Karl Adolph Gjellerup

Karl Adolph Gjellerup was a Danish poet and novelist who together with his compatriot Henrik Pontoppidan won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1917. He is associated with the Modern Breakthrough period of Scandinavian literature. He occasionally used the pseudonym Epigonos.

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Who was born first?

• Karl Adolph Gjellerup and Henrik Pontoppidan were born the same year
• Karl Adolph Gjellerup and Lucien Lévy-Bruhl were born the same year
• Karl Adolph Gjellerup and Thorstein Veblen were born the same year
• Karl Adolph Gjellerup and Muhammad Shibli Nomani were born the same year
• Karl Adolph Gjellerup was born 1 year after John Singer Sargent

Timeline

1. John Singer SargentJanuary 12, 1856 – April 1925
2. Henrik PontoppidanJuly 24, 1857 – August 21, 1943
3. Karl Adolph Gjellerup (this page)June 2, 1857 – October 11, 1919
4. Lucien Lévy-BruhlApril 10, 1857 – March 13, 1939
5. Muhammad Shibli NomaniJune 3, 1857 – November 18, 1914
6. Thorstein VeblenJuly 30, 1857 – August 3, 1929

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