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Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff

1788 - 1857

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Joseph Karl Benedikt Freiherr von Eichendorff (German: [fɔn ˈaɪçn̩dɔʁf]; 10 March 1788 – 26 November 1857) was a German poet, novelist, playwright, literary critic, translator, and anthologist. Eichendorff was one of the major writers and critics of Romanticism. Ever since their publication and up to the present day, some of his works have been very popular in German-speaking Europe. Eichendorff first became famous for his 1826 novella Aus dem Leben eines Taugenichts (freely translated: Memoirs of a Good-for-Nothing) and his poems. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff is the 1,001st most popular writer (down from 944th in 2019), the 212th most popular biography from Poland (down from 199th in 2019) and the 17th most popular Polish Writer.

Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff is most famous for his Romantic poetry.

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Among writers, Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff ranks 1,001 out of 7,302. Before him are Branislav Nušić, Thomas Wolfe, Wilbur Smith, John Grisham, Joost van den Vondel, and Aziz Nesin. After him are Andrew of Crete, Agathon, Bettina von Arnim, Ouyang Xiu, E. M. Forster, and Henri Troyat.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1788, Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff ranks 14. Before him are Ranavalona I, Princess Augusta of Bavaria, Infante Carlos, Count of Molina, Étienne Cabet, Antoine César Becquerel, and Princess Wilhelmine of Baden. After him are Robert Peel, Catherine Pavlovna of Russia, Johan Christian Dahl, Leopold Gmelin, Mikhail Lazarev, and Rama III. Among people deceased in 1857, Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff ranks 16. Before him are Eugène Sue, Hinrich Lichtenstein, Louis-Eugène Cavaignac, Francis Beaufort, Pierre-Jean de Béranger, and Louis Jacques Thénard. After him are Alcide d'Orbigny, Gulab Singh, Johan Christian Dahl, Josef Ressel, Mangal Pandey, and Marquis de Custine.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff ranks 212 out of 1,694. Before him are Hermann Balck (1893), Felix Hausdorff (1868), Abraham Gottlob Werner (1749), Aleksandra Ekster (1882), Hans Lammers (1879), and Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus (1651). After him are Magnus Hirschfeld (1868), Stefan Wyszyński (1901), Stanislaus Kostka (1550), Otto Kretschmer (1912), Karl Denke (1860), and Paul Tillich (1886).

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Among WRITERS In Poland

Among writers born in Poland, Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff ranks 17. Before him are Osip Mandelstam (1891), Olga Tokarczuk (1962), Witold Gombrowicz (1904), Christa Wolf (1929), Jan Potocki (1761), and Jerzy Kosiński (1933). After him are Ernst Toller (1893), Bolesław Prus (1847), Emil Ludwig (1881), B. Traven (1882), Arnold Zweig (1887), and Johanna Schopenhauer (1766).

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