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Sebastian Franck

1499 - 1543

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Sebastian Franck (20 January 1499 Donauwörth, Swabia – c. 1543 Basel, Switzerland) was a 16th-century German freethinker, humanist, and radical reformer. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Sebastian Franck is the 2,932nd most popular writer (down from 2,733rd in 2019), the 3,101st most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,884th in 2019) and the 189th most popular German Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Sebastian Franck ranks 2,932 out of 7,302. Before him are Kató Lomb, Bernardo Guimarães, Maryana Marrash, T. H. White, Marie Marvingt, and Moderata Fonte. After him are Saigyō, Gottschalk of Orbais, Joe Hill, Antonio de Guevara, Subramania Bharati, and Mouloud Feraoun.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1499, Sebastian Franck ranks 17. Before him are Mirza Muhammad Haidar Dughlat, Maria Salviati, Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo, Michiel Coxie, Jan Łaski, Polidoro da Caravaggio, and Garcia de Orta. After him are Laurentius Petri, Edmund Tudor, Duke of Somerset, Gjon Buzuku, Lempira, and Peter Martyr Vermigli. Among people deceased in 1543, Sebastian Franck ranks 13. Before him are George, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach, Johann Eck, Quli Qutb Shah, Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo, Maria Salviati, and Francesco Canova da Milano. After him are Francesco Granacci, Magnus I, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg, Polidoro da Caravaggio, Susanna of Bavaria, and Melchior Hoffman.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Sebastian Franck ranks 3,103 out of 7,253. Before him are Princess Maria Anna of Anhalt-Dessau (1837), Karl Kling (1910), Carlos Schwabe (1866), Princess Emma of Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym (1802), Julian Nagelsmann (1987), and Rosemarie Ackermann (1952). After him are Rudolf Klein-Rogge (1885), Adolf Kussmaul (1822), Gottschalk of Orbais (805), Lorenz Heister (1683), Joachim Ernst, Duke of Anhalt (1901), and Armin Hary (1937).

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Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Sebastian Franck ranks 189. Before him are Wolfgang Iser (1926), Stefan Heym (1913), Solomon Perel (1925), Richard Dehmel (1863), Augustus, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg (1772), and George Mosse (1918). After him are Gottschalk of Orbais (805), Günter Eich (1907), Willibald Pirckheimer (1470), Heinrich Vogeler (1872), Georg Herwegh (1817), and Johann Christoph Friedrich GutsMuths (1759).

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