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Johann Nestroy

1801 - 1862

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Johann Nepomuk Eduard Ambrosius Nestroy (German: [ˈnɛstrɔɪ̯]; 7 December 1801 – 25 May 1862) was a singer, actor and playwright in the popular Austrian tradition of the Biedermeier period and its immediate aftermath. He participated in the 1848 revolutions and his work reflects the new liberal spirit then spreading throughout Europe. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Johann Nestroy is the 2,018th most popular writer (up from 2,255th in 2019), the 459th most popular biography from Austria (up from 495th in 2019) and the 33rd most popular Austrian Writer.

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Among writers, Johann Nestroy ranks 2,018 out of 7,302. Before him are Desanka Maksimović, Yuan Zhen, Vishnu Sharma, Robert de Boron, Dora d'Istria, and Audre Lorde. After him are Katia Mann, Abu Hamid al-Gharnati, Marko Vovchok, Jeremias Gotthelf, Philip Sidney, and Pavel Bermondt-Avalov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1801, Johann Nestroy ranks 35. Before him are Rifa'a al-Tahtawi, Julius Plücker, Jean-Baptiste Boussingault, Justo José de Urquiza, Fredrika Bremer, and Karl Baedeker. After him are Salvadore Cammarano, Adolphe-Théodore Brongniart, Richard Parkes Bonington, Carl Jakob Sundevall, Émile Littré, and Henri Labrouste. Among people deceased in 1862, Johann Nestroy ranks 22. Before him are Elizabeth Siddal, Carl Ludwig Blume, Karl Nesselrode, Henry Thomas Buckle, Ludwig Uhland, and Jeanne Duval. After him are Simon Fraser, Princess Mathilde Caroline of Bavaria, Hon'inbō Shūsaku, Peter Barlow, François Sudre, and Ignacio Zaragoza.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Johann Nestroy ranks 459 out of 1,424. Before him are Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky (1897), Johann Strauss III (1866), Annie Fischer (1914), Hans Gross (1847), Ivan Šubašić (1892), and Gaston Glock (1929). After him are Ernst Rüdiger von Starhemberg (1638), Shlomo Sand (1946), Oscar Homolka (1898), Agnes of Austria (1281), Karl Nehammer (1972), and Elisabeth von Gutmann (1875).

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Among WRITERS In Austria

Among writers born in Austria, Johann Nestroy ranks 33. Before him are Ida Laura Pfeiffer (1797), Hermann Bahr (1863), Vicki Baum (1888), Marlen Haushofer (1920), Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall (1774), and Gitta Sereny (1921). After him are Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić (1874), Eva Schloss (1929), Ilse Aichinger (1921), Alfréd Wetzler (1918), Heimito von Doderer (1896), and Ceija Stojka (1933).

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