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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 209,526 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia. Adam Michnik is the 3,013th most popular writer (up from 3,340th in 2019), the 651st most popular biography from Poland (up from 679th in 2019) and the 73rd most popular Polish Writer.

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  • 210k

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  • 51.60

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 25

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.30

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.88

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Adam Michnik ranks 3,013 out of 5,755Before him are Rolf Hochhuth, Grigore Vieru, Janet Frame, Anthony Horowitz, Robert McKee, and Pascal Quignard. After him are Judith Gautier, Sohrab Sepehri, Juan Pablo Bonet, Howard Pyle, María Kodama, and James Rollins.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1946, Adam Michnik ranks 256Before him are Andrea Dworkin, Sher Bahadur Deuba, Rocío Jurado, Camilo Sesto, Bruce Davison, and Diane von Fürstenberg. After him are Lana Wood, Jeffrey Jones, Carmine Appice, Anatoliy Banishevskiy, Paul Smith, and Roméo Dallaire.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Adam Michnik ranks 651 out of 1,454Before him are Andrzej Munk (1921), Janosch (1931), Maria Dąbrowska (1889), Ernst Wiechert (1887), Zeev Sternhell (1935), and Joseph Serchuk (1919). After him are Wincenty Witos (1874), Duke William Frederick Philip of Württemberg (1761), Andrzej Panufnik (1914), Haroun Tazieff (1914), Jacob Heinrich von Flemming (1667), and Julian Marchlewski (1866).

Among WRITERS In Poland

Among writers born in Poland, Adam Michnik ranks 73Before him are Uwe Johnson (1934), Michalina Wisłocka (1921), Hermann Rauschning (1887), Janosch (1931), Maria Dąbrowska (1889), and Ernst Wiechert (1887). After him are Martin Gray (1922), Stefanie Zweig (1932), Duchess Agnes of Württemberg (1835), Marcin Kromer (1512), Joanna Chmielewska (1932), and Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński (1921).