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Cornelis Tromp

1629 - 1691

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Cornelis Maartenszoon Tromp, Count of Sølvesborg (3 September 1629 – 29 May 1691) was a Dutch naval officer who served as lieutenant-admiral general in the Dutch Navy, and briefly as a general admiral in the Royal Danish-Norwegian Navy. Tromp is one of the most celebrated and controversial figures in Dutch naval history due to his actions in the Anglo-Dutch Wars and the Scanian War. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Cornelis Tromp has received more than 167,080 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Cornelis Tromp is the 3,347th most popular writer (down from 1,986th in 2019), the 535th most popular biography from Netherlands (down from 302nd in 2019) and the 25th most popular Dutch Writer.

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  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.10

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.77

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Cornelis Tromp ranks 3,347 out of 7,302. Before him are Henry Becque, Yu Hua, Abu Ali Bal'ami, Francesco de Sanctis, David Crystal, and Isaac Casaubon. After him are Valerius Antias, John Ford, Karl Ove Knausgård, Eysteinn Erlendsson, Morgan Robertson, and Bernardo Guimarães.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1629, Cornelis Tromp ranks 20. Before him are Adolph John I, Count Palatine of Kleeburg, Agnes Block, Symeon of Polotsk, Laurent Cassegrain, Niels Juel, and Jean-Henri d'Anglebert.  Among people deceased in 1691, Cornelis Tromp ranks 14. Before him are François-Michel le Tellier, Marquis de Louvois, Carlo Rainaldi, Frederick I, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg, Richard Baxter, Jean-Henri d'Anglebert, and Isaac de Benserade. After him are Adrien Auzout, and Sultan Bahu.

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In Netherlands

Among people born in Netherlands, Cornelis Tromp ranks 535 out of 1,646. Before him are Adrianus Johannes Simonis (1931), Willem Frederik Hermans (1921), Johannes van den Bosch (1780), Jan van de Cappelle (1624), Abraham Pais (1918), and Arnold Mühren (1951). After him are Dirk van der Aa (1731), Willem van de Velde the Elder (1611), Walter Lewin (1936), Abraham van Diepenbeeck (1596), Anna van Egmont (1533), and Michael van Langren (1598).

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Among WRITERS In Netherlands

Among writers born in Netherlands, Cornelis Tromp ranks 25. Before him are Macropedius (1487), Louis Couperus (1863), Gerard Reve (1923), Cornelis Vreeswijk (1937), Jacob Israël de Haan (1881), and Willem Frederik Hermans (1921). After him are Corrie ten Boom (1892), Tim Krabbé (1943), Abraham Jacob van der Aa (1792), Bertus Aafjes (1914), Gysbert Japiks (1603), and Hendrik Willem van Loon (1882).

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