WRITER

Gerbrand Bredero

1585 - 1618

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Gerbrand Adriaenszoon Bredero (16 March 1585 – 23 August 1618) was a Dutch poet and playwright in the period known as the Dutch Golden Age. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gerbrand Bredero has received more than 36,349 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Gerbrand Bredero is the 4,419th most popular writer (down from 4,165th in 2019), the 676th most popular biography from Netherlands (down from 607th in 2019) and the 35th most popular Dutch Writer.

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  • 2.98

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Gerbrand Bredero ranks 4,419 out of 7,302Before him are Greg Bear, Janwillem van de Wetering, Raghunath Murmu, Mykola Kulish, Sara Lidman, and Yuri Vizbor. After him are Eggert Ólafsson, Stanislas Julien, Anatoly Kuznetsov, Adrienne Clarkson, Félix María de Samaniego, and Norman Vincent Peale.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1585, Gerbrand Bredero ranks 24Before him are Pedro Teixeira, Domenico II Contarini, Claude Favre de Vaugelas, Caspar Bartholin the Elder, Francesco Cornaro, and Squanto. After him is Sisto Badalocchio. Among people deceased in 1618, Gerbrand Bredero ranks 16Before him are Giovanni Bembo, Heo Gyun, Margherita Gonzaga, Duchess of Ferrara, John George I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau, Powhatan, and Nicolò Donato.

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In Netherlands

Among people born in Netherlands, Gerbrand Bredero ranks 676 out of 1,646Before him are Bep Voskuijl (1919), Jan Wils (1891), Peter Aerts (1970), Jacob van Zuylen van Nijevelt (1816), Jaap Bakema (1914), and Janwillem van de Wetering (1931). After him are Hans van Manen (1932), Wim Jonk (1966), Simon Tahamata (1956), Richard Krajicek (1971), Monique van de Ven (1952), and Nicolaas Pieneman (1809).

Among WRITERS In Netherlands

Among writers born in Netherlands, Gerbrand Bredero ranks 35Before him are Bertus Aafjes (1914), Gysbert Japiks (1603), Hendrik Willem van Loon (1882), Jan Wolkers (1925), Simon Vestdijk (1898), and Janwillem van de Wetering (1931). After him are Mieke Bal (1946), Anna Enquist (1945), Betje Wolff (1738), Herman Heijermans (1864), Willem Bilderdijk (1756), and Nicolaas Beets (1814).