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August Bournonville

1805 - 1879

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August Bournonville (21 August 1805 – 30 November 1879) was a Danish ballet master and choreographer. He was the son of Antoine Bournonville, a dancer and choreographer trained under the French choreographer, Jean Georges Noverre, and the nephew of Julie Alix de la Fay, née Bournonville, of the Royal Swedish Ballet. Bournonville was born in Copenhagen, Denmark, where his father had settled. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of August Bournonville has received more than 113,464 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). August Bournonville is the 30th most popular dancer (up from 35th in 2019), the 170th most popular biography from Denmark (up from 184th in 2019) and the most popular Danish Dancer.

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  • 8.45

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  • 1.78

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among DANCERS

Among dancers, August Bournonville ranks 30 out of 116. Before him are Izumo no Okuni, Bronislava Nijinska, Olga Khokhlova, Filippo Taglioni, La Goulue, and Mary Wigman. After him are Pierre Beauchamp, Liane de Pougy, Alexander Godunov, Marie-Anne de Cupis de Camargo, Agrippina Vaganova, and Lev Ivanov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1805, August Bournonville ranks 21. Before him are Robert FitzRoy, Adalbert Stifter, Ewelina Hańska, Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin, Thomas Graham, and 9th Dalai Lama. After him are Shirali Muslimov, Cochise, Joseph Škoda, Jonas Furrer, George Müller, and Peter Johann Nepomuk Geiger. Among people deceased in 1879, August Bournonville ranks 16. Before him are Julia Margaret Cameron, August Grisebach, Charles De Coster, Jón Sigurðsson, Maria Teresa of Savoy, and Sher Ali Khan. After him are Camille Doncieux, Heinrich Geißler, William, Prince of Orange, Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville, Maurycy Gottlieb, and Johann Friedrich von Brandt.

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In Denmark

Among people born in Denmark, August Bournonville ranks 170 out of 1,032. Before him are Preben Elkjær (1957), Princess Frederica Amalia of Denmark (1649), Aksel Sandemose (1899), Carl Bloch (1834), Princess Margaret of Denmark (1895), and Anne of Denmark, Electress of Saxony (1532). After him are Thyra (800), Princess Marie Luise Charlotte of Hesse-Kassel (1814), Peter Naur (1928), Mette Frederiksen (1977), John II, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg (1545), and Lars Løkke Rasmussen (1964).

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Among DANCERS In Denmark

Among dancers born in Denmark, August Bournonville ranks 1. After him are Louise Rasmussen (1815), and Lucile Grahn (1819).

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