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Mikael Agricola

1510 - 1557

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Mikael Agricola (Finnish: [ˈmikɑel ˈɑɡrikolɑ] ; c. 1510 – 9 April 1557) was a Finnish Lutheran clergyman who became the de facto founder of literary Finnish and a prominent proponent of the Protestant Reformation in Sweden, including Finland, which was a Swedish territory at the time. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mikael Agricola has received more than 232,846 page views. His biography is available in 50 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 49 in 2019). Mikael Agricola is the 779th most popular writer (down from 747th in 2019), the 26th most popular biography from Finland (down from 18th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Finnish Writer.

Mikael Agricola is most famous for his translation of the Bible into Finnish.

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  • 230k

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  • 62.79

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 50

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.15

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.49

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Mikael Agricola ranks 779 out of 5,755. Before him are Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle, Sherwood Anderson, Philippe Ariès, Italo Svevo, Nestor the Chronicler, and Pavel Jozef Šafárik. After him are John Jacob Astor IV, Bettina von Arnim, Artemidorus, John Fante, Wilhelm Hauff, and Peter Weiss.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1510, Mikael Agricola ranks 7. Before him are Ambroise Paré, Alessandro de' Medici, Duke of Florence, Francis Borgia, 4th Duke of Gandía, Renée of France, Aloysius Lilius, and Jacopo Bassano. After him are Gonzalo Pizarro, Gracia Mendes Nasi, François Clouet, Elena Glinskaya, Túpac Huallpa, and Francisco Vázquez de Coronado. Among people deceased in 1557, Mikael Agricola ranks 8. Before him are Anne of Cleves, John III of Portugal, Pontormo, Niccolò Fontana Tartaglia, Bona Sforza, and Olaus Magnus. After him are Sebastian Cabot, Emperor Go-Nara, Lautaro, Ferrante Gonzaga, Albert Alcibiades, Margrave of Brandenburg-Kulmbach, and Mohammed al-Shaykh.

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In Finland

Among people born in Finland, Mikael Agricola ranks 26 out of 642. Before him are Ragnar Granit (1900), Helene Schjerfbeck (1862), Pehr Evind Svinhufvud (1861), Aki Kaurismäki (1957), Johan Gadolin (1760), and Otto Wille Kuusinen (1881). After him are Akseli Gallen-Kallela (1865), Vissarion Belinsky (1811), Mika Häkkinen (1968), Linus Torvalds (1969), Mauno Koivisto (1923), and Johan Ludvig Runeberg (1804).

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Among WRITERS In Finland

Among writers born in Finland, Mikael Agricola ranks 5. Before him are Tove Jansson (1914), Mika Waltari (1908), Frans Eemil Sillanpää (1888), and Arto Paasilinna (1942). After him are Johan Ludvig Runeberg (1804), Aleksis Kivi (1834), Zachris Topelius (1818), Väinö Linna (1920), Eino Leino (1878), Minna Canth (1844), and Juhani Aho (1861).

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