WRITER

Peter Wessel Zapffe

1899 - 1990

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Peter Wessel Zapffe (18 December 1899 – 12 October 1990) was a Norwegian philosopher, author, artist, lawyer and mountaineer. He is often noted for his philosophically pessimistic and fatalistic view of human existence. His system of philosophy was inspired by the German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer, as well as his firm advocacy of antinatalism. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Peter Wessel Zapffe has received more than 393,380 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Peter Wessel Zapffe is the 2,848th most popular writer (up from 3,509th in 2019), the 174th most popular biography from Norway (up from 204th in 2019) and the 32nd most popular Norwegian Writer.

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  • 390k

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  • 53.38

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  • 26

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.55

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.93

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Notable Works

Lyksalig Pinsefest
Fiction, Fires and fire prevention, Grue Kirke (Norway)
1972
Om det tragiske
History and criticism, Norwegian drama (Tragedy), Norwegian literature
1988
Essays og epistler
1967
Hos doktor Wangel
1974
Den logiske sandkasse
1966
Kulturelt nødverge
1997

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Peter Wessel Zapffe ranks 2,848 out of 7,302. Before him are Lucius Afranius, Saken Seifullin, Ango Sakaguchi, Farag Foda, Song Yingxing, and Guiraut Riquier. After him are William L. Shirer, Heinrich Vogeler, Mahasweta Devi, Phlegon of Tralles, Aleksander Fredro, and Carl Jonas Love Almqvist.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1899, Peter Wessel Zapffe ranks 130. Before him are Leo Borchard, Semyon Krivoshein, Francis Ponge, Georg Leibbrandt, Zhang Daqian, and Qu Qiubai. After him are Leonid Leonov, Nie Rongzhen, Aleksander Zawadzki, Rufino Tamayo, Oscar Zariski, and Armand Salacrou. Among people deceased in 1990, Peter Wessel Zapffe ranks 113. Before him are Martin Ritt, Del Shannon, Matvey Blanter, Irene Dunne, Prince Andrew of Yugoslavia, and Naoto Tajima. After him are Andrei Kirilenko, Anne Revere, Grethe Ingmann, John Hansen, Venedikt Yerofeyev, and Dodie Smith.

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In Norway

Among people born in Norway, Peter Wessel Zapffe ranks 174 out of 1,039. Before him are Carl Anton Larsen (1860), Gunnar Staalesen (1947), Edvard Moser (1962), Hjalmar Johansen (1867), Berit Mørdre (1940), and Ole Ellefsæter (1939). After him are Agathe Backer Grøndahl (1847), Ole-Johan Dahl (1931), Vilhelm Bjerknes (1862), Cato Maximilian Guldberg (1836), Jens Munk (1579), and Oscar Wisting (1871).

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Among WRITERS In Norway

Among writers born in Norway, Peter Wessel Zapffe ranks 32. Before him are Anne Holt (1958), Nordahl Grieg (1902), Amalie Skram (1846), Petter Dass (1647), Aasmund Olavsson Vinje (1818), and Gunnar Staalesen (1947). After him are Kjell Askildsen (1929), Lars Saabye Christensen (1953), Hans Aanrud (1863), Johan Borgen (1902), Sigurd Hoel (1890), and Karl Ove Knausgård (1968).

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