaz, Johann Friedrich Reichardt, Frances Burney, Maurice d'Elbée, and Antonio Scarpa. After him are Albrecht Thaer, Palisot de Beauvois, Barnaba Oriani, Gouverneur Morris, John Graves Simcoe, and George Rogers Clark. Among people deceased in 1827, Johann Gottfried Eichhorn ranks 28Before him are Thomas Rowlandson, Heinrich Boie, Princess Charlotte of Saxe-Meiningen, Charlotte von Stein, Countess Friederike von Schlieben, and Pōmare III. After him are Hugh Clapperton, János Bihari, François Fournier-Sarlovèze, Antoine Nicolas Duchesne, José Joaquín Fernández de Lizardi, and Henry Salt.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Johann Gottfried Eichhorn ranks 3,835 out of 7,253Before him are Günther Schwägermann (1915), Hans Hofmann (1880), Dorothea Köring (1880), Karl Groos (1861), Gunter d'Alquen (1910), and Jonas Kaufmann (1969). After him are Otto von Emmich (1848), Ulrik Frederik Gyldenløve (1638), Reinhard Libuda (1943), Frederick Schomberg, 1st Duke of Schomberg (1615), Hermann Usener (1834), and Margaret of Bavaria, Electress Palatine (1456).

Among HISTORIANS In Germany

Among historians born in Germany, Johann Gottfried Eichhorn ranks 41Before him are Wilhelm von Bode (1845), Ubbo Emmius (1547), Ludwig von Pastor (1854), Walter Burkert (1931), Max Jakob Friedländer (1867), and Georg Gottfried Gervinus (1805). After him are Arno Peters (1916), Kurt Aland (1915), Franz Babinger (1891), Heinrich Zimmer (1890), Gottfried Arnold (1665), and Heinrich von Sybel (1817).