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Also Known As Hans Mikkelsen
Born December 3, 1684 • Bergen • Norway
Died January 28, 1754 (aged 69) • Copenhagen • Denmark
Notable Works “The Journey of Niels Klim to the World Underground”

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Ludvig Holberg
Ludvig Holberg, detail of an oil painting after a portrait (destroyed) attributed to Roselius, c. 1740–50; in the Kunsthistorisk Pladearkiv, Copenhagen.
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Smollett, detail of an oil painting by an unknown artist, about 1770; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Tobias Smollett
Scottish novelist
Wessel, Johan Herman
Johan Herman Wessel
Danish author
Life-sized plaster sculpture Seated Voltaire by Jean-Antoine Houdon shows Voltaire draped in a robe, seated with a thoughtful expression and a ribbon crown, against a dark background.
Voltaire
French philosopher and author
Poet John Dryden
John Dryden
British author
Nikolay Gogol
Nikolay Gogol
Ukrainian-born writer
Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde
Irish author
Hofmannsthal, photograph by Thea Sternheim, 1911; in the Schiller-Nationalmuseum, Marbach, Ger.
Hugo von Hofmannsthal
Austrian author
Marivaux, Pierre
Pierre Marivaux
French author
Romains
Jules Romains
French author
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John Marston
British dramatist
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Abe Kōbō
Japanese author
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Pietro Aretino
Italian author
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Francisco de Sá de Miranda
Portuguese author
Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz, lithograph by François Le Villain after a portrait by Fabian Sarnecki.
Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz
Polish writer
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Constance Lindsay Skinner
American writer and historian
Anna Cora Mowatt, engraving from a daguerreotype.
Anna Cora Mowatt
American writer
Hauch, Johannes Carsten
Johannes Carsten Hauch
Danish author
Paulding, James Kirke
James Kirke Paulding
American writer
Drachmann
Holger Henrik Herholdt Drachmann
Danish author
Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, portrait after an oil painting by I.E. Repin, 1879
Aleksey Konstantinovich, Count Tolstoy
Russian writer

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