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Salomon Gessner

1730 - 1788

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Salomon Gessner (1 April 1730 – 2 March 1788) was a Swiss painter, graphic artist, government official, newspaper publisher, and poet, best known in the latter instance for his Idylls. He was a co-founder of the Helvetic Society and the first publisher and editor of the Neue Zürcher Zeitung. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Salomon Gessner is the 1,293rd most popular painter (down from 1,216th in 2019), the 352nd most popular biography from Switzerland (down from 324th in 2019) and the 25th most popular Swiss Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Salomon Gessner ranks 1,293 out of 2,023. Before him are Aloïse Corbaz, Aleksandra Beļcova, Marco Basaiti, Jörg Breu the Elder, Henri-Jean Guillaume Martin, and Bernard Picart. After him are Max Weber, Albert Küchler, Jan Mostaert, Eustache Le Sueur, Torii Kiyonobu I, and Vilhelms Purvītis.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1730, Salomon Gessner ranks 27. Before him are Louis Auguste Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, Johann Hedwig, William Hudson, Koca Yusuf Pasha, Sophie von La Roche, and Princess Charlotte Amalie of Hesse-Philippsthal. After him are Noël Martin Joseph de Necker, Karl George Lebrecht, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen, and Daniel Carroll. Among people deceased in 1788, Salomon Gessner ranks 22. Before him are Charles Christian, Prince of Nassau-Weilburg, Emmanuel-Armand de Richelieu, duc d'Aiguillon, Toriyama Sekien, Giovanni Domenico Maraldi, Francesco Zuccarelli, and Charles Wesley. After him are Pierre André de Suffren, Mary Delany, Juan Bautista de Anza, Benjamin Wilson, and John Whitehurst.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Salomon Gessner ranks 352 out of 1,015. Before him are Casimir de Candolle (1836), Daniel Schmid (1941), Jules Gilliéron (1854), Aloïse Corbaz (1886), Henri Louis Frédéric de Saussure (1829), and Alfred Newton (1829). After him are Jakob Dubs (1822), René Burri (1933), Orgetorix (null), Klaus Huber (1924), Henri Colpi (1921), and Jacques-Louis Soret (1827).

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Among PAINTERS In Switzerland

Among painters born in Switzerland, Salomon Gessner ranks 25. Before him are Jacques-Laurent Agasse (1767), Alexandre Calame (1810), Giovanni Giacometti (1868), Adolf Wölfli (1864), Urs Graf (1485), and Aloïse Corbaz (1886). After him are Hans Erni (1909), Cuno Amiet (1868), Antonio Ciseri (1821), Karl Bodmer (1809), Gottfried Honegger (1917), and Pier Francesco Mola (1612).

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