The Most Famous
HISTORIANS from Denmark
This page contains a list of the greatest Danish Historians. The pantheon dataset contains 339 Historians, 2 of which were born in Denmark. This makes Denmark the birth place of the 29th most number of Historians behind Afghanistan and Saudi Arabia.
Top 2
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)
With an HPI of 69.89, Saxo Grammaticus is the most famous Danish Historian. His biography has been translated into 53 different languages on wikipedia.
Saxo Grammaticus (c. 1150 – c. 1220), also known as Saxo cognomine Longus, was a Danish historian, theologian and author. He is thought to have been a clerk or secretary to Absalon, Archbishop of Lund, the main advisor to Valdemar I of Denmark. He is the author of the Gesta Danorum, the first full history of Denmark, from which the legend of Amleth would come to inspire the story of Hamlet by Shakespeare.
2. Patricia Crone (1945 - 2015)
With an HPI of 46.63, Patricia Crone is the 2nd most famous Danish Historian. Her biography has been translated into 20 different languages.
Patricia Crone (28 March 1945 – 11 July 2015) was a Danish historian specialising in early Islamic history. Crone was a member of the Revisionist school of Islamic studies and questioned the historicity of the Islamic traditions about the beginnings of Islam.
Pantheon has 2 people classified as historians born between 1150 and 1945. Of these 2, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased historians include Saxo Grammaticus and Patricia Crone.
