WRITER

Bálint Balassi

1554 - 1594

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Baron Bálint Balassi de Kékkő et Gyarmat (Hungarian: Gyarmati és kékkői báró Balassi Bálint, Slovak: Valentín Balaša (Valaša) barón z Ďarmôt a Modrého Kameňa; 20 October 1554 – 30 May 1594) was a Hungarian Renaissance lyric poet. He wrote mostly in Hungarian, but was also proficient in eight more languages: Latin, Italian, German, Polish, Turkish, Slovak, Croatian and Romanian. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Bálint Balassi has received more than 74,383 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Bálint Balassi is the 2,287th most popular writer (down from 2,121st in 2019), the 71st most popular biography from Slovakia (down from 65th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Slovak Writer.

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  • 74k

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  • 55.20

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  • 31

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.01

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.50

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

The Lost Rider
2000

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Bálint Balassi ranks 2,287 out of 7,302. Before him are Robert Ressler, Harold Bloom, J.-H. Rosny aîné, Cao Yu, Ding Ling, and William Steig. After him are José-Maria de Heredia, Guillaume Thomas François Raynal, Jean Raspail, José Zorrilla, Jaan Kaplinski, and Karlheinz Deschner.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1554, Bálint Balassi ranks 11. Before him are Tsarevich Ivan Ivanovich of Russia, Charles, Duke of Mayenne, Marietta Robusti, Wakisaka Yasuharu, Philip William, Prince of Orange, and Ernest of Bavaria. After him are Philip Sidney, Louis III, Duke of Württemberg, Bartolomeo Carducci, Girolamo Diruta, Richard Hooker, and John Lyly. Among people deceased in 1594, Bálint Balassi ranks 8. Before him are Tintoretto, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Orlande de Lassus, Ishikawa Goemon, Archduchess Eleanor of Austria, and Martin Frobisher. After him are Alonso de Ercilla, Thomas Kyd, Girolamo Mei, and William Allen.

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In Slovakia

Among people born in Slovakia, Bálint Balassi ranks 71 out of 418. Before him are Ľudovít Fulla (1902), Karol Dobiaš (1947), Alexander Mach (1902), Ondrej Nepela (1951), Johann Andreas Segner (1704), and Léopold Szondi (1893). After him are Juraj Jakubisko (1938), Štefan Tiso (1897), Jozef Vengloš (1936), Marián Čalfa (1946), Alajos Szokolyi (1871), and Anton Ondruš (1950).

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Among WRITERS In Slovakia

Among writers born in Slovakia, Bálint Balassi ranks 5. Before him are Pavel Jozef Šafárik (1795), Tibor Sekelj (1912), Ľudovít Štúr (1815), and Vladimír Clementis (1902). After him are Pavol Országh Hviezdoslav (1849), Imre Madách (1823), Kálmán Mikszáth (1847), Alexander Dukhnovych (1803), Jozef Miloslav Hurban (1817), Lajos Kassák (1887), and Janko Matúška (1821).

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