WRITER

Elvira Madigan

1867 - 1889

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Hedvig Antoinette Isabella Eleonore Jensen (December 4, 1867 – July 19, 1889), better known by her stage name Elvira Madigan, was a circus performer who performed as a slack rope dancer, artistic rider, juggler and dancer. She is best known today for her romantic relationship with the Swedish nobleman and cavalry officer Sixten Sparre. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Elvira Madigan has received more than 299,420 page views. Her biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Elvira Madigan is the 1,801st most popular writer (down from 1,778th in 2019), the 1,909th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,858th in 2019) and the 118th most popular German Writer.

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  • 300k

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  • 62.93

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.73

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.55

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Elvira Madigan ranks 1,801 out of 7,302. Before her are Betty Friedan, Frans Sammut, Yevgenia Ginzburg, Desanka Maksimović, Cangrande I della Scala, and Lilya Brik. After her are Albert Gleizes, Sanai, Bartolomeo Platina, Alejandra Pizarnik, Philemon, and Mir Taqi Mir.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1867, Elvira Madigan ranks 57. Before her are Mikhail Eisenstein, Charles Fabry, Marcel Schwob, Carl Laemmle, Hiranuma Kiichirō, and Adam Stefan Sapieha. After her are Masaoka Shiki, Jeanne Lanvin, Henri Gouraud, Arthur Rackham, Sundance Kid, and Julien Benda. Among people deceased in 1889, Elvira Madigan ranks 30. Before her are John Ericsson, Ignacy Domeyko, Jules Dupré, Gaston Planté, Şevkefza Kadın, and Princess Augusta of Hesse-Kassel. After her are Viktor Bunyakovsky, Ion Creangă, Princess Eugénie of Sweden, Franciscus Donders, Adolf von Henselt, and Ybyrai Altynsarin.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Elvira Madigan ranks 1,909 out of 7,253. Before her are Anthony Ulrich, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1633), Friedrich Krupp (1787), Willi Hennig (1913), Ernst Engel (1821), Duchess Caroline Mariane of Mecklenburg (1821), and Guido Buchwald (1961). After her are Louise of Mecklenburg-Güstrow (1667), Hermann-Bernhard Ramcke (1889), Karl Wilhelm Feuerbach (1800), Ulrich von Hassell (1881), Frederick VII, Margrave of Baden-Durlach (1647), and Simon Mayr (1763).

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Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Elvira Madigan ranks 118. Before her are Martin Walser (1927), Basil Valentine (1394), Hans F. K. Günther (1891), Friedrich Melchior, Baron von Grimm (1723), Friedrich Rückert (1788), and Anthony Ulrich, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1633). After her are Theodor Nöldeke (1836), Katia Mann (1883), Augustus the Younger, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1579), Paul Gerhardt (1607), Annette von Droste-Hülshoff (1797), and Handrij Zejler (1804).

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