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Karl Philipp Moritz

1756 - 1793

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Karl Philipp Moritz (Hameln, 15 September 1756 – Berlin, 26 June 1793) was a German author, editor and essayist of the Sturm und Drang, late Enlightenment, and classicist periods, influencing early German Romanticism as well. He led a life as a hatter's apprentice, teacher, journalist, literary critic, professor of art and linguistics, and member of both of Berlin's academies. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Karl Philipp Moritz is the 2,868th most popular writer (up from 3,241st in 2019), the 3,040th most popular biography from Germany (up from 3,386th in 2019) and the 182nd most popular German Writer.

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Among writers, Karl Philipp Moritz ranks 2,868 out of 7,302. Before him are Aleksandër Stavre Drenova, Ibn 'Abd al-Barr, Apostolo Zeno, Nguyễn Du, Takiji Kobayashi, and Judith Miller. After him are Eric Roth, Balthasar Russow, Mihailo Lalić, Hilaire Belloc, Wolfgang Iser, and John Ashbery.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1756, Karl Philipp Moritz ranks 28. Before him are Federico Gravina, James Gillray, Abbé Faria, John Loudon McAdam, Paul Wranitzky, Christian Frederik Hansen, Heinrich von Bellegarde, Jean-Antoine Chaptal, and Vincent-Marie Viénot, Count of Vaublanc. After him are Princess Louise of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg, John Trumbull, and François Chabot. Among people deceased in 1793, Karl Philipp Moritz ranks 38. Before him are Nicolaas Laurens Burman, Jean Baptiste François Pierre Bulliard, Adam Philippe, Comte de Custine, Jean Joseph Marie Amiot, Armand Louis de Gontaut, and Louis-Michel le Peletier, marquis de Saint-Fargeau. After him are William Hudson, Leopold Hofmann, Charles de Bonchamps, Anton Friedrich Büsching, Carl Gustaf Pilo, and Roger Sherman.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Karl Philipp Moritz ranks 3,042 out of 7,253. Before him are August Böckh (1785), Tilly Fleischer (1911), Princess Augusta of Cambridge (1822), Prince Maximilian of Wied-Neuwied (1782), Prince Friedrich of Saxe-Meiningen (1861), and Princess Marie-Auguste of Anhalt (1898). After him are Hugo Eckener (1868), Friedrich Bayer (1825), Wolfgang Iser (1926), Louis, Prince of Hesse and by Rhine (1908), Eberhard IV, Count of Württemberg (1388), and Charles I, Margrave of Baden-Baden (1425).

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Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Karl Philipp Moritz ranks 182. Before him are Arno Schmidt (1914), Heinrich Hoffmann (1809), Alice Schwarzer (1942), Ludwig Rellstab (1799), Ricarda Huch (1864), and Samson Raphael Hirsch (1808). After him are Wolfgang Iser (1926), Stefan Heym (1913), Solomon Perel (1925), Richard Dehmel (1863), Augustus, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg (1772), and George Mosse (1918).

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