WRITER

Henrik Pontoppidan

1857 - 1943

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Henrik Pontoppidan (Danish: [ˈhenˀʁek pʰʌnˈtsʰʌpitæn]; 24 July 1857 – 21 August 1943) was a Danish realist writer who shared with Karl Gjellerup the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1917 for "his authentic descriptions of present-day life in Denmark." Pontoppidan's novels and short stories — informed with a desire for social progress but despairing, later in his life, of its realization — present an unusually comprehensive picture of his country and his epoch. As a writer he was an interesting figure, distancing himself both from the conservative environment in which he was brought up and from his socialist contemporaries and friends. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Henrik Pontoppidan has received more than 244,119 page views. His biography is available in 80 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 76 in 2019). Henrik Pontoppidan is the 275th most popular writer (down from 258th in 2019), the 30th most popular biography from Denmark (down from 23rd in 2019) and the 6th most popular Danish Writer.

Henrik Pontoppidan is most famous for his novel, "Niels Lyhne."

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Henrik Pontoppidan ranks 275 out of 7,302. Before him are Anna Komnene, Walt Whitman, Bartolomé de las Casas, Alcaeus of Mytilene, Jordanes, and Marguerite Duras. After him are Alphonse Daudet, Kenzaburō Ōe, Italo Calvino, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Shmuel Yosef Agnon, and Paul Heyse.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1857, Henrik Pontoppidan ranks 11. Before him are Edward Elgar, Clara Zetkin, Joseph Conrad, Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom, Karl Adolph Gjellerup, and Alfonso XII of Spain. After him are Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, William Howard Taft, Ruggero Leoncavallo, Alfred Binet, Theo van Gogh, and Eugen Bleuler. Among people deceased in 1943, Henrik Pontoppidan ranks 9. Before him are David Hilbert, Isoroku Yamamoto, Pieter Zeeman, Simone Weil, Karl Landsteiner, and Camille Claudel. After him are Boris III of Bulgaria, Theodor Eicke, Sophie Scholl, Henri La Fontaine, Yakov Dzhugashvili, and Chaim Soutine.

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In Denmark

Among people born in Denmark, Henrik Pontoppidan ranks 30 out of 1,032. Before him are Frederick VIII of Denmark (1843), Christian II of Denmark (1481), Alexandra of Denmark (1844), Johannes V. Jensen (1873), Queen Anne-Marie of Greece (1946), and Christian VIII of Denmark (1786). After him are Frederick V of Denmark (1723), Frederick VI of Denmark (1768), Lars von Trier (1956), Bertel Thorvaldsen (1770), Frederick III of Denmark (1609), and Valdemar II of Denmark (1170).

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Among WRITERS In Denmark

Among writers born in Denmark, Henrik Pontoppidan ranks 6. Before him are Hans Christian Andersen (1805), Karen Blixen (1885), Karl Adolph Gjellerup (1857), Sigrid Undset (1882), and Johannes V. Jensen (1873). After him are 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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