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August Ahlqvist, a Common card
Karl August Engelbrekt Ahlqvist, who wrote as A. Oksanen, was a Finnish professor, poet, scholar of the Finno-Ugric languages, author, and literary critic.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 55
- DEF
- 35
- Power
- 90
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 1,500
Power 90 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 30 % of WikiCards cards.
August Ahlqvist quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the August Ahlqvist card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
He is also remembered as the ______ critic of the writer Aleksis Kivi, who later rose to the position of the national author of Finland.
Answer
sharpest. He is also remembered as the sharpest critic of the writer Aleksis Kivi, who later rose to the position of the national author of Finland. From the August Ahlqvist article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Peng Shige. Peng Shige 58 · August Ahlqvist 55 · William Farish 52 · Samsung Wave 533 48 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Veronica Carmen Ripley. Veronica Carmen Ripley 2,200 · August Ahlqvist 1,500 · Hartog Jacob Hamburger 1,200 · KCNQ5 880 Wikipedia reads over a year.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- He served as professor of Finnish language and literature at the Imperial Alexander University from 1863 as the successor to Elias Lönnrot, and as the university's rector from 1884 to 1887.
- Ahlqvist is regarded as one of the founders of Finno-Ugric studies alongside Matthias Alexander Castrén, and as a poet under the pen name A. Oksanen he introduced several new verse forms into Finnish-language poetry.
- He is also remembered as the sharpest critic of the writer Aleksis Kivi, who later rose to the position of the national author of Finland.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The August Ahlqvist article was read about 1,500 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 55 and blocks with 35: each hit it takes is cut by 14 %.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, August Ahlqvist (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Eero Järnefelt, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
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