1857 - 1919
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 109,486 page views. His biography is available in 76 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 73 in 2019). Karl Adolph Gjellerup is the 165th most popular writer (up from 239th in 2019), the 10th most popular biography from Denmark (up from 22nd in 2019) and the 2nd 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, Karl Adolph Gjellerup ranks 165 out of 5,755. Before him are Fernando Pessoa, Menander, Novalis, Ahmad ibn Hanbal, Lucian, and Naguib Mahfouz. After him are Khalil Gibran, Ivan Turgenev, Anacreon, Frank Herbert, Janusz Korczak, and Stanisław Lem.
1888 - 1935
HPI: 73.69
Rank: 159
342 BC - 291 BC
HPI: 73.68
Rank: 160
1772 - 1801
HPI: 73.65
Rank: 161
780 - 855
HPI: 73.64
Rank: 162
120 - 200
HPI: 73.60
Rank: 163
1911 - 2006
HPI: 73.58
Rank: 164
1857 - 1919
HPI: 73.52
Rank: 165
1883 - 1931
HPI: 73.49
Rank: 166
1818 - 1883
HPI: 73.47
Rank: 167
570 BC - 485 BC
HPI: 73.47
Rank: 168
1920 - 1986
HPI: 73.46
Rank: 169
1878 - 1942
HPI: 73.46
Rank: 170
1921 - 2006
HPI: 73.42
Rank: 171
Among people born in 1857, Karl Adolph Gjellerup ranks 8. Before him are Ferdinand de Saussure, Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell, Heinrich Hertz, Clara Zetkin, Joseph Conrad, and Edward Elgar. After him are Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom, Henrik Pontoppidan, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, William Howard Taft, Alfonso XII of Spain, 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 Emil Fischer, Karl Liebknecht, Alfred Werner, Emiliano Zapata, Gojong of Korea, John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, and Andrew Carnegie.
1857 - 1913
HPI: 78.58
Rank: 2
1857 - 1941
HPI: 77.50
Rank: 3
1857 - 1894
HPI: 77.14
Rank: 4
1857 - 1933
HPI: 74.00
Rank: 5
1857 - 1924
HPI: 73.91
Rank: 6
1857 - 1934
HPI: 73.87
Rank: 7
1857 - 1919
HPI: 73.52
Rank: 8
1857 - 1944
HPI: 72.67
Rank: 9
1857 - 1943
HPI: 70.82
Rank: 10
1857 - 1935
HPI: 70.34
Rank: 11
1857 - 1930
HPI: 70.30
Rank: 12
1857 - 1885
HPI: 69.74
Rank: 13
1857 - 1911
HPI: 69.63
Rank: 14
1871 - 1919
HPI: 80.96
Rank: 1
1841 - 1919
HPI: 77.40
Rank: 2
1858 - 1919
HPI: 77.31
Rank: 3
1834 - 1919
HPI: 75.41
Rank: 4
1857 - 1919
HPI: 73.52
Rank: 5
1852 - 1919
HPI: 71.30
Rank: 6
1871 - 1919
HPI: 71.06
Rank: 7
1866 - 1919
HPI: 70.70
Rank: 8
1879 - 1919
HPI: 70.52
Rank: 9
1852 - 1919
HPI: 69.96
Rank: 10
1842 - 1919
HPI: 69.62
Rank: 11
1835 - 1919
HPI: 69.04
Rank: 12
Among people born in Denmark, Karl Adolph Gjellerup ranks 10 out of 893. Before him are Niels Bohr (1885), Margrethe II of Denmark (1940), Ivar the Boneless (900), Björn Ironside (800), Vitus Bering (1681), and Ole Rømer (1644). After him are Cnut the Great (995), Christian VII of Denmark (1749), Sigrid Undset (1882), Karen Blixen (1885), Lili Elbe (1882), and Margaret I of Denmark (1353).
1885 - 1962
HPI: 80.71
Rank: 4
1940 - Present
HPI: 79.66
Rank: 5
900 - 873
HPI: 78.69
Rank: 6
800 - 876
HPI: 76.83
Rank: 7
1681 - 1741
HPI: 73.92
Rank: 8
1644 - 1710
HPI: 73.77
Rank: 9
1857 - 1919
HPI: 73.52
Rank: 10
995 - 1035
HPI: 73.29
Rank: 11
1749 - 1808
HPI: 73.22
Rank: 12
1882 - 1949
HPI: 72.92
Rank: 13
1885 - 1962
HPI: 72.64
Rank: 14
1882 - 1931
HPI: 72.62
Rank: 15
1353 - 1412
HPI: 72.43
Rank: 16
Among writers born in Denmark, Karl Adolph Gjellerup ranks 2. Before him are Hans Christian Andersen (1805). After him are Sigrid Undset (1882), Karen Blixen (1885), Henrik Pontoppidan (1857), Johannes V. Jensen (1873), Sven Hassel (1917), Jens Peter Jacobsen (1847), Georg Brandes (1842), N. F. S. Grundtvig (1783), Martin Andersen Nexø (1869), and Tove Ditlevsen (1917).
1805 - 1875
HPI: 87.84
Rank: 1
1857 - 1919
HPI: 73.52
Rank: 2
1882 - 1949
HPI: 72.92
Rank: 3
1885 - 1962
HPI: 72.64
Rank: 4
1857 - 1943
HPI: 70.82
Rank: 5
1873 - 1950
HPI: 68.83
Rank: 6
1917 - 2012
HPI: 64.23
Rank: 7
1847 - 1885
HPI: 63.01
Rank: 8
1842 - 1927
HPI: 61.85
Rank: 9
1783 - 1872
HPI: 60.67
Rank: 10
1869 - 1954
HPI: 60.19
Rank: 11
1917 - 1976
HPI: 59.68
Rank: 12