WRITER

Karl Gutzkow

1811 - 1878

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Karl Ferdinand Gutzkow ((1811-03-17)17 March 1811 in Berlin – (1878-12-16)16 December 1878 in Sachsenhausen) was a German writer and dramatist who promoted political and social reformism. He studied philosophy and theology with Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and Friedrich Schleiermacher, and his early works, like the novel Maha-Guru, Geschichte eines Gottes (1833), were satirical. His 1835 novel Wally, die Zweiflerin led to his imprisonment and suppression, marking the start of the Young Germany movement. His plays, especially Uriel Acosta (1847, based on Uriel da Costa), influenced German and Yiddish theater. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2024). Karl Gutzkow is the 2,409th most popular writer (up from 2,586th in 2024), the 2,585th most popular biography from Germany (up from 2,737th in 2019) and the 156th most popular German Writer.

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Among writers, Karl Gutzkow ranks 2,409 out of 7,302. Before him are Pascal Bruckner, Zeki Müren, Noël Coward, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Valery Larbaud, and Ferdynand Antoni Ossendowski. After him are Gu Yanwu, Abdulah Sidran, Gabriel Matzneff, Kakinomoto no Hitomaro, Al-Sharif al-Radi, and Alexander Fadeyev.

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Among people born in 1811, Karl Gutzkow ranks 32. Before him are Friedrich Anton Wilhelm Miquel, Zeng Guofan, Kurmanjan Datka, Otto Hesse, Édouard René de Laboulaye, and Sengge Rinchen. After him are Joseph Cafasso, Infante Sebastian of Portugal and Spain, Edward Dickinson Baker, Raden Saleh, Carlo Matteucci, and Karel Jaromír Erben. Among people deceased in 1878, Karl Gutzkow ranks 33. Before him are Carlo Blasis, Robert Stirling, Barthélemy Charles Joseph Dumortier, Mindon Min, Mohammed bin Thani, and Charles Cousin-Montauban, Comte de Palikao. After him are Đura Jakšić, Maurice Joly, Josip Runjanin, Anna Sewell, Philipp Johann Ferdinand Schur, and August Heinrich Petermann.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Karl Gutzkow ranks 2,586 out of 7,253. Before him are Georg, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe (1846), John II, Count Palatine of Simmern (1492), Karl Ernst (1904), Bernhard Förster (1843), Prince Max, Duke in Bavaria (1937), and Georg Eberhard Rumphius (1627). After him are Johann Friedrich Agricola (1720), William Louis, Duke of Württemberg (1647), Princess Maria Ludwiga Theresia of Bavaria (1872), Karl Koch (1809), Louis of Nassau (1538), and Lujo Brentano (1844).

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Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Karl Gutzkow ranks 156. Before him are Sebastian Haffner (1907), Jurij Brězan (1916), Berthold Auerbach (1812), Christian Fürchtegott Gellert (1715), Wieland Wagner (1917), and Gertrud von Le Fort (1876). After him are August von Platen-Hallermünde (1796), Wilhelm Worringer (1881), Caesarius of Heisterbach (1180), Rolf Hochhuth (1931), C. W. Ceram (1915), and Ernst von Salomon (1902).

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