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Herman Bang

1857 - 1912

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Herman Joachim Bang (20 April 1857 – 29 January 1912) was a Danish journalist and author, one of the men of the Modern Breakthrough. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Herman Bang has received more than 85,459 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia. Herman Bang is the 2,047th most popular writer (up from 2,130th in 2019), the 213th most popular biography from Denmark (down from 208th in 2019) and the 18th most popular Danish Writer.

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  • 54.92

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  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.19

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  • 2.50

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Herman Bang ranks 2,047 out of 5,755Before him are Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky, Pir Sultan Abdal, Paul Adam, Fujiwara no Teika, Joachim Neander, and Fred Vargas. After him are Richard Adams, Taliesin, Abdul-Qādir Bedil, Friedrich Rückert, William Moulton Marston, and Pavel Kohout.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1857, Herman Bang ranks 57Before him are Le Pétomane, Fergus Suter, Alfred Loisy, Princess Marie of Waldeck and Pyrmont, Jacques de Morgan, and Juan Vicente Gómez. After him are Gotō Shinpei, Oskar von Hutier, A. E. Waite, Émile Cohl, Hermann Sudermann, and Abdurreshid Ibrahim. Among people deceased in 1912, Herman Bang ranks 49Before him are Duchess Amalie in Bavaria, Eduard Strasburger, Duchess Marie Gabrielle in Bavaria, Infanta María Teresa of Spain, Georg Heym, and Julius Maggi. After him are Archibald Gracie IV, Gustave de Molinari, Ernest Duchesne, Giovanni Pascoli, James S. Sherman, and Jacques Futrelle.

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In Denmark

Among people born in Denmark, Herman Bang ranks 213 out of 893Before him are Jens Juel (1745), Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller (1913), Helle Thorning-Schmidt (1966), Birgitte, Duchess of Gloucester (1946), King Diamond (1956), and Lars Løkke Rasmussen (1964). After him are Christian Bohr (1855), Gunnhild, Mother of Kings (910), Christian Mortensen (1882), Prince Frederick William of Hesse-Kassel (1820), Christian August II, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg (1798), and Marie Krøyer (1867).

Among WRITERS In Denmark

Among writers born in Denmark, Herman Bang ranks 18Before him are Tove Ditlevsen (1917), Jussi Adler-Olsen (1950), Aksel Sandemose (1899), Ole Nydahl (1941), Adam Oehlenschläger (1779), and Kaj Munk (1898). After him are Leonora Christina Ulfeldt (1621), Jens Fink-Jensen (1956), Inger Christensen (1935), Peter Høeg (1957), Jeppe Aakjær (1866), and Jens Baggesen (1764).