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Nicolaas Pierson

1839 - 1909

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Nicolaas Gerard Pierson (7 February 1839 – 24 December 1909) was a Dutch economist and Liberal statesman who served as the chairman of the Council of Ministers (Prime Minister) of the Netherlands from 1897 until 1901.Pierson was a professor economics and statistics at the University of Amsterdam and director and presiding director (president-directeur) of the De Nederlandsche Bank, the Dutch national bank. He was minister of Finance in the Cabinet Van Tienhoven. During his term of office he introduced an important tax revision. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Nicolaas Pierson has received more than 28,155 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Nicolaas Pierson is the 14,898th most popular politician (down from 14,471st in 2019), the 791st most popular biography from Netherlands (down from 768th in 2019) and the 112th most popular Dutch Politician.

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  • 28k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 47.15

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.31

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.08

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Over the past year Nicolaas Pierson has had the most page views in the with 3,966 views, followed by Dutch (3,432), and French (795). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Ido (92.24%), West Frisian (56.25%), and Latin (48.16%)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Nicolaas Pierson ranks 14,898 out of 19,576. Before him are Jane Marcet, Chung Won-shik, Adad-shuma-iddina, Shah Shuja, Epameinondas Deligeorgis, and Mohamed Abu al-Qasim al-Zwai. After him are Wu Xueqian, Hugo Egmont Hørring, Sakai Toshihiko, Vlastimil Tusar, Queen Gwendolen, and William J. Casey.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1839, Nicolaas Pierson ranks 82. Before him are Marianne Hainisch, Julius Friedrich Cohnheim, Julius Wilbrand, Ludvig Holstein-Ledreborg, Tage Reedtz-Thott, and August W. Eichler. After him are Ignacio Andrade, Almon Brown Strowger, William T. Anderson, Casimiro de Abreu, Ivan Kuratov, and John Aitken. Among people deceased in 1909, Nicolaas Pierson ranks 83. Before him are Ludwig Mond, Ernest Reyer, Laura Theresa Alma-Tadema, Higinio Uriarte, Otto Sinding, and Karel Halíř. After him are Hugo Egmont Hørring, Furqat, Miguel Antonio Caro, William Powell Frith, Carl Bolle, and Clorinda Matto de Turner.

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In Netherlands

Among people born in Netherlands, Nicolaas Pierson ranks 791 out of 1,646. Before him are Matthijs de Ligt (1999), René Pijnen (1946), Bas Paauwe (1911), André Hazes (1951), Nida Senff (1920), and Jasper Cillessen (1989). After him are Albert Mol (1917), Jan Burgers (1895), Gerrie Knetemann (1951), Pieter Jelles Troelstra (1860), Renée Soutendijk (1957), and Theo Heemskerk (1852).

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Among POLITICIANS In Netherlands

Among politicians born in Netherlands, Nicolaas Pierson ranks 112. Before him are Henri Alexis Brialmont (1821), Jan Heemskerk (1818), Princess Mabel of Orange-Nassau (1968), Hans van Mierlo (1931), Pieter Cort van der Linden (1846), and Els Borst (1932). After him are Theo Heemskerk (1852), Kajsa Ollongren (1967), Gijsbert van Tienhoven (1841), Jan Kappeyne van de Coppello (1822), Frans Andriessen (1929), and Joan Röell (1844).

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