WRITER

Karl Adolph Gjellerup

1857 - 1919

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Karl Adolph Gjellerup (Danish: [ˈkʰɑˀl ˈɛːˌtʌlˀf ˈkelˀəʁɔp]; 2 June 1857 – 11 October 1919) was a Danish poet and novelist who together with his compatriot Henrik Pontoppidan won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1917. He is associated with the Modern Breakthrough period of Scandinavian literature. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Karl Adolph Gjellerup has received more than 117,357 page views. His biography is available in 80 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 76 in 2019). Karl Adolph Gjellerup is the 200th most popular writer (down from 165th in 2019), the 19th most popular biography from Denmark (down from 10th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Danish Writer.

Gjellerup was a Danish poet and novelist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1917.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Karl Adolph Gjellerup ranks 200 out of 7,302. Before him are Friedrich Hölderlin, Juvenal, Luís de Camões, Roald Dahl, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, and William Blake. After him are Lou Andreas-Salomé, Khalil Gibran, Anna Wintour, Mansur Al-Hallaj, Tristan Tzara, and Ray Bradbury.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1857, Karl Adolph Gjellerup ranks 9. Before him are Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell, Heinrich Hertz, Edward Elgar, Clara Zetkin, Joseph Conrad, and Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom. After him are Alfonso XII of Spain, Henrik Pontoppidan, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, William Howard Taft, Ruggero Leoncavallo, and Alfred Binet. Among people deceased in 1919, Karl Adolph Gjellerup ranks 5. Before him are Rosa Luxemburg, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Theodore Roosevelt, and Ernst Haeckel. After him are Gojong of Korea, Emil Fischer, Karl Liebknecht, Emiliano Zapata, Ruggero Leoncavallo, Carl Larsson, and John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh.

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In Denmark

Among people born in Denmark, Karl Adolph Gjellerup ranks 19 out of 1,032. Before him are Vitus Bering (1681), Gorm the Old (900), Christian VII of Denmark (1749), Margaret I of Denmark (1353), George I of Greece (1845), and Ole Rømer (1644). After him are Christian IV of Denmark (1577), Sweyn Forkbeard (960), Christian X of Denmark (1870), Sigrid Undset (1882), Frederick VIII of Denmark (1843), and Christian II of Denmark (1481).

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Among WRITERS In Denmark

Among writers born in Denmark, Karl Adolph Gjellerup ranks 3. Before him are Hans Christian Andersen (1805), and Karen Blixen (1885). After him are Sigrid Undset (1882), Johannes V. Jensen (1873), Henrik Pontoppidan (1857), Sven Hassel (1917), Georg Brandes (1842), Tove Ditlevsen (1917), N. F. S. Grundtvig (1783), Jens Peter Jacobsen (1847), and Jussi Adler-Olsen (1950).

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