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Abraham Jacob van der Aa

1792 - 1857

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Abraham Jacob van der Aa (7 December 1792 – 21 March 1857) was a Dutch writer best known for his dictionaries, one of notable people and the other of notable places in the Netherlands. He was born in Amsterdam in 1792. His father was a lawyer. From the ages of 6 to 12, he visited the dayschool in Amstelveen. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Abraham Jacob van der Aa is the 3,457th most popular writer (up from 3,512th in 2019), the 547th most popular biography from Netherlands (up from 562nd in 2019) and the 27th most popular Dutch Writer.

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Among writers, Abraham Jacob van der Aa ranks 3,457 out of 7,302. Before him are Arctinus of Miletus, Franco Sacchetti, James Aldridge, Marion Chesney, Lawrence Block, and Sylvia Nasar. After him are Coelius Sedulius, Eysteinn Erlendsson, Dmitry Gulia, Tōson Shimazaki, Olympia Fulvia Morata, and Lesches.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1792, Abraham Jacob van der Aa ranks 47. Before him are Thomas Romney Robinson, Moritz Hauptmann, Lev Perovski, Ferdinand, Hereditary Prince of Denmark, José Joaquín de Herrera, and Christian Gmelin. After him are George Cruikshank, Martin Ohm, Maria Quitéria, James Francis Stephens, Friedrich Wilhelm, Count Brandenburg, and Charles Grandison Finney. Among people deceased in 1857, Abraham Jacob van der Aa ranks 45. Before him are Nasir-ud-Daulah, Johann Jakob Heckel, William Amherst, 1st Earl Amherst, Manuel José Quintana, Carl Ludwig Koch, and Johann Friedrich Naumann. After him are Wei Yuan, Alexander Ivanovich Ostermann-Tolstoy, Juan Lindo, Johann Schweigger, Abe Masahiro, and Frederick Scott Archer.

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In Netherlands

Among people born in Netherlands, Abraham Jacob van der Aa ranks 547 out of 1,646. Before him are Jan de Vries (1890), Jan Mostaert (1475), Cornelis Lely (1854), Arnold Mühren (1951), Otto Marseus van Schrieck (1619), and Jan van Bijlert (1597). After him are Walter Lewin (1936), Ard Schenk (1944), Wim Rijsbergen (1952), Jan Wouters (1960), Gerard Philips (1858), and Michael Reiziger (1973).

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Among WRITERS In Netherlands

Among writers born in Netherlands, Abraham Jacob van der Aa ranks 27. Before him are Gerard Reve (1923), Tim Krabbé (1943), Gysbert Japiks (1603), Macropedius (1487), Jan Luyken (1649), and Hendrik Willem van Loon (1882). After him are Annie M. G. Schmidt (1911), Willem Frederik Hermans (1921), Bertus Aafjes (1914), Jan Wolkers (1925), Simon Vestdijk (1898), and Herman Heijermans (1864).

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