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Jacob Riis

1849 - 1914

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Jacob August Riis ( REESS; May 3, 1849 – May 26, 1914) was a Danish-American social reformer, "muckraking" journalist, and social documentary photographer. He contributed significantly to the cause of urban reform in the United States of America at the turn of the twentieth century. He is known for using his photographic and journalistic talents to help the impoverished in New York City; those impoverished New Yorkers were the subject of most of his prolific writings and photography. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jacob Riis has received more than 1,527,223 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Jacob Riis is the 56th most popular journalist (up from 60th in 2019), the 358th most popular biography from Denmark (up from 374th in 2019) and the most popular Danish Journalist.

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  • 28

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.54

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.93

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among JOURNALISTS

Among journalists, Jacob Riis ranks 56 out of 127. Before him are Daphne Caruana Galizia, Bill Brandt, Kazimierz Nowak, Mauricio Funes, Yuri Bezmenov, and Edward R. Murrow. After him are Francesco Alberoni, Sue Gardner, Plínio Salgado, Norbert Haug, Ernst Haas, and Selma Rıza.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1849, Jacob Riis ranks 66. Before him are Emma Lazarus, Oscar Hertwig, Albert Heim, Jérôme Eugène Coggia, Charles F. Brush, and Richard Lydekker. After him are Gerhard Munthe, Princess Marie Alexandrine of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, George Washington Williams, Giovanni Passannante, Alfred Kleiner, and Józef Chełmoński. Among people deceased in 1914, Jacob Riis ranks 80. Before him are Félix Bracquemond, Edward Robert Hughes, Altaf Hussain Hali, Adlai Stevenson I, Ayub Khan, and Adolf Martens. After him are Hubertine Auclert, Antun Gustav Matoš, Domenico Ferrata, Frederick Lorz, Benedict Menni, and Robert Hugh Benson.

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In Denmark

Among people born in Denmark, Jacob Riis ranks 358 out of 893. Before him are Thomas Kingo (1634), Christina of Denmark, Queen of Sweden (1120), Martin Braithwaite (1991), Richard Martin West (1941), Henning Larsen (1925), and Johan Ludvig Heiberg (1791). After him are Ferdinand, Hereditary Prince of Denmark (1792), Robert Jacobsen (1912), Princess Juliane Sophie of Denmark (1788), Inge Sørensen (1924), Nikolaj Lie Kaas (1973), and Vilhelm Buhl (1881).

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Among JOURNALISTS In Denmark

Among journalists born in Denmark, Jacob Riis ranks 1. After him are Lise Rønne (1978).

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