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PHILOSOPHER

Sara Danius

1962 - 2019

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Sara Maria Danius (5 April 1962 – 12 October 2019) was a Swedish literary critic and philosopher, and a scholar of literature and aesthetics. Danius was professor of aesthetics at Södertörn University, docent of literature at Uppsala University and professor in literary science at Stockholm University. Danius was a member of the Swedish Academy and its first female permanent secretary. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sara Danius has received more than 225,777 page views. Her biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Sara Danius is the 1,126th most popular philosopher (down from 1,060th in 2019), the 909th most popular biography from Sweden (down from 799th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Swedish Philosopher.

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  • 43.01

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  • 27

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  • 3.11

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.55

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Sara Danius ranks 1,126 out of 1,081Before her are R. C. Sproul, Quentin Meillassoux, Mark Fisher, Rambhadracharya, Bernard Bosanquet, and Charles Hartshorne. After her are C. H. Dodd, Patricia Hill Collins, Walter Kaufmann, Antoinette Brown Blackwell, Richard David Precht, and Peter Geach.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1962, Sara Danius ranks 331Before her are Tony Cascarino, Margaritis Schinas, Akiva Goldsman, Sri Mulyani, Hakainde Hichilema, and Nélson Luís Kerchner. After her are Nicholas Lea, Timo Soini, Erika Hess, Mikhail Krug, Pam Shriver, and Ali Smith. Among people deceased in 2019, Sara Danius ranks 401Before her are Shivakumara Swami, Ivan Kizimov, Nikolai Gorbachev, Chuck Peddle, Martin Feldstein, and D. A. Pennebaker. After her are Blanca Fernández Ochoa, Sigvard Ericsson, Carmine Caridi, Ilona Novák, Giovanni Bramucci, and Eduard Krieger.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Sara Danius ranks 909 out of 1,612Before her are Titiyo (1967), Cecilia Malmström (1968), Mats Näslund (1959), Erik Elmsäter (1919), Jan Jönsson (1960), and Anders Linderoth (1950). After her are Sigvard Ericsson (1930), Andreas Granqvist (1985), Lykke Li (1986), Horace Engdahl (1948), Sebastian Ingrosso (1983), and Erik Svensson (1903).

Among PHILOSOPHERS In Sweden

Among philosophers born in Sweden, Sara Danius ranks 6Before her are Emanuel Swedenborg (1688), Johan Vilhelm Snellman (1806), Lars Gustafsson (1936), Caspar Bartholin the Elder (1585), and Nick Bostrom (1973).