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Knud Knudsen

1812 - 1895

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Knud Knudsen (January 6, 1812 – March 30, 1895) was a Norwegian educator, author, linguist and philologist, known as "The Father of Bokmål". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Knud Knudsen has received more than 6,255 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Knud Knudsen is the 4,117th most popular writer, the 247th most popular biography from Norway and the 46th most popular Norwegian Writer.

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  • 15

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  • 1.48

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Knud Knudsen ranks 4,117 out of 5,755Before him are Lydia Chukovskaya, Jan Myrdal, Georg Sauerwein, Abel Bonnard, Kostandin Kristoforidhi, and Juan José Arreola. After him are Corín Tellado, Rosemary Sutcliff, Vera Inber, Hector Bianciotti, Fernando Vallejo, and Yan Lianke.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1812, Knud Knudsen ranks 54Before him are George Allman, Izmail Sreznevsky, Juraj Dobrila, Alexander H. Stephens, Walthère Frère-Orban, and Julius Rietz. After him are Carl Christian Hall, Johanne Luise Heiberg, Charles Duclerc, Buenaventura Báez, Carl Christoffer Georg Andræ, and Samo Chalupka. Among people deceased in 1895, Knud Knudsen ranks 64Before him are Petko Slaveykov, Jorge Isaacs, Gustav Spörer, Karl Schenk, Louise Otto-Peters, and Kostandin Kristoforidhi. After him are Thomas Francis Wade, Manuel Ruiz Zorrilla, Luigi Giuseppe Lasagna, George Newbold Lawrence, Zygmunt Szczęsny Feliński, and Friedrich Tietjen.

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In Norway

Among people born in Norway, Knud Knudsen ranks 247 out of 927Before him are Åge Hareide (1953), Laila Schou Nilsen (1919), Kirsti Sparboe (1946), Hallgeir Brenden (1929), Petter Solberg (1974), and Oddbjørn Hagen (1908). After him are Sigbjørn Obstfelder (1866), Arne Brustad (1912), Nils Eriksen (1911), Harriet Bosse (1878), Kristofer Hivju (1978), and Knut Nystedt (1915).

Among WRITERS In Norway

Among writers born in Norway, Knud Knudsen ranks 46Before him are Dorothe Engelbretsdatter (1634), Anne-Cath. Vestly (1920), Johan Turi (1854), Þjóðólfr of Hvinir (900), Johan Bojer (1872), and Karl Ove Knausgård (1968). After him are Sigbjørn Obstfelder (1866), Olav Duun (1876), Erlend Loe (1969), Jens Bjørneboe (1920), Roy Jacobsen (1954), and Hans Nielsen Hauge (1771).