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Jørgen Jørgensen

1780 - 1841

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Jørgen Jørgensen (name of birth: Jürgensen, and changed to Jorgenson from 1817) (29 March 1780 – 20 January 1841) was a Danish adventurer during the Age of Revolution. During the action of 2 March 1808, his ship was captured by the British. In 1809 he sailed to Iceland, declared the country independent from Denmark–Norway and pronounced himself its ruler. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jørgen Jørgensen has received more than 183,940 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Jørgen Jørgensen is the 377th most popular explorer (down from 360th in 2019), the 457th most popular biography from Denmark (down from 448th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Danish Explorer.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.59

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.37

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Jørgen Jørgensen ranks 377 out of 405. Before him are Louis de Freycinet, Luke Foxe, Alfred Maudslay, Henry Kellett, Krystyna Chojnowska-Liskiewicz, and John Marshall. After him are Pyotr Anjou, George Nares, Jacques Labillardière, John Colter, Jean Louis Marie Poiret, and Gennady Nevelskoy.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1780, Jørgen Jørgensen ranks 47. Before him are Johann Friedrich Adam, Francisco Xavier de Luna Pizarro, Henry Salt, Edward Hicks, Yakov Sannikov, and Léon Jean Marie Dufour. After him are William Ellery Channing, John Forsyth, Robert Smirke, Richard Rush, Thomas Chalmers, and William J. Duane. Among people deceased in 1841, Jørgen Jørgensen ranks 38. Before him are Amelia of Nassau-Weilburg, Peter Andreas Heiberg, Luis Eduardo Pérez, David Wilkie, Louis de Freycinet, and David Don. After him are Astley Cooper, Princess Amalie of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, John Forsyth, and Francis Leggatt Chantrey.

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In Denmark

Among people born in Denmark, Jørgen Jørgensen ranks 457 out of 893. Before him are Thomas Gravesen (1976), Mogens Lykketoft (1946), Thomas Madsen-Mygdal (1876), Ole Ernst (1940), Jan Magnussen (1973), and Knud Kristensen (1880). After him are Jørgen Pedersen Gram (1850), Birgit Brüel (1927), Lone Scherfig (1959), Ole Madsen (1934), Johannes Schmidt (1877), and Gustav Winckler (1925).

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Among EXPLORERS In Denmark

Among explorers born in Denmark, Jørgen Jørgensen ranks 5. Before him are Vitus Bering (1681), Johann Karl Ehrenfried Kegel (1784), Peter Freuchen (1886), and Lauge Koch (1892).

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