WRITER

Hans Christian Andersen

1805 - 1875

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Hans Christian Andersen ( AN-dər-sən; Danish: [ˈhænˀs ˈkʰʁestjæn ˈɑnɐsn̩] ; 2 April 1805 – 4 August 1875) was a Danish author. Although a prolific writer of plays, travelogues, novels, and poems, he is best remembered for his literary fairy tales. Andersen's fairy tales, consisting of 156 stories across nine volumes, have been translated into more than 125 languages. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hans Christian Andersen has received more than 8,471,448 page views. His biography is available in 176 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 169 in 2019). Hans Christian Andersen is the 10th most popular writer (down from 7th in 2019), the most popular biography from Denmark and the most popular Danish Writer.

Hans Christian Andersen is most famous for his fairy tales.

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  • 8.5M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 89.00

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 176

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 16.98

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.67

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Hans Christian Andersen ranks 10 out of 7,302. Before him are Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Edgar Allan Poe, Fyodor Dostoevsky, J. R. R. Tolkien, Lord Byron, and Voltaire. After him are Leo Tolstoy, Victor Hugo, Sophocles, Franz Kafka, Miguel de Cervantes, and Jules Verne.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1805, Hans Christian Andersen ranks 1. After him are Joseph Smith, Giuseppe Mazzini, Alexis de Tocqueville, Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet, Princess Sophie of Bavaria, Ferdinand de Lesseps, William Rowan Hamilton, Fanny Mendelssohn, Louis Auguste Blanqui, Franz Xaver Winterhalter, and Maria Anna of Bavaria. Among people deceased in 1875, Hans Christian Andersen ranks 1. After him are Andrew Johnson, Georges Bizet, Ferdinand I of Austria, Jean-François Millet, Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, Charles Lyell, Éliphas Lévi, Isaac Singer, John Edward Gray, Heinrich Louis d'Arrest, and Moses Hess.

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In Denmark

Among people born in Denmark, Hans Christian Andersen ranks 1 out of 1,032. After him are Margrethe II of Denmark (1940), Hans Christian Ørsted (1777), Niels Bohr (1885), Søren Kierkegaard (1813), Haakon VII of Norway (1872), Ivar the Boneless (900), Cnut the Great (995), Asta Nielsen (1881), Frederick IX of Denmark (1899), Björn Ironside (800), and Karen Blixen (1885).

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Among WRITERS In Denmark

Among writers born in Denmark, Hans Christian Andersen ranks 1. After him are Karen Blixen (1885), Karl Adolph Gjellerup (1857), Sigrid Undset (1882), Johannes V. Jensen (1873), Henrik Pontoppidan (1857), Sven Hassel (1917), Georg Brandes (1842), Tove Ditlevsen (1917), N. F. S. Grundtvig (1783), Jens Peter Jacobsen (1847), and Jussi Adler-Olsen (1950).

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