WRITER

Jens Baggesen

1764 - 1826

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Jens Immanuel Baggesen (15 February 1764 – 3 October 1826) was a major Danish poet, librettist, critic, and comic writer. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jens Baggesen has received more than 33,017 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Jens Baggesen is the 3,029th most popular writer (down from 2,887th in 2019), the 309th most popular biography from Denmark (down from 285th in 2019) and the 27th most popular Danish Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Jens Baggesen ranks 3,029 out of 7,302Before him are Hans Erich Nossack, Michael Jackson, Andrei Amalrik, Yury Olesha, Thor Vilhjálmsson, and Donna Tartt. After him are Nathan Birnbaum, Sumitranandan Pant, Prince Henri of Orléans, Henri Meilhac, Miodrag Bulatović, and Alan Sillitoe.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1764, Jens Baggesen ranks 19Before him are Barbara von Krüdener, Sophie de Condorcet, Alexander Mackenzie, Carlo Andrea Pozzo di Borgo, Gustav Hugo, and Dorothea von Schlegel. After him are Charles Percier, Marie-Joseph Chénier, Valentino Fioravanti, Andrés Manuel del Río, Sidney Smith, and János Bihari. Among people deceased in 1826, Jens Baggesen ranks 38Before him are Johann Peter Hebel, Georg Franz Hoffmann, Claire Lacombe, Pavel Pestel, Anton Walter, and Christian Kramp. After him are J. F. Oberlin, Kondraty Ryleyev, Alexander Gordon Laing, Johann Heinrich Voss, Stanisław Staszic, and Germanos III of Old Patras.

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In Denmark

Among people born in Denmark, Jens Baggesen ranks 309 out of 1,032Before him are Kim Bodnia (1965), Ingrid Vang Nyman (1916), Princess Dagmar of Denmark (1890), Viggo Jensen (1874), Ludvig Mylius-Erichsen (1872), and Princess Karoline Mathilde of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg (1860). After him are Kim Larsen (1945), Bjarne Riis (1964), Jens Fink-Jensen (1956), Bodil Ipsen (1889), Ove Høegh-Guldberg (1731), and J. C. Jacobsen (1811).

Among WRITERS In Denmark

Among writers born in Denmark, Jens Baggesen ranks 27Before him are Inger Christensen (1935), Jeppe Aakjær (1866), Holger Drachmann (1846), Kjeld Abell (1901), Peter Høeg (1957), and Ludvig Mylius-Erichsen (1872). After him are Jens Fink-Jensen (1956), Cecil Bødker (1927), Johannes Ewald (1743), Thorkild Hansen (1927), Johannes Jørgensen (1866), and Bernhard Severin Ingemann (1789).