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Árni Magnússon

1663 - 1730

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Árni Magnússon (Icelandic pronunciation: [ˈau(r)tnɪ ˈmaknusˌsɔːn]; 13 November 1663 – 7 January 1730) was an Icelandic scholar and collector of manuscripts who assembled the Arnamagnæan Manuscript Collection. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Árni Magnússon is the 113th most popular historian (down from 111th in 2019), the 241st most popular biography from Sweden (up from 245th in 2019) and the most popular Swedish Historian.

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Árni Magnússon ranks 113 out of 561. Before him are René Grousset, Cangjie, Frances Yates, Arnold Toynbee, Christoph Cellarius, and W. Montgomery Watt. After him are Reinhart Koselleck, Peter Burke, Leo the Deacon, Michael Glykas, Pierre Nora, and Shoqan Walikhanov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1663, Árni Magnússon ranks 4. Before him are Prince Eugene of Savoy, Thomas Newcomen, and Ferdinando de' Medici, Grand Prince of Tuscany. After him are Guillaume Amontons, Tomaso Antonio Vitali, Princess Eleonore Juliane of Brandenburg-Ansbach, August Hermann Francke, Friedrich Wilhelm Zachow, Luca Carlevarijs, Agafya Grushetskaya, and Ogata Kenzan. Among people deceased in 1730, Árni Magnússon ranks 8. Before him are Peter II of Russia, Frederick IV of Denmark, Leonardo Vinci, Theresa Kunegunda Sobieska, Charles I, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel, and Jakob Ammann. After him are Adrienne Lecouvreur, Luigi Ferdinando Marsili, Hans Hermann von Katte, Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac, François de Neufville, duc de Villeroy, and Benedicta Henrietta of the Palatinate.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Árni Magnússon ranks 241 out of 1,879. Before him are Ingeborg Magnusdotter of Sweden (1277), Anders Gustaf Ekeberg (1767), Thorbjörn Fälldin (1926), Olaus Petri (1493), Princess Sophie of Sweden (1801), and Johan Banér (1596). After him are Ingemar Johansson (1932), Carl Adolph Agardh (1785), Per Olov Enquist (1934), Karin Boye (1900), Princess Margaretha of Sweden (1899), and Gunnar Björnstrand (1909).

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Among HISTORIANS In Sweden

Among historians born in Sweden, Árni Magnússon ranks 1. After him are Artur Hazelius (1833), and Horace Engdahl (1948).

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