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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 7,787,761 page views. His biography is available in 169 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 167 in 2019). Hans Christian Andersen is the 7th most popular writer, 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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  • 169

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 17.39

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  • 4.30

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Hans Christian Andersen ranks 7 out of 5,755Before him are Homer, William Shakespeare, Dante Alighieri, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Fyodor Dostoevsky, and J. R. R. Tolkien. After him are Voltaire, Edgar Allan Poe, Sophocles, Leo Tolstoy, Franz Kafka, and Victor Hugo.

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Contemporaries

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

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In Denmark

Among people born in Denmark, Hans Christian Andersen ranks 1 out of 893After him are Hans Christian Ørsted (1777), Søren Kierkegaard (1813), Niels Bohr (1885), Margrethe II of Denmark (1940), Ivar the Boneless (900), Björn Ironside (800), Vitus Bering (1681), Ole Rømer (1644), Karl Adolph Gjellerup (1857), Cnut the Great (995), and Christian VII of Denmark (1749).

Among WRITERS In Denmark

Among writers born in Denmark, Hans Christian Andersen ranks 1After him are Karl Adolph Gjellerup (1857), Sigrid Undset (1882), Karen Blixen (1885), Henrik Pontoppidan (1857), Johannes V. Jensen (1873), Sven Hassel (1917), Jens Peter Jacobsen (1847), Georg Brandes (1842), N. F. S. Grundtvig (1783), Martin Andersen Nexø (1869), and Tove Ditlevsen (1917).