WRITER

Ivar Aasen

1813 - 1896

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Ivar Andreas Aasen (Norwegian pronunciation: [ˈîːvɑr ˈòːsn̩]; 5 August 1813 – 23 September 1896) was a Norwegian philologist, lexicographer, playwright, and poet. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ivar Aasen has received more than 141,027 page views. His biography is available in 54 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 51 in 2019). Ivar Aasen is the 416th most popular writer (up from 605th in 2019), the 26th most popular biography from Norway (up from 32nd in 2019) and the 6th most popular Norwegian Writer.

Ivar Aasen was a Norwegian philologist and linguist who is most famous for his work on the Norwegian language. He was the creator of the written form of the Norwegian language, Nynorsk.

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  • 54

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 17.58

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  • 2.33

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Ivar Aasen ranks 416 out of 7,302. Before him are Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux, Alfred de Musset, Qu Yuan, Sylvia Plath, Thomas Bernhard, and Patrick Modiano. After him are Savitribai Phule, Heinrich Mann, John Keats, Arion, Sholem Aleichem, and Lactantius.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1813, Ivar Aasen ranks 6. Before him are Giuseppe Verdi, Richard Wagner, Søren Kierkegaard, David Livingstone, and Claude Bernard. After him are Petar II Petrović-Njegoš, Georg Büchner, Henry Bessemer, Charles-Valentin Alkan, John Snow, and Franz Miklosich. Among people deceased in 1896, Ivar Aasen ranks 8. Before him are Clara Schumann, Anton Bruckner, Paul Verlaine, Archduke Karl Ludwig of Austria, August Kekulé, and William Morris. After him are Hippolyte Fizeau, Otto Lilienthal, José Rizal, John Everett Millais, Naser al-Din Shah Qajar, and Harriet Beecher Stowe.

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In Norway

Among people born in Norway, Ivar Aasen ranks 26 out of 1,039. Before him are Trygve Lie (1896), Olaf II of Norway (993), Jo Nesbø (1960), Jens Stoltenberg (1959), Vidkun Quisling (1887), and Olaf Tryggvason (963). After him are Ingólfr Arnarson (850), Eric Bloodaxe (885), Ludvig Holberg (1684), Ragnar Frisch (1895), Jostein Gaarder (1952), and Johan Galtung (1930).

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Among WRITERS In Norway

Among writers born in Norway, Ivar Aasen ranks 6. Before him are Henrik Ibsen (1828), Knut Hamsun (1859), Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson (1832), Jon Fosse (1959), and Jo Nesbø (1960). After him are Ludvig Holberg (1684), Jostein Gaarder (1952), Camilla Collett (1813), Arne Garborg (1851), Alexander Kielland (1849), and Peter Christen Asbjørnsen (1812).

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