New games! PlayTrivia andBirthle.

WRITER

Adam Oehlenschläger

1779 - 1850

Photo of Adam Oehlenschläger

Icon of person Adam Oehlenschläger

Adam Gottlob Oehlenschläger (Danish pronunciation: [ˈɛːtɑm ˈkʌtlʌp ˈøˀln̩ˌsleːjɐ]; 14 November 1779 – 20 January 1850) was a Danish poet and playwright. He introduced romanticism into Danish literature. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Adam Oehlenschläger has received more than 125,659 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia. Adam Oehlenschläger is the 1,834th most popular writer (down from 1,670th in 2019), the 194th most popular biography from Denmark (down from 177th in 2019) and the 16th most popular Danish Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 130k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 55.94

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 29

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.15

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.90

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Page views of Adam Oehlenschlägers by language


Among WRITERS

Among writers, Adam Oehlenschläger ranks 1,834 out of 5,755Before him are Eino Leino, Stéphanie Félicité, comtesse de Genlis, Surdas, Miklós Nyiszli, Karin Boye, and Shen Yue. After him are Jean-Marie Roland de la Platière, Alberto Manguel, Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, Eugenio Barba, Jacques Cazotte, and Anthony Trollope.

Most Popular Writers in Wikipedia

Go to all Rankings

Contemporaries

Among people born in 1779, Adam Oehlenschläger ranks 15Before him are Antoine-Henri Jomini, Thomas Moore, Maria Cristina of Naples and Sicily, George, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Abd al-Rahman of Morocco, and Duchess Louise Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. After him are Princess Antoinette of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, Madeleine Sophie Barat, Archduke Anton Victor of Austria, Infanta María Amalia of Spain, Lorenz Oken, and Adam Müller. Among people deceased in 1850, Adam Oehlenschläger ranks 24Before him are Vincent Pallotti, Nikolaus Lenau, Józef Bem, Archduke Ferdinand Karl Joseph of Austria-Este, Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge, and William Sturgeon. After him are Johann Gottfried Schadow, William Prout, Wilhelm Beer, Gustav Schwab, John C. Calhoun, and Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville.

Others Born in 1779

Go to all Rankings

Others Deceased in 1850

Go to all Rankings

In Denmark

Among people born in Denmark, Adam Oehlenschläger ranks 194 out of 893Before him are Prince Axel of Denmark (1888), Dorothea of Denmark, Duchess of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1546), John II, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg (1545), Edvard Eriksen (1876), Dorothea of Denmark, Electress Palatine (1520), and Jan Gehl (1936). After him are Preben Elkjær (1957), Prince Harald of Denmark (1876), Princess Caroline of Denmark (1793), Poul Schlüter (1929), Princess Frederica Amalia of Denmark (1649), and Peter Naur (1928).

Among WRITERS In Denmark

Among writers born in Denmark, Adam Oehlenschläger ranks 16Before him are N. F. S. Grundtvig (1783), Martin Andersen Nexø (1869), Tove Ditlevsen (1917), Jussi Adler-Olsen (1950), Aksel Sandemose (1899), and Ole Nydahl (1941). After him are Kaj Munk (1898), Herman Bang (1857), Leonora Christina Ulfeldt (1621), Jens Fink-Jensen (1956), Inger Christensen (1935), and Peter Høeg (1957).