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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 182,672 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Dionysios Solomos is the 2,380th most popular writer (down from 2,281st in 2019), the 457th most popular biography from Greece (down from 445th in 2019) and the 55th most popular Greek Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Dionysios Solomos ranks 2,380 out of 5,755Before him are Dezső Kosztolányi, Anne Golon, Fyodor Sologub, Jean Astruc, Agathangelos, and Verrius Flaccus. After him are Giovanni de' Bardi, Al-Sharif al-Radi, Franz Overbeck, Robert James Waller, Jacques Futrelle, and António Vieira.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1798, Dionysios Solomos ranks 20Before him are Alexander Gorchakov, Thomas Hodgkin, Josiah Warren, Franz Ernst Neumann, Andries Pretorius, and Christian August II, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg. After him are Johan Rudolph Thorbecke, Jacques Leroy de Saint-Arnaud, Jules Armand Dufaure, Massimo d'Azeglio, Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume, and Sophronius IV of Alexandria. Among people deceased in 1857, Dionysios Solomos ranks 28Before him are Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Marquis de Custine, Théodolinde de Beauharnais, Hinrich Lichtenstein, Augustinos Kapodistrias, and Duke Eugen of Württemberg. After him are Christian Daniel Rauch, Vasily Tropinin, William Brown, Princess Mary, Duchess of Gloucester and Edinburgh, Agustina de Aragón, and Frederick Scott Archer.

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In Greece

Among people born in Greece, Dionysios Solomos ranks 457 out of 936Before him are Patriarch Theophilos III of Jerusalem (1952), Eusebia (400), Agapenor (null), Antigonus of Carystus (-290), Euphranor (-301), and Theodorus Gaza (1398). After him are Glaucon (-445), Alexandros Koryzis (1885), Philotheus I of Constantinople (1300), Koçi Xoxe (1911), Pavlos, Crown Prince of Greece (1967), and Pavlos Kountouriotis (1855).

Among WRITERS In Greece

Among writers born in Greece, Dionysios Solomos ranks 55Before him are Phylarchus (-255), Erinna (-400), Asclepiades of Samos (-320), Victorinus of Pettau (250), Antigonus of Carystus (-290), and Theodorus Gaza (1398). After him are Posidippus (-310), Praxilla (-500), Philitas of Cos (-400), Phrynichus (-535), Anyte of Tegea (-290), and Kostis Palamas (1859).