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Lou Andreas-Salomé

1861 - 1937

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Lou Andreas-Salomé (born either Louise von Salomé or Luíza Gustavovna Salomé or Lioulia von Salomé, Russian: Луиза Густавовна Саломе; 12 February 1861 – 5 February 1937) was a Russian-born psychoanalyst and a well-traveled author, narrator, and essayist from a French Huguenot-German family. Her diverse intellectual interests led to friendships with a broad array of distinguished thinkers, including Friedrich Nietzsche, Sigmund Freud, Paul Rée, and Rainer Maria Rilke. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Lou Andreas-Salomé is the 244th most popular writer (down from 201st in 2019), the 77th most popular biography from Russia (down from 70th in 2019) and the 13th most popular Russian Writer.

Lou andreas-salomé is most famous for her relationship with the philosopher Sigmund Freud.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Lou Andreas-Salomé ranks 244 out of 7,302Before her are Truman Capote, Lucian, Friedrich Schlegel, Juvenal, Ferdowsi, and Prosper Mérimée. After her are W. H. Auden, Gerhart Hauptmann, C. S. Lewis, Mansur Al-Hallaj, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, and Osamu Dazai.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1861, Lou Andreas-Salomé ranks 6Before her are Rabindranath Tagore, Mehmed VI, Fridtjof Nansen, Rudolf Steiner, and Charles Édouard Guillaume. After her are Georges Méliès, Edith Roosevelt, Ferdinand I of Bulgaria, Victor Horta, Georgy Lvov, and Erich von Falkenhayn. Among people deceased in 1937, Lou Andreas-Salomé ranks 12Before her are Alfred Adler, Antonio Gramsci, H. P. Lovecraft, Amelia Earhart, Erich Ludendorff, and Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk. After her are George Gershwin, Gustaf Dalén, Jagadish Chandra Bose, Mikhail Tukhachevsky, Yevgeny Zamyatin, and J. M. Barrie.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Lou Andreas-Salomé ranks 77 out of 3,761Before her are Mikhail Kutuzov (1745), Anna Pavlova (1881), Peter II of Russia (1715), Peter Carl Fabergé (1846), Anna of Russia (1693), and Alexander Borodin (1833). After her are Paul Karrer (1889), Alexander Scriabin (1871), Dmitry Medvedev (1965), Konstantin Stanislavski (1863), Stanislav Petrov (1939), and Boris Godunov (1552).

Among WRITERS In Russia

Among writers born in Russia, Lou Andreas-Salomé ranks 13Before her are Isaac Asimov (1920), Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918), Boris Pasternak (1890), E. T. A. Hoffmann (1776), Vladimir Nabokov (1899), and Ivan Turgenev (1818). After her are Svetlana Alliluyeva (1926), Mikhail Lermontov (1814), Mikhail Sholokhov (1905), Joseph Brodsky (1940), Sergei Yesenin (1895), and Vladimir Vysotsky (1938).