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Henrik Gabriel Porthan

1739 - 1804

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Henrik Gabriel Porthan (8 November 1739 in Viitasaari – 16 March 1804 in Turku) was a professor and rector at the Royal Academy of Turku, Finland. He was a scholar sometimes known as The Father of Finnish History. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Henrik Gabriel Porthan has received more than 30,052 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Henrik Gabriel Porthan is the 410th most popular historian (down from 324th in 2019), the 271st most popular biography from Finland (down from 203rd in 2019) and the most popular Finnish Historian.

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  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.34

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.69

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Henrik Gabriel Porthan ranks 410 out of 561. Before him are Philip K. Hitti, Vladimir Ćorović, Florian Cajori, Chimalpahin, Daniel Pipes, and Carl Benjamin Boyer. After him are Ekvtime Takaishvili, Abd-al-Razzāq Samarqandī, Thomas Fuller, Boris Chicherin, Neagu Djuvara, and Heinrich Ewald.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1739, Henrik Gabriel Porthan ranks 22. Before him are Frei Galvão, Infanta Maria Doroteia of Portugal, Juan de Villanueva, John Robison, Johann Beckmann, and Prince Edward, Duke of York and Albany. After him are Sophronius of Vratsa, John Rutledge, George Clymer, William Bartram, Paine Wingate, and William Hewson. Among people deceased in 1804, Henrik Gabriel Porthan ranks 31. Before him are Philippe LeBon, Antonio José Cavanilles, Barthélemy Louis Joseph Schérer, Sultan bin Ahmad, Paul Kray, and Betje Wolff. After him are Philip Schuyler, Dru Drury, and George Walton.

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In Finland

Among people born in Finland, Henrik Gabriel Porthan ranks 271 out of 751. Before him are Paavo Väyrynen (1946), Eino Leino (1891), Kalle Anttila (1887), Heidi Hautala (1955), Ruben Lagus (1896), and Paavo Johansson (1895). After him are Verner Järvinen (1870), Jukka Nevalainen (1978), Reino Kuuskoski (1907), Heikki Liimatainen (1894), Martti Marttelin (1897), and Lauri Lehtinen (1908).

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Among HISTORIANS In Finland

Among historians born in Finland, Henrik Gabriel Porthan ranks 1. 

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