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Aasmund Olavsson Vinje

1818 - 1870

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Aasmund Olavsson Vinje (6 April 1818 – 30 July 1870) was a Norwegian poet and journalist who is remembered for poetry, travel writing, and his pioneering use of Landsmål (now known as Nynorsk). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Aasmund Olavsson Vinje has received more than 41,829 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Aasmund Olavsson Vinje is the 3,460th most popular writer (down from 3,345th in 2019), the 200th most popular biography from Norway (up from 227th in 2019) and the 35th most popular Norwegian Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Aasmund Olavsson Vinje ranks 3,460 out of 5,755Before him are Marianne Moore, Ramón Chao, Jaroslav Vrchlický, Nobuko Yoshiya, Vasily Trediakovsky, and Mikayel Nalbandian. After him are George the Hagiorite, Zsigmond Móricz, Bonaventure des Périers, Brandon Sanderson, Varian Fry, and Alf Prøysen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1818, Aasmund Olavsson Vinje ranks 62Before him are Amelia Bloomer, Şihabetdin Märcani, Theodor Kullak, Mahmud Nedim Pasha, Josip Filipović, and Louis Faidherbe. After him are Angelica Singleton Van Buren, Irvin McDowell, Tassilo von Heydebrand und der Lasa, Louis Buffet, Mikhail Katkov, and Ludwig Traube. Among people deceased in 1870, Aasmund Olavsson Vinje ranks 40Before him are Victor de Broglie, Imre Frivaldszky, Alexei Lvov, Princess Amalie of Saxony, Majid bin Said of Zanzibar, and Infante Enrique, Duke of Seville. After him are James Young Simpson, Pieter Bleeker, Arthur Saint-Léon, Johann Heinrich Blasius, Michael William Balfe, and Moshoeshoe I.

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In Norway

Among people born in Norway, Aasmund Olavsson Vinje ranks 200 out of 927Before him are Knut Haugland (1917), Paul Waaktaar-Savoy (1961), Thekla Resvoll (1871), Fred Anton Maier (1938), Erling Skakke (1115), and Christopher Hansteen (1784). After him are Odvar Nordli (1927), Alf Prøysen (1914), Sverre Hassel (1876), Eva Joly (1943), Peter Wessel Zapffe (1899), and Martinus Rørbye (1803).

Among WRITERS In Norway

Among writers born in Norway, Aasmund Olavsson Vinje ranks 35Before him are Eysteinn Erlendsson (1120), Amalie Skram (1846), Sigurd Hoel (1890), Johan Herman Wessel (1742), Gunnar Staalesen (1947), and Per Petterson (1952). After him are Alf Prøysen (1914), Peter Wessel Zapffe (1899), Þorbjörn Hornklofi (900), Lars Saabye Christensen (1953), Dorothe Engelbretsdatter (1634), and Anne-Cath. Vestly (1920).