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Nikolaus Lenau

1802 - 1850

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Nikolaus Lenau was the pen name of Nikolaus Franz Niembsch Edler von Strehlenau (13 August 1802 – 22 August 1850), a German-language Austrian poet. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Nikolaus Lenau is the 1,270th most popular writer (up from 1,351st in 2019), the 147th most popular biography from Hungary (up from 148th in 2019) and the 12th most popular Hungarian Writer.

Nikolaus Lenau is most famous for his poem, "Lenau's Evening Song."

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Among writers, Nikolaus Lenau ranks 1,270 out of 7,302. Before him are Madame d'Aulnoy, Vittorio Alfieri, Jan Kochanowski, Agrippa d'Aubigné, Eiji Yoshikawa, and Vinicius de Moraes. After him are Gottfried Benn, Anton Praetorius, Saint Gall, Nathalie Sarraute, Bāṇabhaṭṭa, and Ephraim Kishon.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1802, Nikolaus Lenau ranks 17. Before him are Wilhelm Hauff, Charles Wheatstone, Antoine Jérôme Balard, Alcide d'Orbigny, Pavel Nakhimov, and Hermann Goldschmidt. After him are Heinrich Gustav Magnus, Husein Gradaščević, Germain Henri Hess, Charlotte Bonaparte, Charles Auguste de Bériot, and Johann Friedrich von Brandt. Among people deceased in 1850, Nikolaus Lenau ranks 16. Before him are Louise of Orléans, Frédéric Bastiat, Lin Zexu, José Gervasio Artigas, Johann Heinrich von Thünen, and Robert Peel. After him are Adam Oehlenschläger, Wilhelm Beer, Józef Bem, Germain Henri Hess, Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge, and Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville.

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In Hungary

Among people born in Hungary, Nikolaus Lenau ranks 147 out of 1,077. Before him are John Corvinus (1473), Miklós Jancsó (1921), Leopold Auer (1845), Max Nordau (1849), András Schiff (1953), and Piali Pasha (1515). After him are Archduchess Elisabeth Franziska of Austria (1831), Brassaï (1899), Ephraim Kishon (1924), Marcel Grossmann (1878), Yolanda of Poland (1235), and György Sárosi (1912).

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Among WRITERS In Hungary

Among writers born in Hungary, Nikolaus Lenau ranks 12. Before him are Arthur Koestler (1905), Ferenc Molnár (1878), Felix Salten (1869), Ján Kollár (1793), Emma Orczy (1865), and Max Nordau (1849). After him are Ephraim Kishon (1924), Péter Nádas (1942), Béla Balázs (1884), Rosika Schwimmer (1877), Magda Szabó (1917), and Hannah Szenes (1921).

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