Ludwig van Beethoven

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Ludwig van Beethoven - German composer (1770–1827). This person is the 93^rd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people and the 126^th most popular person in Serbo-Croatian Wikipedia. Article “Ludwig van Beethoven” in Serbo-Croatian Wikipedia has 51.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 13 references and 16 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Serbo-Croatian Wikipedia:

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The 712^th most popular in Serbo-Croatian Wikipedia.

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The 81^st most editable in Serbo-Croatian Wikipedia.

The 126^th most popular in people in Serbo-Croatian Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 249^th most popular in all topics.

The 176^th most popular in AI.

The 93^rd most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

Global Wikipedia:

The 1370^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 1815^th most popular in AI in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Ludwig van Beethoven”, its content was written by 42 registered users of Serbo-Croatian Wikipedia (81^st place) and edited by 10739 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (176^th place).

Ludwig van Beethoven is on the 126^th place in local ranking of people in Serbo-Croatian Wikipedia and on the 93^rd place in global ranking of people in all the time.

The article is cited 238 times in Serbo-Croatian Wikipedia and cited 49361 times in all languages (3211^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Serbo-Croatian): #3 in September 2005
• Global: #52 in September 2009

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Serbo-Croatian): #30 in February 2009
• Global: #38 in December 2015

There are 55 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, 2025 (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) Ludwig van Beethoven		100
2	German (de) Ludwig van Beethoven		100
3	Persian (fa) لودویگ فان بتهوون		100
4	Czech (cs) Ludwig van Beethoven		100
5	Georgian (ka) ლუდვიგ ვან ბეთჰოვენი		100
6	Estonian (et) Ludwig van Beethoven		100
7	Esperanto (eo) Ludwig van Beethoven		99.0476
8	Polish (pl) Ludwig van Beethoven		90.5935
9	Finnish (fi) Ludwig van Beethoven		89.0613
10	Korean (ko) 루트비히 판 베토벤		88.9451

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Ludwig van Beethoven		51 162 973
2	Spanish (es) Ludwig van Beethoven		20 067 039
3	German (de) Ludwig van Beethoven		14 508 826
4	Japanese (ja) ルートヴィヒ・ヴァン・ベートーヴェン		11 472 382
5	Russian (ru) Бетховен, Людвиг ван		10 680 370
6	French (fr) Ludwig van Beethoven		9 312 344
7	Italian (it) Ludwig van Beethoven		6 425 991
8	Portuguese (pt) Ludwig van Beethoven		5 245 805
9	Polish (pl) Ludwig van Beethoven		4 043 204
10	Chinese (zh) 路德维希·范·贝多芬		4 002 839

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Ludwig van Beethoven		123 358
2	German (de) Ludwig van Beethoven		42 435
3	Japanese (ja) ルートヴィヒ・ヴァン・ベートーヴェン		39 641
4	Spanish (es) Ludwig van Beethoven		32 773
5	Russian (ru) Бетховен, Людвиг ван		20 109
6	Chinese (zh) 路德维希·范·贝多芬		17 437
7	French (fr) Ludwig van Beethoven		15 433
8	Korean (ko) 루트비히 판 베토벤		14 935
9	Italian (it) Ludwig van Beethoven		12 092
10	Portuguese (pt) Ludwig van Beethoven		8 374

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Ludwig van Beethoven		2 081
2	German (de) Ludwig van Beethoven		950
3	French (fr) Ludwig van Beethoven		678
4	Italian (it) Ludwig van Beethoven		629
5	Spanish (es) Ludwig van Beethoven		529
6	Russian (ru) Бетховен, Людвиг ван		450
7	Dutch (nl) Ludwig van Beethoven		355
8	Japanese (ja) ルートヴィヒ・ヴァン・ベートーヴェン		322
9	Chinese (zh) 路德维希·范·贝多芬		293
10	Portuguese (pt) Ludwig van Beethoven		272

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Italian (it) Ludwig van Beethoven		12
2	Hungarian (hu) Ludwig van Beethoven		5
3	Russian (ru) Бетховен, Людвиг ван		5
4	Korean (ko) 루트비히 판 베토벤		4
5	Swedish (sv) Ludwig van Beethoven		4
6	Czech (cs) Ludwig van Beethoven		2
7	German (de) Ludwig van Beethoven		2
8	English (en) Ludwig van Beethoven		2
9	Chinese (zh) 路德维希·范·贝多芬		2
10	Arabic (ar) لودفيج فان بيتهوفن		1

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

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