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Elvira Madigan

1867 - 1889

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Hedvig Antoinette Isabella Eleonore Jensen (4 December 1867 – 19 July 1889), better known by her stage name Elvira Madigan, was a circus performer who performed as a slack rope dancer, artistic rider, juggler and dancer. She is best known today for her romantic relationship with the Swedish nobleman and cavalry officer Sixten Sparre. Their joint death caused great sensation and the event was described in song by, among others, the author Johan Lindström Saxon in a song beginning "Sad things happen", which gained great popularity. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Elvira Madigan is the 2,028th most popular writer (down from 1,800th in 2019), the 2,215th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,909th in 2019) and the 132nd most popular German Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Elvira Madigan ranks 2,028 out of 7,302. Before her are Jeremias Gotthelf, Philip Sidney, Pavel Bermondt-Avalov, Friedrich Melchior, Baron von Grimm, Otto IV, Margrave of Brandenburg-Stendal, and Yehuda Amichai. After her are Ion of Chios, Kateb Yacine, Antun Vrančić, Aryadeva, Magnus Felix Ennodius, and Jane Jacobs.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1867, Elvira Madigan ranks 65. Before her are Marcel Schwob, Jeanne Lanvin, Masaoka Shiki, Carl Laemmle, Cy Young, and Marie Krøyer. After her are Jean-Baptiste Charcot, Amy Beach, Julien Benda, Arthur Rackham, Winsor McCay, and Anathon Aall. Among people deceased in 1889, Elvira Madigan ranks 37. Before her are Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly, Ignacy Domeyko, Émile Augier, Viktor Bunyakovsky, Princess Augusta of Hesse-Kassel, and John Ericsson. After her are Franciscus Donders, Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach, Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada, Alfred Józef Potocki, Bernhard Förster, and Charles Mackay.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Elvira Madigan ranks 2,216 out of 7,253. Before her are Louis VIII, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt (1691), William V, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel (1602), Ulrich Mühe (1953), Julius Jacob von Haynau (1786), Yehuda Amichai (1924), and Karl Leopold, Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1678). After her are Hans Wilsdorf (1881), Louis VII, Duke of Bavaria (1368), George I, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt (1547), Stephen the Posthumous (1236), Paul von Hase (1885), and Fritz Wunderlich (1930).

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Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Elvira Madigan ranks 132. Before her are Anthony Ulrich, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1633), Mina Witkojc (1893), Joachim Neander (1650), Katia Mann (1883), Friedrich Melchior, Baron von Grimm (1723), and Yehuda Amichai (1924). After her are Johann Karl August Musäus (1735), Gustav Schwab (1792), Wolfgang Borchert (1921), Waldemar Bonsels (1880), Armin T. Wegner (1886), and Lothar-Günther Buchheim (1918).

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