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Fredrika Bremer

1801 - 1865

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Fredrika Bremer (17 August 1801 – 31 December 1865) was a Finnish-born Swedish writer and reformer. Her Sketches of Everyday Life were wildly popular in Britain and the United States during the 1840s and 1850s and she is regarded as the Swedish Jane Austen, bringing the realist novel to prominence in Swedish literature. In her late 30s, she successfully petitioned King Charles XIV for emancipation from her brother's wardship; in her 50s, her novel Hertha prompted a social movement that granted all unmarried Swedish women legal majority at the age of 25 and established Högre Lärarinneseminariet, Sweden's first female tertiary school. It also inspired Sophie Adlersparre to begin publishing the Home Review, Sweden's first women's magazine as well as the later magazine Hertha. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Fredrika Bremer is the 1,947th most popular writer (up from 2,376th in 2019), the 82nd most popular biography from Finland (up from 100th in 2019) and the 13th most popular Finnish Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Fredrika Bremer ranks 1,947 out of 7,302. Before her are Sanai, Dorothy L. Sayers, Emmanuel Carrère, Nicanor Parra, Laura Mancinelli, and Mikhail Artsybashev. After her are Ippolita Maria Sforza, László Krasznahorkai, Hendrik Conscience, Anagarika Dharmapala, David Morrell, and Almeida Garrett.

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Among people born in 1801, Fredrika Bremer ranks 33. Before her are Moritz von Jacobi, David Farragut, Rifa'a al-Tahtawi, Julius Plücker, Jean-Baptiste Boussingault, and Justo José de Urquiza. After her are Karl Baedeker, Johann Nestroy, Salvadore Cammarano, Adolphe-Théodore Brongniart, Richard Parkes Bonington, and Carl Jakob Sundevall. Among people deceased in 1865, Fredrika Bremer ranks 30. Before her are Shoqan Walikhanov, Alexandros Mavrokordatos, Madeleine Sophie Barat, George Phillips Bond, Giuditta Pasta, and James Barry. After her are Ángel de Saavedra, 3rd Duke of Rivas, Shigechiyo Izumi, Heinrich Wilhelm Schott, Antoine Wiertz, Andrés Bello, and Sebastián Iradier.

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In Finland

Among people born in Finland, Fredrika Bremer ranks 82 out of 751. Before her are Kaija Saariaho (1952), Ernst Linder (1868), Matti Järvinen (1909), Bernhard Crusell (1775), Einojuhani Rautavaara (1928), and Juhani Aho (1861). After her are Jarno Saarinen (1945), Juha Kankkunen (1959), Henri Toivonen (1956), Edvard Westermarck (1862), Markku Alén (1951), and Tommi Mäkinen (1964).

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Among WRITERS In Finland

Among writers born in Finland, Fredrika Bremer ranks 13. Before her are Aleksis Kivi (1834), Zachris Topelius (1818), Eino Leino (1878), Väinö Linna (1920), Minna Canth (1844), and Juhani Aho (1861). After her are Nils-Aslak Valkeapää (1943), Bo Carpelan (1926), Pentti Linkola (1932), Paavo Haavikko (1931), Johannes Linnankoski (1869), and August Ahlqvist (1826).

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