New games! PlayTrivia andBirthle.

SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Axel Munthe

1857 - 1949

Photo of Axel Munthe

Icon of person Axel Munthe

Axel Martin Fredrik Munthe (31 October 1857 – 11 February 1949) was a Swedish-born physician and psychiatrist, best known as the author of The Story of San Michele, an autobiographical account of his life and work. He spoke several languages (Swedish, English, French, Italian fluently, and German at least passably), grew up in Sweden, attended medical school there, then studied medicine in Paris and opened his first practice in France. He was married to a wealthy Englishwoman and spent most of his adult life in Italy. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Axel Munthe has received more than 277,043 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Axel Munthe is the 80th most popular social activist (down from 62nd in 2019), the 93rd most popular biography from Sweden (down from 90th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Swedish Social Activist.

Axel Munthe is most famous for being a Swedish physician and writer. He was born in 1857 and died in 1949. Munthe is most famous for writing the autobiographical book "The Story of San Michele" which was published in 1932. In this book, Munthe describes his time spent as a doctor at a villa on the island of Capri, Italy.

Memorability Metrics

  • 280k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 64.29

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 32

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.36

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.03

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Axel Munthes by language


Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Axel Munthe ranks 80 out of 538. Before him are Abimael Guzmán, Buenaventura Durruti, Betty Williams, Aleksandr Ulyanov, Annie Besant, and Thomas Cranmer. After him are Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, Liu Xiaobo, Edmond James de Rothschild, Bugsy Siegel, Sakamoto Ryōma, and Gerald Durrell.

Most Popular Social Activists in Wikipedia

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Contemporaries

Among people born in 1857, Axel Munthe ranks 23. Before him are Alexander of Battenberg, Theo van Gogh, Thorstein Veblen, Ronald Ross, Julius Wagner-Jauregg, and Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich of Russia. After him are Andrija Mohorovičić, Paul Doumer, Antoni Grabowski, Lucien Lévy-Bruhl, Georg Michaelis, and Joseph Babinski. Among people deceased in 1949, Axel Munthe ranks 16. Before him are James Ensor, Louis II, Prince of Monaco, Friedrich Bergius, Elton Mayo, August Krogh, and Victor Fleming. After him are Kim Jong-suk, Kim Koo, Sarojini Naidu, Klaus Mann, Nathuram Godse, and Fyodor Tolbukhin.

Others Born in 1857

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Others Deceased in 1949

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Axel Munthe ranks 93 out of 1,612. Before him are Charles Frederick, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp (1700), Prince Carl, Duke of Västergötland (1861), Stieg Larsson (1954), Verner von Heidenstam (1859), Ermanaric (400), and Hugo Theorell (1903). After him are Birger Jarl (1210), Anund Jacob (1008), Hannes Alfvén (1908), Hilma af Klint (1862), Olaus Magnus (1490), and Princess Birgitta of Sweden (1937).

Others born in Sweden

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In Sweden

Among social activists born in Sweden, Axel Munthe ranks 2. Before him are Gustav I of Sweden (1496). After him are Engelbrekt Engelbrektsson (1390), Joe Hill (1879), Greta Thunberg (2003), Sophie Adlersparre (1823), and Katarina Taikon (1932).

Swedish born Social Activists

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous
  • DatawheelCL