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Árni Magnússon

1663 - 1730

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Árni Magnússon (Icelandic pronunciation: [ˈau(r)tnɪ ˈmaknusˌsɔn]; 13 November 1663 – 7 January 1730) was an Icelandic scholar and collector of manuscripts who assembled the Arnamagnæan Manuscript Collection. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Árni Magnússon has received more than 51,963 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Árni Magnússon is the 111th most popular historian (up from 120th in 2019), the 245th most popular biography from Sweden (up from 265th in 2019) and the most popular Swedish Historian.

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Árni Magnússon ranks 111 out of 561. Before him are Jean-Pierre Vernant, Andrea Alciato, Reinhart Koselleck, Golo Mann, Paul Veyne, and René Grousset. After him are August Ludwig von Schlözer, Richard Sennett, Natalie Zemon Davis, Henry Thomas Buckle, Richard Pipes, and Leo the Deacon.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1663, Árni Magnússon ranks 4. Before him are Prince Eugene of Savoy, Thomas Newcomen, and Ferdinando de' Medici, Grand Prince of Tuscany. After him are Guillaume Amontons, August Hermann Francke, Tomaso Antonio Vitali, Friedrich Wilhelm Zachow, Lobsang Yeshe, 5th Panchen Lama, Luca Carlevarijs, Cotton Mather, and Agafya Grushetskaya. Among people deceased in 1730, Árni Magnússon ranks 9. Before him are Frederick IV of Denmark, Leonardo Vinci, Theresa Kunegunda Sobieska, Charles I, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel, Hans Hermann von Katte, and Jakob Ammann. After him are Adrienne Lecouvreur, François de Neufville, duc de Villeroy, Luigi Ferdinando Marsili, Benedicta Henrietta of the Palatinate, Ashraf Hotak, and Patrona Halil.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Árni Magnússon ranks 245 out of 1,879. Before him are Mats Wilander (1964), Carl Gustaf Mosander (1797), John Ericsson (1803), Camilla Läckberg (1974), Gustav Horn, Count of Pori (1592), and Lennart Bernadotte (1909). After him are Prince Erik, Duke of Västmanland (1889), Johan Vilhelm Snellman (1806), Anna of Sweden (1545), Gunnar Björnstrand (1909), Jan Guillou (1944), and Johannes Magnus (1488).

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Among HISTORIANS In Sweden

Among historians born in Sweden, Árni Magnússon ranks 1. After him are Artur Hazelius (1833), and Horace Engdahl (1948).

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