WRITER

Ellen Key

1849 - 1926

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Ellen Karolina Sofia Key (Swedish: [ˈkej]; 11 December 1849 – 25 April 1926) was a Swedish difference feminist writer on many subjects in the fields of family life, ethics and education and was an important figure in the Modern Breakthrough movement. She was an early advocate of a child-centered approach to education and parenting, and was also a suffragist. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ellen Key has received more than 173,007 page views. Her biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Ellen Key is the 1,113th most popular writer (down from 1,037th in 2019), the 162nd most popular biography from Sweden (down from 150th in 2019) and the 11th most popular Swedish Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 170k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 60.91

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 30

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.85

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.43

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Barnets århundrade
Child development
1909
The Education of the Child
1888
Rahel Varnhagen
Electronic book
1913
The woman movement
Feminism
1912
Liebe und Ethik
Love
1909
War, peace, and the future
War
1916

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Ellen Key ranks 1,113 out of 7,302. Before her are Claudius Aelianus, Tahar Ben Jelloun, Velimir Khlebnikov, Camilla Collett, Ethel Voynich, and Shi Nai'an. After her are Yakub Kolas, Henri Michaux, Bernardino de Sahagún, Zenodotus, Ernst Hanfstaengl, and P. L. Travers.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1849, Ellen Key ranks 17. Before her are Sergei Witte, Bertha Benz, Nogi Maresuke, John Ambrose Fleming, Blanche Monnier, and Eva Gonzalès. After her are Max Nordau, Alexander Kielland, Michael Ancher, Empress Shōken, Ferdinand Georg Frobenius, and Armand Peugeot. Among people deceased in 1926, Ellen Key ranks 30. Before her are Karl Harrer, Constantin Fehrenbach, Viktor Vasnetsov, Victor, Prince Napoléon, Mikao Usui, and William Bateson. After her are Friedrich von Wieser, John Louis Emil Dreyer, Knut Wicksell, Alphonse Borrelly, Émile Coué, and Ugyen Wangchuck.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Ellen Key ranks 162 out of 1,879. Before her are Tomas Lindahl (1938), Gösta Mittag-Leffler (1846), Carl Peter Thunberg (1743), Oscar Montelius (1843), Gustaf de Laval (1845), and Johan Gottlieb Gahn (1745). After her are John Bauer (1882), Margaret Leijonhufvud (1516), Eric X of Sweden (1180), Charles VII of Sweden (1130), Claes Oldenburg (1929), and Carl Linnaeus the Younger (1741).

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Among WRITERS In Sweden

Among writers born in Sweden, Ellen Key ranks 11. Before her are Pär Lagerkvist (1891), Henning Mankell (1948), Eyvind Johnson (1900), Verner von Heidenstam (1859), Harry Martinson (1904), and Stieg Larsson (1954). After her are Per Olov Enquist (1934), Maj Sjöwall (1935), Karin Boye (1900), Elsa Beskow (1874), Olaus Petri (1493), and Hjalmar Söderberg (1869).

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