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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 34,064 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Gerbrand Bredero is the 4,178th most popular writer (down from 3,869th in 2019), the 609th most popular biography from Netherlands (down from 553rd in 2019) and the 34th most popular Dutch Writer.

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  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.26

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  • 3.07

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Gerbrand Bredero ranks 4,178 out of 5,755Before him are Nicholas Pileggi, Konstantin Aksakov, Ludvík Vaculík, Graham Hancock, Maria Edgeworth, and Beatriz Galindo. After him are Patrick Poivre d'Arvor, Seán O'Casey, Andrew Marvell, Jørgen-Frantz Jacobsen, Źmitrok Biadula, and Fadwa Tuqan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1585, Gerbrand Bredero ranks 22Before him are Caspar Bartholin the Elder, Pedro Teixeira, Claude Favre de Vaugelas, Johann Baptist Cysat, Frederick I, Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg, and Domenico II Contarini.  Among people deceased in 1618, Gerbrand Bredero ranks 14Before him are Marie of the Incarnation, Margherita Gonzaga, Duchess of Ferrara, Giovanni Bembo, 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 609 out of 1,427Before him are Volcher Coiter (1534), Hendrik van Gent (1900), Arie den Hartog (1941), Michel de Klerk (1884), Jan van Bijlert (1597), and Wilhelmina Cooper (1939). After him are David Alexandre Winter (1943), Lenny Kuhr (1950), Joep Lange (1954), Jan de Bray (1627), Michaël Dudok de Wit (1953), and Hendrik Voogd (1768).

Among WRITERS In Netherlands

Among writers born in Netherlands, Gerbrand Bredero ranks 34Before him are Jan Wolkers (1925), Bertus Aafjes (1914), Simon Vestdijk (1898), Gysbert Japiks (1603), Janwillem van de Wetering (1931), and Fedde Schurer (1898). After him are Herman Heijermans (1864), Aagje Deken (1741), Pieter Jelles Troelstra (1860), Nicolaas Beets (1814), Thea Beckman (1923), and Jan de Hartog (1914).