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Johann Heinrich Voss

1751 - 1826

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Johann Heinrich Voss (German: Voß, pronounced [fɔs]; 20 February 1751 – 29 March 1826) was a German classicist and poet, known mostly for his translation of Homer's Odyssey (1781) and Iliad (1793) into German. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Johann Heinrich Voss is the 3,096th most popular writer (up from 3,636th in 2019), the 3,266th most popular biography from Germany (up from 3,696th in 2019) and the 200th most popular German Writer.

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Among writers, Johann Heinrich Voss ranks 3,096 out of 7,302. Before him are Can Xue, Breyten Breytenbach, Howard Fast, Alexey Troitsky, John Edward Williams, and Laza Kostić. After him are Mukaghali Makatayev, Fumiko Enchi, Francis Ponge, Alois Musil, Johan Bojer, and Zivia Lubetkin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1751, Johann Heinrich Voss ranks 23. Before him are Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz, Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 1st Earl of Minto, Princess Charlotte of Saxe-Meiningen, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Julie Billiart, and François Joseph Westermann. After him are Uesugi Harunori, Anders Dahl, William Roxburgh, Johan Henric Kellgren, Corona Schröter, and John Abbot. Among people deceased in 1826, Johann Heinrich Voss ranks 40. Before him are Jean Lafitte, Kondraty Ryleyev, Georg Franz Hoffmann, Pavel Pestel, Jacob Hübner, and Nikolay Rumyantsev. After him are J. F. Oberlin, Jens Baggesen, Fyodor Rostopchin, Stanisław Staszic, Alexander Gordon Laing, and Friedrich August Marschall von Bieberstein.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Johann Heinrich Voss ranks 3,268 out of 7,253. Before him are Hans-Jochen Vogel (1926), Louis II, Landgrave of Thuringia (1128), Alfred Schwarzmann (1912), Ernst Wilhelm von Brücke (1819), Prince Alfons of Bavaria (1862), and Gottlob Ernst Schulze (1761). After him are Ambrosius Holbein (1494), Princess Anna of Hesse and by Rhine (1843), Constantin von Alvensleben (1809), Friedrich Franz, Hereditary Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1910), Renate Müller (1906), and Robert Blum (1807).

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Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Johann Heinrich Voss ranks 200. Before him are Georg Herwegh (1817), Johann Christoph Friedrich GutsMuths (1759), Christian Dietrich Grabbe (1801), Christoph Friedrich Nicolai (1733), Friedrich Wolf (1888), and Edgar Hilsenrath (1926). After him are Günter Wallraff (1942), Lily Braun (1865), Princess Alexandra of Bavaria (1826), Ursula Kuczynski (1907), Walter Hasenclever (1890), and Curt von Bardeleben (1861).

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