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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 66,646 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia. Bálint Balassi is the 2,128th most popular writer (up from 2,257th in 2019), the 65th most popular biography from Slovakia (down from 63rd in 2019) and the 5th most popular Slovak Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Bálint Balassi ranks 2,128 out of 5,755Before him are Imad ad-Din al-Isfahani, Quadratus of Athens, Elena Poniatowska, Jaggi Vasudev, Heinrich Glarean, and John Mandeville. After him are Shakuntala Devi, Abraham ibn Daud, Thorbjørn Egner, Vera Brittain, Giovanni Battista Guarini, and Harold Bloom.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1554, Bálint Balassi ranks 9Before him are Elisabeth of Austria, Queen of France, Walter Raleigh, Charles, Duke of Mayenne, Philip William, Prince of Orange, Tsarevich Ivan Ivanovich of Russia, and Philip Sidney. After him are Ernest of Bavaria, Bartolomeo Carducci, Louis III, Duke of Württemberg, Girolamo Diruta, Richard Hooker, and John Lyly. Among people deceased in 1594, Bálint Balassi ranks 8Before him are Tintoretto, Gerardus Mercator, Orlande de Lassus, Archduchess Eleanor of Austria, Ishikawa Goemon, and Martin Frobisher. After him are Alonso de Ercilla, Thomas Kyd, and Girolamo Mei.

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In Slovakia

Among people born in Slovakia, Bálint Balassi ranks 65 out of 357Before him are Ján Popluhár (1935), Teréz Brunszvik (1775), Ondrej Nepela (1951), Alexander Mach (1902), Jozef Adamec (1942), and Tivadar Csontváry Kosztka (1853). After him are Stephan Endlicher (1804), Alajos Szokolyi (1871), Robert Fico (1964), Maximilian Hell (1720), Vladimír Clementis (1902), and Martina Hingis (1980).

Among WRITERS In Slovakia

Among writers born in Slovakia, Bálint Balassi ranks 5Before him are Pavel Jozef Šafárik (1795), Tibor Sekelj (1912), Ľudovít Štúr (1815), and Ján Kollár (1793). After him are Vladimír Clementis (1902), Imre Madách (1823), Kálmán Mikszáth (1847), Pavol Országh Hviezdoslav (1849), Jozef Miloslav Hurban (1817), Janko Matúška (1821), and Lajos Kassák (1887).