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Louis Hennepin

1626 - 1704

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Louis Hennepin, OFM (born Antoine Hennepin; French pronunciation: [lwi ɛnpɛ̃]; 12 May 1626 – 5 December 1704) was a Belgian Catholic priest and missionary best known for his activities in North America. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Louis Hennepin has received more than 227,261 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Louis Hennepin is the 442nd most popular explorer (down from 423rd in 2019), the 706th most popular biography from Belgium (down from 674th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Belgian Explorer.

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  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.91

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.80

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Louis Hennepin ranks 442 out of 498. Before him are Mikhail Somov, Sir John Barrow, 1st Baronet, Aeneas Mackintosh, John Gardner Wilkinson, Herbert Ponting, and Karl Mauch. After him are Artur Chilingarov, Matthew Henson, Ernest Henry Wilson, Frank Wild, Gombojab Tsybikov, and Johann Ludwig Krapf.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1626, Louis Hennepin ranks 19. Before him are Andrea Guarneri, Jan van Kessel the Elder, Pietro Mengoli, Countess Palatine Eleonora Catherine of Zweibrücken, Simon Ushakov, and Ole Borch.  Among people deceased in 1704, Louis Hennepin ranks 22. Before him are Menno van Coehoorn, Ulrik Frederik Gyldenløve, Rudolph Augustus, Duke of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel, Lorenzo Gafà, Louis Bourdaloue, and John Adolphus, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Plön.

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In Belgium

Among people born in Belgium, Louis Hennepin ranks 706 out of 1,190. Before him are Jacques Swaters (1926), Willy Planckaert (1944), Gunter Pauli (1956), Jan van Beers (1821), Jacques Beurlet (1944), and Jean-Philippe Toussaint (1957). After him are Henry Spira (1927), Hadja Lahbib (1970), Joseph De Combe (1901), Wout van Aert (1994), Jean Claessens (1908), and René Desaeyere (1947).

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Among EXPLORERS In Belgium

Among explorers born in Belgium, Louis Hennepin ranks 3. Before him are Adrien de Gerlache (1866), and James Weddell (1787).

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