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Dionysios Solomos

1798 - 1857

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Dionysios Solomos (; Greek: Διονύσιος Σολωμός [ði.oniˈsios soloˈmos]; 8 April 1798 – 9 February 1857) was a Greek poet from Zakynthos, who is considered to be Greece's national poet. He is best known for writing the Hymn to Liberty (Greek: Ὕμνος εἰς τὴν Ἐλευθερίαν, Ýmnos eis tīn Eleutherían), which was set to music by Nikolaos Mantzaros and became the Greek and Cypriot national anthem in 1865 and 1966 respectively. He was the central figure of the Heptanese School of poetry. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Dionysios Solomos has received more than 202,339 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Dionysios Solomos is the 2,371st most popular writer (up from 2,373rd in 2019), the 457th most popular biography from Greece and the 56th most popular Greek Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Dionysios Solomos ranks 2,371 out of 7,302. Before him are Frank McCourt, Ueda Akinari, William Auld, Ulf Stark, António Vieira, and Ludovico di Varthema. After him are Leonard Woolf, Edith Hamilton, Cigerxwîn, Jonas Jonasson, Pierre Souvestre, and Fredrika Bremer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1798, Dionysios Solomos ranks 21. Before him are Alexander Gorchakov, Archduchess Clementina of Austria, Johan Rudolph Thorbecke, Thomas Hodgkin, Christian August II, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg, and Andries Pretorius. After him are Massimo d'Azeglio, Jules Armand Dufaure, Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume, Charles Wilkes, Jacques Leroy de Saint-Arnaud, and Sophronius IV of Alexandria. Among people deceased in 1857, Dionysios Solomos ranks 28. Before him are Théodolinde de Beauharnais, Achille Devéria, Hinrich Lichtenstein, Vasily Tropinin, Manuel Oribe, and Daniele Manin. After him are Princess Henriette of Nassau-Weilburg, Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Infanta Ana de Jesus Maria of Braganza, Augustinos Kapodistrias, Christian Daniel Rauch, and Princess Mary, Duchess of Gloucester and Edinburgh.

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In Greece

Among people born in Greece, Dionysios Solomos ranks 457 out of 1,024. Before him are Metrodorus of Chios (-500), John Aniston (1933), Michael Glykas (1125), Diocles (-240), Peter the Patrician (500), and Tommy Lee (1962). After him are Clearchus of Sparta (-401), Hüseyin Hilmi Pasha (1855), Koçi Xoxe (1911), Dorieus (-600), Müezzinzade Ali Pasha (null), and Hyperbolus (-500).

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Among WRITERS In Greece

Among writers born in Greece, Dionysios Solomos ranks 56. Before him are Telesilla (-500), Vassilis Vassilikos (1933), Dexippus (210), Asclepiades of Samos (-320), Phylarchus (-255), and Victorinus of Pettau (250). After him are Philostratus of Lemnos (200), Antigonus of Carystus (-290), Praxilla (-500), Philitas of Cos (-400), Kostis Palamas (1859), and Antiphanes (-388).

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