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Rodolphe Töpffer

1799 - 1846

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Rodolphe Töpffer ( TOP-fər; French: [ʁɔdɔlf tœpfɛʁ]; 31 January 1799 – 8 June 1846) was a Swiss teacher, author, painter, cartoonist, and caricaturist. He is best known for his illustrated books (littérature en estampes, "graphic literature"), which are possibly the earliest European comics. He is known as the father of comic strips and has been credited as the "first comics artist in history." Paris-educated, Töpffer worked as a schoolteacher at a boarding school, where he entertained students with his caricatures. In 1837, he published Histoire de Mr. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Rodolphe Töpffer is the 1,263rd most popular writer (up from 1,387th in 2019), the 135th most popular biography from Switzerland (up from 138th in 2019) and the 15th most popular Swiss Writer.

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Among writers, Rodolphe Töpffer ranks 1,263 out of 7,302. Before him are Ivan Kotliarevsky, Émile Gaboriau, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, Siegfried Kracauer, John Tzetzes, and Pierre Drieu La Rochelle. After him are Madame d'Aulnoy, Vittorio Alfieri, Jan Kochanowski, Agrippa d'Aubigné, Eiji Yoshikawa, and Vinicius de Moraes.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1799, Rodolphe Töpffer ranks 14. Before him are Friedrich Wilhelm Argelander, Fromental Halévy, Charles II, Duke of Parma, Princess Maria Anna of Saxony, Karl Bryullov, and Anna Atkins. After him are Christian Friedrich Schönbein, Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby, John Lindley, Karl Adolph von Basedow, Ferenc Gyulay, and George Arnott Walker-Arnott. Among people deceased in 1846, Rodolphe Töpffer ranks 8. Before him are Louis Bonaparte, Friedrich Bessel, Emperor Ninkō, Friedrich List, Francis IV, Duke of Modena, and Andrew Kim Taegon. After him are Otto von Kotzebue, Adam Johann von Krusenstern, Princess Maria Anna of Hesse-Homburg, Jean-Gaspard Deburau, Esaias Tegnér, and Domenico Dragonetti.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Rodolphe Töpffer ranks 135 out of 1,015. Before him are Jean-Étienne Liotard (1702), Ludwig Binswanger (1881), Blaise Cendrars (1887), Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz (1878), Princess Maria Teresa of Bourbon-Two Sicilies (1867), and Jakob Friedrich Ehrhart (1742). After him are Mario Adorf (1930), Hannes Meyer (1889), Matthäus Merian (1593), Auguste Forel (1848), Rudolf II, Count of Habsburg (1168), and Hans Urs von Balthasar (1905).

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Among WRITERS In Switzerland

Among writers born in Switzerland, Rodolphe Töpffer ranks 15. Before him are Johann Ludwig Burckhardt (1784), Johann Kaspar Lavater (1741), Gottfried Keller (1819), Annemarie Schwarzenbach (1908), Blaise Cendrars (1887), and Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz (1878). After him are Hans Urs von Balthasar (1905), Alfonsina Storni (1892), Antoine-Henri Jomini (1779), Johann Jakob Bodmer (1698), Notker the Stammerer (840), and Conrad Ferdinand Meyer (1825).

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