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Nelly Sachs

1891 - 1970

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Her biography is available in 94 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 93 in 2024). Nelly Sachs is the 231st most popular writer (up from 253rd in 2024), the 185th most popular biography from Germany (up from 206th in 2019) and the 14th most popular German Writer.

Nelly Sachs was a German-Jewish poet who wrote in Swedish. She is most famous for her poem "Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen" (I have become lost to the world).

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Among Writers

Among writers, Nelly Sachs ranks 231 out of 7,302Before her are Annie Ernaux, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Tristan Tzara, Isaac Bashevis Singer, John the Evangelist, and Pliny the Younger. After her are Ray Bradbury, Pedro Calderón de la Barca, J. D. Salinger, Paul Heyse, Shota Rustaveli, and William Blake.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1891, Nelly Sachs ranks 8Before her are Erwin Rommel, Antonio Gramsci, Sergei Prokofiev, B. R. Ambedkar, Mikhail Bulgakov, and Max Ernst. After her are James Chadwick, Walter Model, Edith Stein, Pär Lagerkvist, John Howard Northrop, and Walther Bothe. Among people deceased in 1970, Nelly Sachs ranks 13Before her are Sukarno, Abraham Maslow, Yukio Mishima, Jimi Hendrix, Alexander Kerensky, and Max Born. After her are Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Édouard Daladier, Otto Heinrich Warburg, François Mauriac, Paul Celan, and Peter II of Yugoslavia.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Nelly Sachs ranks 185 out of NaNBefore her are Frederick William I of Prussia (1688), Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729), Charles the Fat (839), Otto IV, Holy Roman Emperor (1175), Baron Munchausen (1720), and Conrad III of Germany (1093). After her are Sophia of Prussia (1870), Richard Willstätter (1872), Georgius Agricola (1494), Hermann von Helmholtz (1821), Paul Heyse (1830), and Adolf Frederick, King of Sweden (1710).

Among Writers In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Nelly Sachs ranks 14Before her are Erich Maria Remarque (1898), Charles Bukowski (1920), Novalis (1772), Heinrich Böll (1917), Friedrich Hölderlin (1770), and Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729). After her are Paul Heyse (1830), Friedrich Schlegel (1772), Eckhart Tolle (1948), Jacob Grimm (1785), Ernst Jünger (1895), and Michael Ende (1929).

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