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Minna Canth

1844 - 1897

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Minna Canth (Finnish pronunciation: [minːɑ kɑnt]; born Ulrika Wilhelmina Johnson; 19 March 1844 – 12 May 1897) was a Finnish writer and social activist. Canth began to write while managing her family draper's shop and living as a widow raising seven children. Her work addresses issues of women's rights, particularly in the context of a prevailing culture she considered antithetical to permitting expression and realization of women's aspirations. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Minna Canth has received more than 267,848 page views. Her biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). Minna Canth is the 1,938th most popular writer (up from 2,031st in 2019), the 72nd most popular biography from Finland (down from 71st in 2019) and the 11th most popular Finnish Writer.

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  • 270k

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  • 55.41

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  • 36

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.86

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.41

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Minna Canth ranks 1,938 out of 5,755Before her are Kate Millett, Adnan Oktar, Fred Uhlman, Francis Jammes, Bharavi, and Ernst Robert Curtius. After her are Pierre Alexis Ponson du Terrail, Jaan Kaplinski, Tony Robbins, Ramón Sampedro, Anton Hansen Tammsaare, and Jean d'Ormesson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1844, Minna Canth ranks 38Before her are Prince Ferdinand, Duke of Alençon, Henry J. Heinz, Adolf Engler, Mihály Munkácsy, Eduard Strasburger, and Louis Riel. After her are Thomas Eakins, Joshua Slocum, Prince Philipp of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Victorine Meurent, Vasily Polenov, and George W. De Long. Among people deceased in 1897, Minna Canth ranks 28Before her are Giuseppina Strepponi, Antoine Thomson d'Abbadie, Galileo Ferraris, Alexei Savrasov, Viktor Meyer, and Khurshidbanu Natavan. After her are Stanislas de Guaita, George Pullman, Fritz Müller, Antonio Bazzini, Henry George, and Léon Boëllmann.

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In Finland

Among people born in Finland, Minna Canth ranks 72 out of 642Before her are Ilmari Juutilainen (1914), Eino Leino (1878), Peter Forsskål (1732), Clas Thunberg (1893), Leif Segerstam (1944), and Paavo Lipponen (1941). After her are Edvard Westermarck (1862), Jaakko Hintikka (1929), Matti Järvinen (1909), Henri Toivonen (1956), Juhani Aho (1861), and Jarno Saarinen (1945).

Among WRITERS In Finland

Among writers born in Finland, Minna Canth ranks 11Before her are Mikael Agricola (1510), Johan Ludvig Runeberg (1804), Aleksis Kivi (1834), Zachris Topelius (1818), Väinö Linna (1920), and Eino Leino (1878). After her are Juhani Aho (1861), Fredrika Bremer (1801), Pentti Linkola (1932), Nils-Aslak Valkeapää (1943), Bo Carpelan (1926), and Frans Michael Franzén (1772).