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Karl Heinrich Ulrichs

1825 - 1895

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Karl Heinrich Ulrichs (28 August 1825 – 14 July 1895) was a German lawyer, jurist, journalist, and writer. He is today regarded as a pioneer of sexology and the modern gay rights movement. Ulrichs has been described as the "first gay man in world history". Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Karl Heinrich Ulrichs is the 1,365th most popular writer (up from 1,382nd in 2019), the 1,449th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,440th in 2019) and the 90th most popular German Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Karl Heinrich Ulrichs ranks 1,365 out of 7,302. Before him are Cassius Longinus, Garcilaso de la Vega, Li Qingzhao, Vidyapati, Qiu Jin, and Alfonsina Storni. After him are Ba Jin, Peter Abrahams, Honoré d'Urfé, Alexander Radishchev, Boris Pahor, and Georg Kaiser.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1825, Karl Heinrich Ulrichs ranks 17. Before him are Paul Kruger, Henry Walter Bates, Eduard Hanslick, Archduchess Auguste Ferdinande of Austria, Emil Erlenmeyer, and Marie of Prussia. After him are Nubar Pasha, Sher Ali Khan, Henri Giffard, Dadabhai Naoroji, Grand Duchess Alexandra Nikolaevna of Russia, and George Phillips Bond. Among people deceased in 1895, Karl Heinrich Ulrichs ranks 24. Before him are Johann Josef Loschmidt, Nikolai Leskov, Friedrich Miescher, Arthur Cayley, Frederick Douglass, and James Dwight Dana. After him are Carl Ludwig, Lord Randolph Churchill, Francesco Filippini, Princess Marie Luise Charlotte of Hesse-Kassel, Franz Ernst Neumann, and Floriano Peixoto.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Karl Heinrich Ulrichs ranks 1,449 out of 7,253. Before him are Hermann Carl Vogel (1841), Princess Cecilie of Baden (1839), Louis I, Grand Duke of Hesse (1753), Joanna Sophia of Bavaria (1373), Princess Margaretha of Saxony (1840), and Ernst vom Rath (1909). After him are Adolphus Frederick V, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (1848), Henry of Latvia (1187), Anna Maria of the Palatinate (1561), Anna Amalia, Abbess of Quedlinburg (1723), Georg Kaiser (1878), and Countess Marie Larisch von Moennich (1858).

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Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Karl Heinrich Ulrichs ranks 90. Before him are Wilhelm Müller (1794), Widukind of Corvey (925), Friedrich Maximilian Klinger (1752), Else Lasker-Schüler (1869), Arnold van Gennep (1873), and Jakob Wassermann (1873). After him are Georg Kaiser (1878), Wilhelm Weitling (1808), Hartmann Schedel (1440), Joachim Fest (1926), Ernst Hanfstaengl (1887), and Albert of Aix (1060).

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