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Carl Jonas Love Almqvist

1793 - 1866

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Carl Jonas Love Ludvig Almqvist (28 November 1793 – 26 September 1866) was a Swedish author, romantic poet, romantic critic of political economy, realist, composer and social critic. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Carl Jonas Love Almqvist is the 2,437th most popular writer (up from 2,854th in 2019), the 367th most popular biography from Sweden (up from 398th in 2019) and the 27th most popular Swedish Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Carl Jonas Love Almqvist ranks 2,437 out of 7,302. Before him are Jacques Roubaud, Cornelis Tromp, Andreas Capellanus, Anne Holt, Juan del Encina, and Eugène Marin Labiche. After him are Indro Montanelli, Sophron, Viveca Sten, Stefan Żeromski, Pierre Alexis Ponson du Terrail, and José Luis de Vilallonga, 9th Marquess of Castellbell.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1793, Carl Jonas Love Almqvist ranks 26. Before him are Thomas Addison, Karl Lachmann, Philipp Veit, Johann Friedrich von Eschscholtz, Constantine Kanaris, and Princess Caroline of Denmark. After him are Mikhail Dmitrievich Gorchakov, Johann Lukas Schönlein, Baldomero Espartero, Lucretia Mott, Aleksander Fredro, and Marie Antoinette Murat. Among people deceased in 1866, Carl Jonas Love Almqvist ranks 18. Before him are Friedrich Rückert, Rikard Nordraak, Thomas Hodgkin, Adolph Diesterweg, Paul Gavarni, and Alexander von Nordmann. After him are Massimo d'Azeglio, Winfield Scott, Luigi Carlo Farini, Adrien-François Servais, Mikhail Muravyov-Vilensky, and Thuwaini bin Said.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Carl Jonas Love Almqvist ranks 367 out of 1,879. Before him are Carl Milles (1875), Lena Nyman (1944), Esaias Tegnér (1782), Stefan Johansson (1956), Bruno Liljefors (1860), and Anna Vasa of Sweden (1568). After him are Pehr Osbeck (1723), Viveca Sten (1959), Carl Gustaf von Rosen (1909), Reine Wisell (1941), John Ljunggren (1919), and Gunnar Nilsson (1948).

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Among WRITERS In Sweden

Among writers born in Sweden, Carl Jonas Love Almqvist ranks 27. Before him are Elsa Beskow (1874), Per Wahlöö (1926), Håkan Nesser (1950), Sven Nordqvist (1946), Ulf Stark (1944), and Esaias Tegnér (1782). After him are Viveca Sten (1959), Artur Lundkvist (1906), Per Daniel Amadeus Atterbom (1790), Jonas Jonasson (1961), Lars Norén (1944), and Vilhelm Moberg (1898).

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