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Hans Christian Andersen

1805 - 1875

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Hans Christian Andersen ( AN-dər-sən, Danish: [ˈhænˀs ˈkʰʁestjæn ˈɑnɐsn̩, - ˈkʰʁæs-] ; 2 April 1805 – 4 August 1875) was a Danish author. Although a prolific writer of plays, travelogues, novels, and poems, he is best remembered for his literary fairy tales. Andersen's fairy tales, consisting of 156 stories across nine volumes, have been translated into more than 125 languages. They have become embedded in Western collective consciousness, accessible to children as well as presenting lessons of virtue and resilience in the face of adversity for mature readers. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Hans Christian Andersen is the 8th most popular writer (up from 10th in 2019), the most popular biography from Denmark and the most popular Danish Writer.

Hans Christian Andersen is most famous for his fairy tales.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Hans Christian Andersen ranks 8 out of 7,302. Before him are Fyodor Dostoevsky, William Shakespeare, Dante Alighieri, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, J. R. R. Tolkien, and Edgar Allan Poe. After him are Leo Tolstoy, Franz Kafka, Victor Hugo, Voltaire, James Joyce, and Sophocles.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1805, Hans Christian Andersen ranks 1. After him are Joseph Smith, Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet, Princess Sophie of Bavaria, Alexis de Tocqueville, Giuseppe Mazzini, William Rowan Hamilton, Ferdinand de Lesseps, Maria Anna of Bavaria, Fanny Mendelssohn, Louis Auguste Blanqui, and Franz Xaver Winterhalter. Among people deceased in 1875, Hans Christian Andersen ranks 1. After him are Georges Bizet, Ferdinand I of Austria, Jean-François Millet, Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, Éliphas Lévi, Andrew Johnson, John Edward Gray, Heinrich Louis d'Arrest, Charles Lyell, Isaac Singer, and Friedrich Wilhelm Argelander.

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In Denmark

Among people born in Denmark, Hans Christian Andersen ranks 1 out of 1,032. After him are Cnut the Great (995), Margrethe II of Denmark (1940), Niels Bohr (1885), Hans Christian Ørsted (1777), Søren Kierkegaard (1813), Harald Bluetooth (935), Haakon VII of Norway (1872), Frederick IX of Denmark (1899), Margaret I of Denmark (1353), Christian X of Denmark (1870), and Karl Adolph Gjellerup (1857).

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Among WRITERS In Denmark

Among writers born in Denmark, Hans Christian Andersen ranks 1. After him are Karl Adolph Gjellerup (1857), Sigrid Undset (1882), Johannes V. Jensen (1873), Henrik Pontoppidan (1857), Karen Blixen (1885), N. F. S. Grundtvig (1783), Tove Ditlevsen (1917), Jens Peter Jacobsen (1847), Georg Brandes (1842), Sven Hassel (1917), and Martin Andersen Nexø (1869).

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