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Philipp Spitta

1841 - 1894

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Julius August Philipp Spitta (27 December 1841 – 13 April 1894) was a German music historian and musicologist best known for his 1873 biography of Johann Sebastian Bach. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Philipp Spitta is the 203rd most popular historian (up from 287th in 2019), the 2,737th most popular biography from Germany (up from 3,514th in 2019) and the 24th most popular German Historian.

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Philipp Spitta ranks 203 out of 561. Before him are Roger Chartier, Slobodan Jovanović, Christian Gottlob Heyne, H. A. R. Gibb, Howard Zinn, and William of Malmesbury. After him are Karl Krumbacher, Pei Songzhi, Egon Friedell, Peter Andreas Munch, Simon Dubnow, and Edgar Quinet.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1841, Philipp Spitta ranks 47. Before him are Felip Pedrell, Mykhailo Drahomanov, Józef Brandt, Oreste Baratieri, Luigi Luzzatti, and Elfrida Andrée. After him are Marie Alfred Cornu, Sam Loyd, Princess Maria Maximilianovna of Leuchtenberg, Wilfrid Laurier, James Gordon Bennett Jr., and Giovanni Sgambati. Among people deceased in 1894, Philipp Spitta ranks 36. Before him are Guillaume Lekeu, Christina Rossetti, Archduke Wilhelm Franz of Austria, Sante Geronimo Caserio, Grand Duchess Catherine Mikhailovna of Russia, and Amelia Bloomer. After him are Władysław Czartoryski, Heinrich Hoffmann, Theophan the Recluse, Charles Augustus, Hereditary Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Pavel Yablochkov, and Thomas Joannes Stieltjes.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Philipp Spitta ranks 2,738 out of 7,253. Before him are Siegfried von Feuchtwangen (1300), Johannes Werner (1468), Rudolf Peierls (1907), Adolf Hühnlein (1881), Joseph Gaertner (1732), and Paul de Lagarde (1827). After him are Adolf William, Duke of Saxe-Eisenach (1632), Karl Krumbacher (1856), Countess Palatine Maria Anna of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld (1753), Max Slevogt (1868), Erich Hückel (1896), and Doro (1964).

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Among HISTORIANS In Germany

Among historians born in Germany, Philipp Spitta ranks 24. Before him are Helmold (1120), Hermann Abert (1871), Jan Assmann (1938), Karl Lamprecht (1856), Friedrich Meinecke (1862), and Christian Gottlob Heyne (1729). After him are Karl Krumbacher (1856), Moritz Cantor (1829), Johannes Aventinus (1477), Gerardus Vossius (1577), Fritz Fischer (1908), and Johann Nikolaus von Hontheim (1701).

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