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  • Hans Christian Andersen

    1 16.67%
  • Karen Blixen

    0 0%
  • Niels Bohr

    2 33.33%
  • Tycho Brahe

    0 0%
  • Canute the Great

    0 0%
  • Søren Kierkegaard

    1 16.67%
  • Michael Laudrup

    0 0%
  • Arnold Peter Møller

    1 16.67%
  • Jørn Utzon

    0 0%
  • Hans Christian Ørsted

    0 0%
  • other

    1 16.67%
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Thread: Who is the greatest Dane in history?

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    Who is the greatest Dane in history?

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    I hesitated between Canute the Great, Niels Bohr and Arnold Peter Møller. I chose the latter because he had the biggest impact on modern Denmark by founding the Moller-Maersk Group, the largest container ship operator in the world. Bohr's contribution to the atomic bomb does not make him "great" (important, but not great).

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    Lars Von Trier
    Briget Neilson
    Peter Scheimichael
    Hamlet
    Flemming Christiansen

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    Well, someone had to do it!

    It's "George", and according to the Guiness Book of Records he's the biggest.

    (I'm having a silly day today, I've decided!)

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    I don't think there's any one "greatest" person of any nation . All of these are great Danes (not dogs!).
    Another who is not listed here but should be is Denmarlk's greatest composer Carl Nielsen (1865-1931 ),
    who worte highly original and individualistic music, mostly famously his six symphonies , and many other
    very interestign works .

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    The answer is obviously Hamlet. As a historical individual he is not especially useful, but his fame has been vastly extended by his literary importance through Shakespeare.

    Otherwise, Soren Kierkegaard should have been euthanized about the time that he left Regina Olson. Nihilists should never be regarded as worthy of admiration in any sense.

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