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Jens Baggesen

1764 - 1826

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Jens Immanuel Baggesen (15 February 1764 – 3 October 1826) was a major Danish poet, librettist, critic, and comic writer. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jens Baggesen is the 3,384th most popular writer (down from 3,028th in 2019), the 335th most popular biography from Denmark (down from 309th in 2019) and the 29th most popular Danish Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Jens Baggesen ranks 3,384 out of 7,302Before him are Valerius Antias, Kan Kikuchi, Ewald Christian von Kleist, Yury Olesha, Alexander Sumarokov, and Yury Vlasov. After him are Caspar Barlaeus, Mario Soldati, Akazome Emon, Susanna Tamaro, Apion, and Phan Bội Châu.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1764, Jens Baggesen ranks 22Before him are Andrés Manuel del Río, Sophie de Condorcet, Carlo Andrea Pozzo di Borgo, Dorothea von Schlegel, Charles Percier, and Gustav Hugo. After him are Marie-Joseph Chénier, Valentino Fioravanti, János Bihari, Sidney Smith, Henriette Herz, and Josef Abel. Among people deceased in 1826, Jens Baggesen ranks 42Before him are Georg Franz Hoffmann, Pavel Pestel, Jacob Hübner, Nikolay Rumyantsev, Johann Heinrich Voss, and J. F. Oberlin. After him are Fyodor Rostopchin, Stanisław Staszic, Alexander Gordon Laing, Friedrich August Marschall von Bieberstein, Nicolas Fuss, and Antoni Malczewski.

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In Denmark

Among people born in Denmark, Jens Baggesen ranks 335 out of 1,032Before him are Birthe Wilke (1936), Thomas Gravesen (1976), Frederick Christian I, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg (1721), Caspar Bartholin the Younger (1655), Albert Küchler (1803), and Jacob Brønnum Scavenius Estrup (1825). After him are Alexander, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg (1573), Palle Huld (1912), Karin Michaëlis (1872), Christian Frederik Hansen (1756), Hans Wegner (1914), and John Hansen (1924).

Among WRITERS In Denmark

Among writers born in Denmark, Jens Baggesen ranks 29Before him are Peter Høeg (1957), Kaj Munk (1898), Johannes Ewald (1743), Cecil Bødker (1927), Holger Drachmann (1846), and Ludvig Mylius-Erichsen (1872). After him are Karin Michaëlis (1872), Torben Ulrich (1928), Peter Andreas Heiberg (1758), Ari Behn (1972), Klaus Rifbjerg (1931), and Johannes Jørgensen (1866).