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Gottfried Keller
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OverviewAI-generated
Gottfried Keller was a Swiss author whose professional career spanned from 1846 until his death in 1890. Born on July 19, 1819, and deceased on July 15, 1890, he is associated with a substantial body of literature. His notable works include *The people of Seldwyla*, *Seven legends*, *Spiegel, das Kätzchen*, *Aus Gottfried Kellers glücklicher Zeit*, *Roméo et Juliette au Village*, and the *Briefwechsel zwischen Conrad Ferdinand Meyer und Gottfried Keller*.
Records indicate that Keller has 307 works listed in the Open Library, while other sources cite varying counts of 5, 18, and 342 references. He is identified as a person from Switzerland.
Synthesized by Vinony from 20 facts across 7 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, Crossref, Europeana Sparql, MusicBrainz, Open Library, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1819
- Died
- 1890
- Works
- 307
Top works
- Spiegel, das Kätzchen
- The people of Seldwyla, and Seven legends
- Aus Gottfried Kellers glücklicher Zeit
- Roméo et Juliette au Village
- Briefwechsel zwischen Conrad Ferdinand Meyer und Gottfried Keller
via Open Library + Wikidata
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 607
- Total plays
- 9,471
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Conceptualizing, Measuring, and Managing Customer-Based Brand Equity
· 1993 · cited 18,240x
- Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,326x
- A 12-Item Short-Form Health Survey
· 1996 · cited 14,508x
- Greengenes, a Chimera-Checked 16S rRNA Gene Database and Workbench Compatible with ARB
· 2006 · cited 9,459x
- Minimal information for studies of extracellular vesicles 2018 (MISEV2018): a position statement of the International Society for Extracellular Vesicles and update of the MISEV2014 guidelines
· 2018 · cited 9,365x
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Gottfried
- Family name
- Keller
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Switzerland
- Place of birth
- Zurich
- Place of death
- Zurich
- Educated at
- Heidelberg University
- Languages spoken
- German
- Genre
- landscape painting
- Image
- Gottfried Keller 1860.jpeg
- Work location
- Heidelberg
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- P12749
- Anna Karenina
- described by source
- New International Encyclopedia
- name in native language
- Gottfried Keller
- writing language
- German
- Commons Creator page
- Gottfried Keller
- Commons category
- Gottfried Keller
- date of birth
- 1819-07-19
- date of death
- 1890-07-15
- Commons gallery
- Gottfried Keller
- ethnic group
- Swiss
- archives at
- Zentralbibliothek Zürich
- has works in the collection
- Anne Frank House
- start of work period
- 1846-00-00
- municipal affiliation of a Swiss national
- Glattfelden
- end of work period
- 1890-00-00
via Wikidata · CC0
Works in European collections
18 objects attributed to Gottfried Keller, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
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Encyclopedic overview
Gottfried Keller (19 July 1819 – 15 July 1890) was a Swiss poet and writer of German literature. Best known for his novel Green Henry (German: Der grüne Heinrich) and his cycle of novellas called Seldwyla Folks (Die Leute von Seldwyla), he became one of the most popular narrators of literary realism in the late 19th century.
Early life
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