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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 195,440 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Jørgen Jørgensen is the 380th most popular explorer (down from 376th in 2019), the 455th most popular biography from Denmark and the 5th most popular Danish Explorer.

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  • 200k

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  • 48.72

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.74

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.45

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Jørgen Jørgensen ranks 380 out of 498. Before him are Matvei Gedenshtrom, Johannes Rebmann, Clements Markham, Henri Duveyrier, Gaspar de Portolá, and Carl Koldewey. After him are García López de Cárdenas, John Marshall, Benjamin Morrell, Vasily Chichagov, Alexander Fersman, and Lourenço de Almeida.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1780, Jørgen Jørgensen ranks 47. Before him are Henry Salt, Léon Jean Marie Dufour, Piet Retief, Elizabeth Fry, Antonie Brentano, and Matvei Gedenshtrom. After him are Francisco Xavier de Luna Pizarro, Yakov Sannikov, John Forsyth, Michele Tenore, Edward Hicks, and William Ellery Channing. Among people deceased in 1841, Jørgen Jørgensen ranks 38. Before him are Louis de Freycinet, Ignaz von Seyfried, Amelia of Nassau-Weilburg, Georg Anton Friedrich Ast, Jean Victoir Audouin, and David Don. After him are Luis Eduardo Pérez, David Wilkie, John Forsyth, Alexander Shishkov, Alexander Burnes, and Astley Cooper.

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In Denmark

Among people born in Denmark, Jørgen Jørgensen ranks 455 out of 1,032. Before him are Oswald of Worcester (1000), Ivan Nielsen (1956), Karl Aage Hansen (1921), Else Alfelt (1910), Johan Nicolai Madvig (1804), and Knud Kristensen (1880). After him are Pia Kjærsgaard (1947), Christian Albrecht Bluhme (1794), Jan Magnussen (1973), Ole Lund Kirkegaard (1940), Peter Georg Bang (1797), and Ole Ritter (1941).

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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). After him are Frans Blom (1893).

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