WRITER

Adam Michnik

1946 - Today

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Adam Michnik (Polish pronunciation: [ˈadam ˈmixɲik]; born 17 October 1946) is a Polish historian, essayist, former dissident, public intellectual, as well as co-founder and editor-in-chief of the Polish newspaper, Gazeta Wyborcza. Reared in a family of committed communists, Michnik became an opponent of Poland's communist regime at the time of the party's anti-Jewish purges. He was imprisoned after the 1968 March Events and again after the imposition of martial law in 1981. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Adam Michnik has received more than 224,547 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Adam Michnik is the 2,831st most popular writer (up from 3,002nd in 2019), the 631st most popular biography from Poland (up from 651st in 2019) and the 62nd most popular Polish Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 220k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 53.43

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 27

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.64

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.88

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Z dziejów honoru w Polsce
Politics and government, Political prisoners, History and criticism
1985
Kos cio ¿l, lewica, dialog...
1977
Koṡciół, lewica, dialog
Communism and Christianity, Catholic Church, Church and state
1977
Polskie pytania
Authors, Polish, Biography, History and criticism
1987
Wyznania nawróconego dysydenta
History and criticism, Polish literature
2003
Takie czasy--
Politics and government
1985

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Adam Michnik ranks 2,831 out of 7,302. Before him are R. A. Salvatore, Aeneas Tacticus, Wolfgang Iser, Louis Couperus, Guillén de Castro y Bellvis, and Hitoshi Igarashi. After him are Joseph Delaney, John the Lydian, Pierre Grimal, Ronald Harwood, Ben Hecht, and Peter Høeg.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1946, Adam Michnik ranks 259. Before him are Rocío Jurado, Al Green, Michael Czerny, Ewa Kłobukowska, Jeff Wall, and Camilo Sesto. After him are Leszek Miller, Abdul Ali Mazari, Farag Foda, Dick Wolf, Sonthi Boonyaratglin, and Jacques Tardi.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Adam Michnik ranks 631 out of 1,694. Before him are Ewa Kłobukowska (1946), Jan Czochralski (1885), Heinrich Graetz (1817), Tadeusz Różewicz (1921), Peter Berling (1934), and Julius von Sachs (1832). After him are Stanisław Szukalski (1893), Myer Prinstein (1878), Leszek Miller (1946), Aleksander Fredro (1793), Władysław Czartoryski (1828), and Aleksander Zawadzki (1899).

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Among WRITERS In Poland

Among writers born in Poland, Adam Michnik ranks 62. Before him are Jerzy Andrzejewski (1909), Ewald Christian von Kleist (1715), Ignacy Krasicki (1735), Isaac Deutscher (1907), Hans Hellmut Kirst (1914), and Tadeusz Różewicz (1921). After him are Aleksander Fredro (1793), Alfred Kerr (1867), Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski (1595), Nathan Alterman (1910), Hermann Rauschning (1887), and Maria Dąbrowska (1889).

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