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Carolyne zu Sayn-Wittgenstein

1819 - 1887

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Princess Carolyne zu Sayn-Wittgenstein (née Iwanowska, Polish: Karolina Elżbieta Sayn-Wittgenstein; 8 February 1819 – 9 March 1887) was a Polish noblewoman who is best known for her 40-year relationship with musician Franz Liszt. She was also an amateur journalist and essayist. It is conjectured that she did much of the actual writing of several of Liszt's publications, especially his 1852 Life of Chopin. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Carolyne zu Sayn-Wittgenstein has received more than 159,588 page views. Her biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Carolyne zu Sayn-Wittgenstein is the 2,327th most popular writer (down from 1,691st in 2019), the 339th most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 233rd in 2019) and the 46th most popular Ukrainian Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Carolyne zu Sayn-Wittgenstein ranks 2,327 out of 7,302Before her are Nguyễn Du, Xue Tao, Zabel Yesayan, Leah Goldberg, Emma Jung, and Armin T. Wegner. After her are Marie Under, Ahron Daum, Richard Aldington, Albert Cossery, Kingsley Amis, and Mary Baker Eddy.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1819, Carolyne zu Sayn-Wittgenstein ranks 47Before her are Estanislao Figueras, Gustave de Molinari, Tirimüjgan Kadın, Johann Voldemar Jannsen, Christopher Latham Sholes, and Eunice Newton Foote. After her are Narcís Monturiol, Clément Juglar, André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri, Ernst Wilhelm von Brücke, Elisabeth Jerichau-Baumann, and Thomas A. Hendricks. Among people deceased in 1887, Carolyne zu Sayn-Wittgenstein ranks 19Before her are Jules Laforgue, Doc Holliday, Anandi Gopal Joshi, Jean-Baptiste Boussingault, Paul Féval, père, and Józef Ignacy Kraszewski. After her are Luigi Jacobini, Agostino Depretis, Hippolyte Bayard, Hans von Marées, William A. Wheeler, and Julius von Haast.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Carolyne zu Sayn-Wittgenstein ranks 339 out of 1,365Before her are Elisabeth Bergner (1897), Janina Lewandowska (1908), Maya Deren (1917), Hilarion of Kiev (990), Nicolae Văcăroiu (1943), and Onufriy (1944). After her are Dmytro Dontsov (1883), Dmitry Dmitrievich Maksutov (1896), Myroslav Skoryk (1938), Euphemia of Kiev (1100), Ihor Kolomoyskyi (1963), and Felix Blumenfeld (1863).

Among WRITERS In Ukraine

Among writers born in Ukraine, Carolyne zu Sayn-Wittgenstein ranks 46Before her are Shaul Tchernichovsky (1875), Sholem Schwarzbard (1886), Ahad Ha'am (1856), Vsevolod Garshin (1855), Tadeusz Borowski (1922), and Mikhail Artsybashev (1878). After her are Dmytro Dontsov (1883), Mikołaj Rej (1505), Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky (1864), Valentin Kataev (1897), Maximilian Voloshin (1877), and Israel Zolli (1881).