The Most Famous
Historians from Denmark
This page contains a list of the greatest Danish Historians. The pantheon dataset contains 561 Historians, 2 of which were born in Denmark. This makes Denmark the birth place of the 36th most number of Historians behind Australia and Estonia.
Top 2 Danish Historians
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Danish Historians of all time. This list of famous Danish Historians is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography's online popularity.
- #1
Saxo Grammaticus
1150 - 1220
HPI 74.0156 langsSaxo Grammaticus is most famous for his book "Gesta Danorum" which is a collection of stories about the history of Denmark.
- #2
Patricia Crone
1945 - 2015
HPI 58.2023 langsDanish Orientalist and historian (1945–2015)
