Farbenlehre (Goethe)

Theory of Colours - 1810 book by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. This book is the 1212^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of books and the 382^nd most popular book in German Wikipedia. Article “Farbenlehre (Goethe)” in German Wikipedia has 48.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 26 references and 13 sections.

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (German) language version.

Since the creation of article “Farbenlehre (Goethe)”, its content was written by 180 registered users of German Wikipedia and edited by 742 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Theory of Colours is on the 382^nd place in local ranking of books in German Wikipedia and on the 1212^th place in global ranking of books in all the time.

The article is cited 198 times in German Wikipedia and cited 1033 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (German): #1041 in August 2019
• Global: #22625 in August 2019

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (German): #8670 in May 2010
• Global: #57985 in May 2010

There are 25 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2026 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Theory of Colours		76.8066
2	Greek (el) Θεωρία των Χρωμάτων		65.8262
3	Basque (eu) Koloreen teoria (Goethe)		62.0509
4	Italian (it) La teoria dei colori (Goethe)		58.4345
5	German (de) Farbenlehre (Goethe)		48.7434
6	Simple English (simple) Theory of Colours		41.0805
7	Catalan (ca) Teoria dels colors		31.367
8	Dutch (nl) Kleurenleer van Goethe		26.2846
9	French (fr) Traité des couleurs		25.3654
10	Swedish (sv) Zur Farbenlehre		24.9064

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "Farbenlehre (Goethe)" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Theory of Colours		1 486 234
2	German (de) Farbenlehre (Goethe)		968 286
3	Italian (it) La teoria dei colori (Goethe)		554 407
4	Spanish (es) Teoría de los colores		515 365
5	Japanese (ja) 色彩論		289 287
6	French (fr) Traité des couleurs		187 863
7	Dutch (nl) Kleurenleer van Goethe		168 265
8	Russian (ru) К теории цвета		124 765
9	Portuguese (pt) Teoria das Cores (livro)		67 589
10	Danish (da) Goethes farvelære		52 821

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Farbenlehre (Goethe)" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Theory of Colours		3 733
2	German (de) Farbenlehre (Goethe)		2 842
3	Italian (it) La teoria dei colori (Goethe)		919
4	Spanish (es) Teoría de los colores		714
5	French (fr) Traité des couleurs		669
6	Japanese (ja) 色彩論		656
7	Russian (ru) К теории цвета		425
8	Dutch (nl) Kleurenleer van Goethe		289
9	Portuguese (pt) Teoria das Cores (livro)		179
10	Chinese (zh) 色彩理论 (歌德)		155

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "Farbenlehre (Goethe)" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Theory of Colours		191
2	German (de) Farbenlehre (Goethe)		180
3	Italian (it) La teoria dei colori (Goethe)		83
4	French (fr) Traité des couleurs		57
5	Dutch (nl) Kleurenleer van Goethe		44
6	Spanish (es) Teoría de los colores		32
7	Japanese (ja) 色彩論		22
8	Simple English (simple) Theory of Colours		20
9	Russian (ru) К теории цвета		16
10	Hebrew (he) תאוריית הצבעים של גתה		12

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "Farbenlehre (Goethe)" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Basque (eu) Koloreen teoria (Goethe)		2
2	Arabic (ar) نظرية الألوان		1
3	Belarusian (be) Вучэнне пра колер		0
4	Bulgarian (bg) Теория на цветовете		0
5	Catalan (ca) Teoria dels colors		0
6	Danish (da) Goethes farvelære		0
7	German (de) Farbenlehre (Goethe)		0
8	Greek (el) Θεωρία των Χρωμάτων		0
9	English (en) Theory of Colours		0
10	Spanish (es) Teoría de los colores		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "Farbenlehre (Goethe)" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Theory of Colours		406
2	German (de) Farbenlehre (Goethe)		198
3	French (fr) Traité des couleurs		86
4	Italian (it) La teoria dei colori (Goethe)		75
5	Arabic (ar) نظرية الألوان		48
6	Russian (ru) К теории цвета		39
7	Spanish (es) Teoría de los colores		30
8	Chinese (zh) 色彩理论 (歌德)		23
9	Japanese (ja) 色彩論		21
10	Catalan (ca) Teoria dels colors		16

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic نظرية الألوان
be	Belarusian Вучэнне пра колер
bg	Bulgarian Теория на цветовете
ca	Catalan Teoria dels colors
da	Danish Goethes farvelære
de	German Farbenlehre (Goethe)
el	Greek Θεωρία των Χρωμάτων
en	English Theory of Colours
es	Spanish Teoría de los colores
eu	Basque Koloreen teoria (Goethe)
fi	Finnish Zur Farbenlehre
fr	French Traité des couleurs
he	Hebrew תאוריית הצבעים של גתה
id	Indonesian Teori Warna
it	Italian La teoria dei colori (Goethe)
ja	Japanese 色彩論
ka	Georgian ფერადობის თეორია
ko	Korean 색채론
nl	Dutch Kleurenleer van Goethe
no	Norwegian Goethes farvelære
pt	Portuguese Teoria das Cores (livro)
ru	Russian К теории цвета
simple	Simple English Theory of Colours
sv	Swedish Zur Farbenlehre
zh	Chinese 色彩理论 (歌德)

Best Rank

German: #8670 05.2010

Global: #57985 05.2010

Best Rank

German: #1041 08.2019

Global: #22625 08.2019

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