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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 249,221 page views. His biography is available in 43 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 41 in 2019). Bolesław Prus is the 1,227th most popular writer (up from 1,303rd in 2019), the 259th most popular biography from Poland (up from 270th in 2019) and the 23rd most popular Polish Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 250k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 59.24

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 43

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.83

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.79

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Bolesław Prus ranks 1,227 out of 5,755. Before him are Ján Kollár, Cornelius Gallus, Carson McCullers, Victorien Sardou, Antipater of Sidon, and Nizar Qabbani. After him are Al-Khansa, Gottfried Benn, José Maria de Eça de Queirós, Ljudevit Gaj, Andrei Platonov, and Quintus Fabius Pictor.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1847, Bolesław Prus ranks 23. Before him are Maria Pia of Savoy, Max Liebermann, Catherine Dolgorukov, Radomir Putnik, Sergey Nechayev, and Paul Langerhans. After him are Maria Vittoria dal Pozzo, Nikolay Zhukovsky, John Bates Clark, Princess Margherita of Bourbon-Parma, Galileo Ferraris, and Jacob Schiff. Among people deceased in 1912, Bolesław Prus ranks 30. Before him are Princess Marie of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, Osborne Reynolds, James Paul Moody, Henry Tingle Wilde, Nettie Stevens, and Nogi Maresuke. After him are Jack Phillips, W. T. Stead, William Booth, Princess Elisabeth of Saxony, Ion Luca Caragiale, and Paul-Émile Lecoq de Boisbaudran.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Bolesław Prus ranks 259 out of 1,454. Before him are Leopold Trepper (1904), Zbigniew Boniek (1956), Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus (1651), Stanisława Walasiewicz (1911), Friedrich Wilhelm, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg (1785), and Edward Gierek (1913). After him are Hans Kammler (1901), Hans-Jürgen Stumpff (1889), Jerzy Kosiński (1933), Stefan Wyszyński (1901), Duchess Maria Dorothea of Württemberg (1797), and Arnold Zweig (1887).

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Among WRITERS In Poland

Among writers born in Poland, Bolesław Prus ranks 23. Before him are Jan Potocki (1761), Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff (1788), Ernst Toller (1893), Emil Ludwig (1881), Tadeusz Mazowiecki (1927), and Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff (1848). After him are Jerzy Kosiński (1933), Arnold Zweig (1887), Albert Barillé (1920), Jan Długosz (1415), Jan Kochanowski (1530), and Sławomir Mrożek (1930).

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