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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, "muck-raking" 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 1,581,473 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia. Jacob Riis is the 65th most popular journalist (down from 56th in 2019), the 400th most popular biography from Denmark (down from 356th in 2019) and the most popular Danish Journalist.

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Among JOURNALISTS

Among journalists, Jacob Riis ranks 65 out of 196. Before him are Bill Brandt, Plínio Salgado, Selma Rıza, Veronica Guerin, Ernst Haas, and Vladimir Solovyov. After him are Marie Colvin, Maurizio Costanzo, Piers Morgan, Marina Ovsyannikova, Kanno Sugako, and Don McCullin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1849, Jacob Riis ranks 75. Before him are Carl Fredrik Hill, Józef Chełmoński, William Knox D'Arcy, Hugo von Seeliger, Oscar Hertwig, and Christian Rohlfs. After him are Pedro Montt, Richard Lydekker, Prosper-René Blondlot, Henry Clay Frick, John Hartley, and Panas Myrny. Among people deceased in 1914, Jacob Riis ranks 102. Before him are Richard Heuberger, Wilhelm Lexis, Koos de la Rey, Ayub Khan, Carl Theodore Liebermann, and Peyo Yavorov. After him are Carl Chun, Benedict Menni, Paul Mauser, Antun Gustav Matoš, Paul Déroulède, and Géza Fejérváry.

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In Denmark

Among people born in Denmark, Jacob Riis ranks 400 out of 1,032. Before him are Kim Vilfort (1962), Urban Gad (1879), Kristian Zahrtmann (1843), Sofie Gråbøl (1968), Karin Michaëlis (1872), and Wilhelm Bendz (1804). After him are Georg Mohr (1640), Benjamin Christensen (1879), Johanne Luise Heiberg (1812), Jens Jacob Asmussen Worsaae (1821), Karl Aage Præst (1922), and Princess Dorothea of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck (1685).

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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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