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Widukind of Corvey

925 - 980

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Widukind of Corvey (c. 925 – after 973; German: Widukind von Corvey, in italian Vitichindo Sacco di Corvey, in Latin VVITICHINDI SAXO) was a medieval Saxon chronicler. His three-volume Res gestae Saxonicae sive annalium libri tres is an important chronicle of 10th-century Germany (Germania) during the rule of the Ottonian dynasty. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Widukind of Corvey is the 1,330th most popular writer (down from 1,307th in 2019), the 1,397th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,327th in 2019) and the 85th most popular German Writer.

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Among writers, Widukind of Corvey ranks 1,330 out of 7,302. Before him are Natalie Clifford Barney, Lu Yu, Abu Tammam, Samuel R. Delany, Henri Murger, and Bankim Chandra Chatterjee. After him are Walter M. Miller Jr., Friedrich Maximilian Klinger, Dag Solstad, Else Lasker-Schüler, Hans Urs von Balthasar, and Barbara Cartland.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 925, Widukind of Corvey ranks 5. Before him are John I Tzimiskes, Gwangjong of Goryeo, Conrad I of Burgundy, and Bruno the Great. After him are Judith, Duchess of Bavaria, and Basil Lekapenos. Among people deceased in 980, Widukind of Corvey ranks 1. After him are Yaropolk I of Kiev, Gunnhild, Mother of Kings, Movses Kaghankatvatsi, Thorvald Asvaldsson, Herbert III of Omois, and Abu'l-Hasan al-Uqlidisi.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Widukind of Corvey ranks 1,397 out of 7,253. Before him are Johann Georg Gmelin (1709), Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach (1907), Leopold I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau (1676), Christa Ludwig (1928), Duchess Charlotte Felicitas of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1671), and Hildegard Knef (1925). After him are Constantin Carathéodory (1873), Andreas Sigismund Marggraf (1709), Anselm Feuerbach (1829), Walter Simons (1861), Thomas Kretschmann (1962), and Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius (1794).

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Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Widukind of Corvey ranks 85. Before him are Gottfried Benn (1886), Anton Praetorius (1560), Theodor Storm (1817), Kurt Tucholsky (1890), Rudolf Erich Raspe (1736), and Wilhelm Müller (1794). After him are Friedrich Maximilian Klinger (1752), Else Lasker-Schüler (1869), Arnold van Gennep (1873), Jakob Wassermann (1873), Karl Heinrich Ulrichs (1825), and Georg Kaiser (1878).

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