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Leonora Christina Ulfeldt

1621 - 1698

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Leonora Christina, Countess Ulfeldt, born "Countess Leonora Christina Christiansdatter" til Slesvig og Holsten (8 July 1621 – 16 March 1698), was the daughter of King Christian IV of Denmark and wife of the Steward of the Realm, the traitor Count Corfitz Ulfeldt. Renowned in Denmark since the 19th century for her posthumously published autobiography Jammers Minde, written secretly during two decades of solitary confinement in a royal dungeon, her intimate version of the major events she witnessed in Europe's history, interwoven with ruminations on her woes as a political prisoner, still commands popular interest and scholarly respect, and has virtually become the stuff of legend as retold and enlivened in Danish literature and art. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Leonora Christina Ulfeldt is the 2,401st most popular writer (down from 2,180th in 2019), the 247th most popular biography from Denmark (down from 221st in 2019) and the 21st most popular Danish Writer.

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Among writers, Leonora Christina Ulfeldt ranks 2,401 out of 7,302. Before her are Gulbadan Begum, Ernst Robert Curtius, John Marston, Paul Adam, Kyōka Izumi, and Vasily Aksyonov. After her are Akaki Tsereteli, Pascal Bruckner, Zeki Müren, Noël Coward, Henry Louis Gates Jr., and Valery Larbaud.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1621, Leonora Christina Ulfeldt ranks 9. Before her are George II Rákóczi, Amakusa Shirō, Thomas Willis, Petar Zrinski, Guru Tegh Bahadur, and Allaert van Everdingen. After her are Gerbrand van den Eeckhout, Maximilian Henry of Bavaria, Isaac van Ostade, Shi Lang, Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury, and Jan Baptist Weenix. Among people deceased in 1698, Leonora Christina Ulfeldt ranks 6. Before her are Ernest Augustus, Elector of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Rasmus Bartholin, Petro Doroshenko, Frederick Casimir Kettler, and Gerrit Berckheyde. After her are Andrea Guarneri, John George II, Duke of Saxe-Eisenach, Hâfiz Osman, Willem de Vlamingh, Balthasar Bekker, and Louis de Buade de Frontenac.

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In Denmark

Among people born in Denmark, Leonora Christina Ulfeldt ranks 247 out of 1,032. Before her are Karl Verner (1846), Princess Elisabeth of Denmark (1935), Christian August II, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg (1798), Svein Knutsson (1016), Princess Wilhelmine Ernestine of Denmark (1650), and Thomas Vinterberg (1969). After her are Helle Thorning-Schmidt (1966), Viggo Jensen (1874), Princess Louise of Denmark (1875), Carl Lange (1834), Henning Jensen (1949), and Princess Dagmar of Denmark (1890).

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Among WRITERS In Denmark

Among writers born in Denmark, Leonora Christina Ulfeldt ranks 21. Before her are Jeppe Aakjær (1866), Aksel Sandemose (1899), Ole Nydahl (1941), Jens Fink-Jensen (1956), Inger Christensen (1935), and Herman Bang (1857). After her are Kjeld Abell (1901), Peter Høeg (1957), Kaj Munk (1898), Johannes Ewald (1743), Cecil Bødker (1927), and Holger Drachmann (1846).

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