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Árni Magnússon

1663 - 1730

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Árni Magnússon (13 November 1663 – 7 January 1730) was an Icelandic scholar and collector of manuscripts who assembled the Arnamagnæan Manuscript Collection. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Árni Magnússon has received more than 47,067 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Árni Magnússon is the 120th most popular historian (down from 100th in 2019), the 266th most popular biography from Sweden (down from 223rd in 2019) and the most popular Swedish Historian.

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    Languages Editions (L)

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Árni Magnússon ranks 120 out of 339. Before him are Al-Khatib al-Baghdadi, C. Northcote Parkinson, Peter Burke, Richard Sennett, Golo Mann, and François Furet. After him are Anthony Blunt, Evagrius Scholasticus, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Pierre Nora, Pierre de Bourdeille, seigneur de Brantôme, and Richard Pipes.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1663, Árni Magnússon ranks 4. Before him are Prince Eugene of Savoy, Thomas Newcomen, and Ferdinando de' Medici, Grand Prince of Tuscany. After him are Guillaume Amontons, August Hermann Francke, Tomaso Antonio Vitali, Friedrich Wilhelm Zachow, Cotton Mather, Agafya Grushetskaya, Lobsang Yeshe, 5th Panchen Lama, and Princess Eleonore Juliane of Brandenburg-Ansbach. Among people deceased in 1730, Árni Magnússon ranks 12. Before him are Charles I, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel, Adrienne Lecouvreur, Jakob Ammann, Hans Hermann von Katte, François de Neufville, duc de Villeroy, and Luigi Ferdinando Marsili. After him are Benedicta Henrietta of the Palatinate, Ashraf Hotak, Arabella Churchill, Patrona Halil, Nevşehirli Damat Ibrahim Pasha, and Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Árni Magnússon ranks 266 out of 1,612. Before him are Prince Erik, Duke of Västmanland (1889), Camilla Läckberg (1974), Adam Afzelius (1750), Ingeborg Magnusdotter of Sweden (1277), Elsa Beskow (1874), and Prince Carl Philip, Duke of Värmland (1979). After him are Hans Blix (1928), Wilhelm Stenhammar (1871), Björn Waldegård (1943), Erik Acharius (1757), Hjalmar Söderberg (1869), and Thorbjörn Fälldin (1926).

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Among HISTORIANS In Sweden

Among historians born in Sweden, Árni Magnússon ranks 1. After him are Horace Engdahl (1948).

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