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Willibald Pirckheimer

1470 - 1530

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Willibald Pirckheimer (5 December 1470 – 22 December 1530) was a German Renaissance lawyer, author and Renaissance humanist, a wealthy and prominent figure in Nuremberg in the 16th century, imperial counsellor and a member of the governing City Council for two periods. One of the most important cultural patrons of Germany in his own right, he was the closest friend of the artist Albrecht Dürer, who made a number of portraits of him, and a close friend of the great humanist and theologian Erasmus. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Willibald Pirckheimer is the 2,981st most popular writer (up from 3,369th in 2019), the 3,142nd most popular biography from Germany (up from 3,477th in 2019) and the 192nd most popular German Writer.

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Among writers, Willibald Pirckheimer ranks 2,981 out of 7,302. Before him are Mahasweta Devi, Marija Jurić Zagorka, Abraham Goldfaden, Robert de Nola, Dracontius, and Tom Sharpe. After him are L. Sprague de Camp, Félix Fénéon, Dominique Lapierre, Crates, Stefanie Zweig, and John Cleland.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1470, Willibald Pirckheimer ranks 23. Before him are Vincenzo Catena, Wen Zhengming, Fernando de Rojas, João I of Kongo, Bartolomeo Tromboncino, and Bernardo Dovizi. After him are Ludovico di Varthema, Gonzalo Guerrero, Marco Basaiti, Fernão de Loronha, Daniel Hopfer, and Polydore Vergil. Among people deceased in 1530, Willibald Pirckheimer ranks 16. Before him are Judah Leon Abravanel, Jacopo Sannazaro, Properzia de' Rossi, Konstanty Ostrogski, Bramantino, and Nicholas, Count of Salm. After him are Marco Basaiti, Niklaus Manuel Deutsch, Eric Trolle, Kanō Masanobu, and Diogo Lopes de Sequeira.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Willibald Pirckheimer ranks 3,144 out of 7,253. Before him are Otto Henry, Count Palatine of Sulzbach (1556), George Mountbatten, 2nd Marquess of Milford Haven (1892), Tom Tykwer (1965), Johann Niemann (1913), Princess Charlotte of Saxe-Hildburghausen (1787), and Günter Wand (1912). After him are Heinrich XIII, Prince Reuss of Greiz (1747), Rudolf Stammler (1856), Friedrich, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg (1814), Alfred Delp (1907), Heinz Flohe (1948), and Eduard Wagner (1894).

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Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Willibald Pirckheimer ranks 192. Before him are Richard Dehmel (1863), Augustus, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg (1772), George Mosse (1918), Sebastian Franck (1499), Gottschalk of Orbais (805), and Günter Eich (1907). After him are Heinrich Vogeler (1872), Georg Herwegh (1817), Johann Christoph Friedrich GutsMuths (1759), Christian Dietrich Grabbe (1801), Christoph Friedrich Nicolai (1733), and Friedrich Wolf (1888).

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