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Anders Chydenius

1729 - 1803

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Anders Chydenius (Finland Swedish: [ˈandærs tɕyˈdeːniʉs]; 26 February 1729 – 1 February 1803) was a Swedish-Finnish Lutheran priest and a member of the Swedish Riksdag, and is known as the leading classical liberal of Nordic history.Born in Sotkamo, Finland (then part of Sweden) and having studied under Pehr Kalm at the Royal Academy of Åbo, Chydenius became a priest and Enlightenment philosopher. He was elected as an ecclesiastic member of the Swedish Riksdag of the Estates in 1765–66, in which his Cap party seized the majority and government and championed Sweden's first Freedom of the Press Act, the most liberal in the world along with those of Great Britain and the Seven United Provinces. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Anders Chydenius has received more than 138,829 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Anders Chydenius is the 384th most popular physician (down from 361st in 2019), the 115th most popular biography from Finland (down from 109th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Finnish Physician.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Anders Chydenius ranks 384 out of 502Before him are Ali ibn Ridwan, Kurt Polycarp Joachim Sprengel, René Favaloro, Marcus Elieser Bloch, Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland, and Friedrich Daniel von Recklinghausen. After him are James Barry, Alfonso López Trujillo, Stamen Grigorov, Wilhelm Fliess, Johann Lukas Schönlein, and Zhong Nanshan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1729, Anders Chydenius ranks 21Before him are William Howe, 5th Viscount Howe, Johann Reinhold Forster, Pierre André de Suffren, Michał Kazimierz Ogiński, Gaétan Vestris, and Christian Gottlob Heyne. After him are Michael von Melas, Johann Gottlieb Georgi, Giuseppe Parini, Charles Henri Hector d'Estaing, Michael Denis, and Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny. Among people deceased in 1803, Anders Chydenius ranks 28Before him are Arthur Guinness, Sylvain Maréchal, Jean-François de La Harpe, Nicolas Baudin, Prince Frederick Adolf, Duke of Östergötland, and Maria Fortunata d'Este. After him are Pōmare I, Georg I, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen, Christoph Bartholomäus Anton Migazzi, Peter Woulfe, Jean François de Saint-Lambert, and Georges-Louis Le Sage.

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In Finland

Among people born in Finland, Anders Chydenius ranks 115 out of 642Before him are Lauri Ingman (1868), Kaija Saariaho (1952), Bo Carpelan (1926), Eero Mäntyranta (1937), Mika Kaurismäki (1955), and Lauri Lehtinen (1908). After him are Aimo Lahti (1896), Volmari Iso-Hollo (1907), Antti Rinne (1962), Harri Holkeri (1937), Carl Johan Adlercreutz (1759), and Anders Johan Lexell (1740).

Among PHYSICIANS In Finland

Among physicians born in Finland, Anders Chydenius ranks 3Before him are Elias Lönnrot (1802) and Ragnar Granit (1900). After him are Erik Adolf von Willebrand (1870) and Arvo Ylppö (1887).