WRITER

Bolesław Prus

1847 - 1912

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Aleksander Głowacki (20 August 1847 – 19 May 1912), better known by his pen name Bolesław Prus (Polish: [bɔˈlεswaf ˈprus] ), was a Polish novelist, a leading figure in the history of Polish literature and philosophy, as well as a distinctive voice in world literature. As a 15-year-old, Aleksander Głowacki joined the Polish 1863 Uprising against Imperial Russia. Shortly after his 16th birthday, he suffered severe battle injuries. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Bolesław Prus has received more than 270,729 page views. His biography is available in 45 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 43 in 2019). Bolesław Prus is the 1,158th most popular writer (up from 1,224th in 2019), the 245th most popular biography from Poland (up from 259th in 2019) and the 23rd most popular Polish Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 270k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 66.16

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 45

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.32

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.63

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Bolesław Prus ranks 1,158 out of 7,302. Before him are Chevalier d'Éon, Vivant Denon, Ljudevit Gaj, Jernej Kopitar, Comtessa de Dia, and Ka'b ibn al-Ashraf. After him are Forough Farrokhzad, Alcman, Rosalía de Castro, Aleksis Kivi, Deepak Chopra, and Sankardev.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1847, Bolesław Prus ranks 21. Before him are Annie Besant, Jean Casimir-Perier, Radomir Putnik, Jens Peter Jacobsen, Maria Pia of Savoy, and Maria Vittoria dal Pozzo. After him are Catherine Dolgorukov, Nikolay Zhukovsky, Sergey Nechayev, Paul Langerhans, Frits Thaulow, and Princess Leopoldina of Brazil. Among people deceased in 1912, Bolesław Prus ranks 27. Before him are Nettie Stevens, George Darwin, Franz Reichelt, Nogi Maresuke, Osborne Reynolds, and Princess Marie of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen. After him are John Jacob Astor IV, Paul-Émile Lecoq de Boisbaudran, Gerhard Armauer Hansen, Isidor Straus, Henry Tingle Wilde, and Georg Heym.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Bolesław Prus ranks 245 out of 1,694. Before him are Julia, Princess of Battenberg (1825), Agnieszka Holland (1948), Arnold Zweig (1887), Antoni Grabowski (1857), Adolf Engler (1844), and Martin Agricola (1486). After him are Udo Lattek (1935), Akiba Rubinstein (1880), Anna von Schweidnitz (1339), Hermann Grassmann (1809), Abraham Gottlob Werner (1749), and Itzhak Stern (1901).

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Among WRITERS In Poland

Among writers born in Poland, Bolesław Prus ranks 23. Before him are B. Traven (1882), Johanna Schopenhauer (1766), Emil Ludwig (1881), Ernst Toller (1893), Tadeusz Mazowiecki (1927), and Arnold Zweig (1887). After him are Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff (1848), Albert Barillé (1920), Jan Długosz (1415), Jan Kochanowski (1530), Georg Heym (1887), and Sławomir Mrożek (1930).

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