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Jacob Riis

1849 - 1914

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Jacob August Riis ( REESS; May 3, 1849 – May 26, 1914) was a Danish-American social reformer, "muck-raking" journalist, and social documentary photographer. He contributed significantly to the cause of urban reform in the United States of America at the turn of the twentieth century. He is known for using his photographic and journalistic talents to help the impoverished in New York City; those impoverished New Yorkers were the subject of most of his prolific writings and photography. He endorsed the implementation of "model tenements" in New York with the help of humanitarian Lawrence Veiller. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jacob Riis is the 59th most popular journalist (up from 65th in 2019), the 393rd most popular biography from Denmark (up from 400th in 2019) and the most popular Danish Journalist.

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Among JOURNALISTS

Among journalists, Jacob Riis ranks 59 out of 196. Before him are Marion Dönhoff, Selma Rıza, Daphne Caruana Galizia, Larry Kudlow, Pavlo Chubynsky, and Plínio Salgado. After him are Martin Parr, Bernard Pivot, Vladislav Listyev, Kazimierz Nowak, Dith Pran, and Maria Ressa.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1849, Jacob Riis ranks 71. Before him are Hugo von Seeliger, Ida Straus, William Ernest Henley, Johan Kjeldahl, Ferdinand Brunetière, and Pedro Montt. After him are Carl Fredrik Hill, Emil Zuckerkandl, Charles F. Brush, Emma Lazarus, Gerhard Munthe, and N. E. Brown. Among people deceased in 1914, Jacob Riis ranks 93. Before him are Camillo Boito, Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts, Harry Rosenbusch, Jane Morris, Georg von Kopp, and Hubertine Auclert. After him are Jules Lemaître, Antun Gustav Matoš, Itō Sukeyuki, Koos de la Rey, Wilhelm Lexis, and Carl Theodore Liebermann.

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In Denmark

Among people born in Denmark, Jacob Riis ranks 393 out of 1,032. Before him are Anders Sandøe Ørsted (1778), Viggo Kampmann (1910), Ole Beich (1955), Jakob Nielsen (1957), Patricia Crone (1945), and Trine Dyrholm (1972). After him are August Philipp, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck (1612), Robert Jacobsen (1912), Jens Ferdinand Willumsen (1864), Ada Adler (1878), Vagn Holmboe (1909), and Japetus Steenstrup (1813).

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Among JOURNALISTS In Denmark

Among journalists born in Denmark, Jacob Riis ranks 1. After him are Lise Rønne (1978).

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