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Wilhelm Hauff

1802 - 1827

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Wilhelm Hauff (29 November 1802 – 18 November 1827) was a German poet and novelist. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Wilhelm Hauff is the 824th most popular writer (down from 790th in 2019), the 829th most popular biography from Germany (down from 753rd in 2019) and the 47th most popular German Writer.

Wilhelm Hauff is most famous for his fairy tales.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Wilhelm Hauff ranks 824 out of 7,302. Before him are Nikolay Karamzin, James Jones, Aelia Eudocia, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Colleen McCullough, and Zeb-un-Nissa. After him are Theodore Beza, Alain-René Lesage, Elsa Morante, Nikolai Ostrovsky, Kobayashi Issa, and John Bunyan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1802, Wilhelm Hauff ranks 11. Before him are Elias Lönnrot, Lajos Kossuth, János Bolyai, Miguel I of Portugal, Edwin Landseer, and Louis-Eugène Cavaignac. After him are Charles Wheatstone, Antoine Jérôme Balard, Alcide d'Orbigny, Pavel Nakhimov, Hermann Goldschmidt, and Nikolaus Lenau. Among people deceased in 1827, Wilhelm Hauff ranks 9. Before him are Pierre-Simon Laplace, Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi, William Blake, Augustin-Jean Fresnel, Frederick Augustus I of Saxony, and Maria Theresa of Austria. After him are Ugo Foscolo, Samuel Crompton, Wilhelm Müller, George Canning, Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany, and Morten Thrane Brünnich.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Wilhelm Hauff ranks 829 out of 7,253. Before him are Albrecht III Achilles, Elector of Brandenburg (1414), Ferdinand Maria, Elector of Bavaria (1636), Johann Tetzel (1460), Ferdinand von Lindemann (1852), Carl Spitzweg (1808), and Francis, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (1750). After him are Ludwig Quidde (1858), Wolfgang Schäuble (1942), Hermann Cohen (1842), Sabine Bergmann-Pohl (1946), Bernd Schuster (1959), and Otto III, Duke of Bavaria (1261).

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Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Wilhelm Hauff ranks 47. Before him are Hugo Ball (1886), Bernhard Schlink (1944), Christoph Martin Wieland (1733), Anna Seghers (1900), Achim von Arnim (1781), and Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock (1724). After him are Karl Harrer (1890), Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen (1622), Thietmar of Merseburg (975), Radegund (518), Hans Fallada (1893), and Theodor Fontane (1819).

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