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August Ahlqvist

1826 - 1889

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Karl August Engelbrekt Ahlqvist, who wrote as A. Oksanen (7 August 1826 – 20 November 1889), was a Finnish professor, poet, scholar of the Finno-Ugric languages, author, and literary critic. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of August Ahlqvist has received more than 23,397 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). August Ahlqvist is the 4,263rd most popular writer (up from 4,731st in 2019), the 221st most popular biography from Finland (up from 265th in 2019) and the 22nd most popular Finnish Writer.

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  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.23

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.71

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, August Ahlqvist ranks 4,263 out of 7,302. Before him are Yu Dafu, Richard Beer-Hofmann, Guzal Sitdikova, Richard Pococke, Joachim Ringelnatz, and Rube Goldberg. After him are Josef Kajetán Tyl, Krishan Chander, Adalet Ağaoğlu, Roy Jacobsen, Vladislav Khodasevich, and Ciro Alegría.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1826, August Ahlqvist ranks 49. Before him are Rahime Perestu Sultan, Gustav Heinrich Wiedemann, Matilda Joslyn Gage, İbrahim Şinasi, Spotted Elk, and Silvestro Lega. After him are Mariano Ignacio Prado, Domenico Morelli, Johann Köler, Hans Peter Jørgen Julius Thomsen, Henry Clifton Sorby, and Friedrich Chrysander. Among people deceased in 1889, August Ahlqvist ranks 66. Before him are Miles Joseph Berkeley, Ole Jacob Broch, Pyotr Andreyevich Shuvalov, Domingo Santa María, Gustav Lange, and Ernst Rudolf von Trautvetter. After him are José Joaquín Pérez, Michele Amari, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Juan Montalvo, Julia Gardiner Tyler, and Paul du Bois-Reymond.

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In Finland

Among people born in Finland, August Ahlqvist ranks 221 out of 751. Before him are Vesa-Matti Loiri (1945), Sofi Oksanen (1977), Matti Salminen (1945), Antti Hackzell (1881), Arvo Askola (1909), and Vilho Lampi (1898). After him are Woldemar Hägglund (1893), Timo Mäkinen (1938), V. J. Sukselainen (1906), Edvin Wide (1896), Kurt Martti Wallenius (1893), and Maria Wiik (1853).

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Among WRITERS In Finland

Among writers born in Finland, August Ahlqvist ranks 22. Before him are Bo Carpelan (1926), Paavo Haavikko (1931), Johannes Linnankoski (1869), Lydia Chukovskaya (1907), Frans Michael Franzén (1772), and Sofi Oksanen (1977). After him are Adolf Ivar Arwidsson (1791), Märta Tikkanen (1935), Rosa Liksom (1958), Antti Tuuri (1944), Sam Lake (1970), and Tua Forsström (1947).

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