WRITER

Ludwig Bechstein

1801 - 1860

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Ludwig Bechstein (24 November 1801 – 14 May 1860) was a German writer and collector of folk fairy tales. He was born in Weimar, the illegitimate child of Johanna Carolina Dorothea Bechstein and Hubert Dupontreau, a French emigrant who disappeared before the birth of the child; Ludwig thus grew up very poor in his first nine years. His situation improved only when his uncle Johann Matthäus Bechstein, a renowned naturalist and forester living in Meiningen in the country of Duchy of Saxe-Meiningen, adopted him in 1810. He was sent to school in Meiningen, and in 1818, started an apprenticeship as a pharmacist. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ludwig Bechstein is the 4,481st most popular writer (up from 4,631st in 2019), the 4,412th most popular biography from Germany (up from 4,430th in 2019) and the 268th most popular German Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Ludwig Bechstein ranks 4,481 out of 7,302. Before him are Ahmet Altan, Kikkuli, John Stott, Zainab Biisheva, Tracy Chevalier, and C. J. Cherryh. After him are Ngaio Marsh, Andrée Chedid, Zaharia Stancu, Norman Manea, David Mamet, and Tullio Pinelli.

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Among people born in 1801, Ludwig Bechstein ranks 74. Before him are Friedrich Frey-Herosé, František Škroup, Carlo Cattaneo, Christian Erich Hermann von Meyer, Édouard Spach, and Carl August von Steinheil. After him are Albert Auguste Perdonnet, Jules Pierre Rambur, William Hallowes Miller, Robert J. Walker, Athanasios Vouros, and Charles Combes. Among people deceased in 1860, Ludwig Bechstein ranks 52. Before him are Friedrich Silcher, Johann Georg Christian Lehmann, Johan Ludvig Heiberg, Nicolaas Pieneman, Andreas Metaxas, and Konstantin Aksakov. After him are Honoré Charles Reille, Christian Ferdinand Friedrich Hochstetter, John Neumann, Sergei Petrovich Trubetskoy, Juan Rafael Mora Porras, and Carl Edvard Rotwitt.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Ludwig Bechstein ranks 4,414 out of 7,253. Before him are Camilla Horn (1903), Ernst Hartwig (1851), Theo Lingen (1903), Lian Ross (1962), Arthur Jonath (1909), and Adolf Urban (1914). After him are Princess Ida of Waldeck and Pyrmont (1796), Karl Julius Perleb (1794), Hans Gerhard Creutzfeldt (1885), Julius von Haast (1822), Heinrich von Gagern (1799), and Rüdiger Abramczik (1956).

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Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Ludwig Bechstein ranks 268. Before him are Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (1927), Wolfgang Hildesheimer (1916), Bel Kaufman (1911), Konrad von Würzburg (1225), Kito Lorenc (1938), and Christian Gotthilf Salzmann (1744). After him are Uwe Timm (1940), Friedrich Leopold zu Stolberg-Stolberg (1750), Paul Bekker (1882), Klaus Groth (1819), Tankred Dorst (1925), and Louise Otto-Peters (1819).

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