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Johann Jakob Bodmer

1698 - 1783

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Johann Jakob Bodmer (19 July 1698 – 2 January 1783) was a Swiss author, academic, critic and poet. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Johann Jakob Bodmer is the 1,609th most popular writer (up from 2,395th in 2019), the 165th most popular biography from Switzerland (up from 245th in 2019) and the 19th most popular Swiss Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Johann Jakob Bodmer ranks 1,609 out of 7,302. Before him are John Mandeville, Christian Morgenstern, Eliza Orzeszkowa, Charles Paul de Kock, Sheridan Le Fanu, and Catherine of Bologna. After him are Vladimir Korolenko, Augustus the Younger, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, Ubertino of Casale, Ken Wilber, and Constance Lloyd.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1698, Johann Jakob Bodmer ranks 11. Before him are Ange-Jacques Gabriel, Pierre Bouguer, Joseph Süß Oppenheimer, Francesco III d'Este, Duke of Modena, Riccardo Broschi, and Charles François de Cisternay du Fay. After him are Erik Pontoppidan, Jean Calas, Louise Adélaïde d'Orléans, George Browne, François Francoeur, and Giacomo Ceruti. Among people deceased in 1783, Johann Jakob Bodmer ranks 13. Before him are Antonio Soler, Carl Linnaeus the Younger, Princess Caroline Louise of Hesse-Darmstadt, Grigory Orlov, Johann Kirnberger, and Franz Xaver Messerschmidt. After him are Benedict Joseph Labre, Christian Mayer, Gerhard Friedrich Müller, Nikita Ivanovich Panin, William Hunter, and Ignaz Holzbauer.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Johann Jakob Bodmer ranks 165 out of 1,015. Before him are Jean-André Deluc (1727), Marcel Bezençon (1907), Théophile Steinlen (1859), Albert von Kölliker (1817), Ulrich of Augsburg (890), and Viola Amherd (1962). After him are Karin Keller-Sutter (1963), Pascal Couchepin (1942), Jaime, Duke of Madrid (1870), Emer de Vattel (1714), Peter Sauber (1943), and Archduke Rudolf of Austria (1919).

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Among WRITERS In Switzerland

Among writers born in Switzerland, Johann Jakob Bodmer ranks 19. Before him are Blaise Cendrars (1887), Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz (1878), Rodolphe Töpffer (1799), Hans Urs von Balthasar (1905), Alfonsina Storni (1892), and Antoine-Henri Jomini (1779). After him are Notker the Stammerer (840), Conrad Ferdinand Meyer (1825), Jean Starobinski (1920), Jeremias Gotthelf (1797), Emma Jung (1882), and Johann Peter Hebel (1760).

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