WRITER

Dositej Obradović

1742 - 1811

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Dositej Obradović (Serbian Cyrillic: Доситеј Обрадовић, Serbian pronunciation: [dɔsǐtɛːj ɔbrǎːdɔʋitɕ]; 17 February 1739 – 7 April 1811) was a Serbian writer, biographer, diarist, philosopher, pedagogue, educational reformer, linguist and the first minister of education of Serbia. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Dositej Obradović has received more than 169,706 page views. His biography is available in 38 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 37 in 2019). Dositej Obradović is the 1,092nd most popular writer (up from 1,430th in 2019), the 72nd most popular biography from Romania (up from 94th in 2019) and the 10th most popular Romanian Writer.

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  • 61.02

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  • 38

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.98

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.99

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Izbor poućnih sastava
1904
Sabrana dela
Accessible book
1836
Izabrani spisi
1969
Život i priključenija
Biography, Philosophers, Educators
1969
Domaća pisma
1899
Basne
Serbian Fables, Accessible book
1895

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Dositej Obradović ranks 1,092 out of 7,302. Before him are Dylan Thomas, Ruy González de Clavijo, E. M. Forster, Joseph Karo, Nathalie Sarraute, and Pierre Louÿs. After him are Tadeusz Mazowiecki, Fernando Arrabal, Michael Connelly, Jean Moréas, Alfred Brehm, and Cees Nooteboom.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1742, Dositej Obradović ranks 9. Before him are Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, Yemelyan Pugachev, Maria Christina, Duchess of Teschen, Agha Mohammad Khan Qajar, Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, and Nicolas Leblanc. After him are Jean-Mathieu-Philibert Sérurier, François Laurent d'Arlandes, Jakob Friedrich Ehrhart, Ignaz von Born, Charlotte von Stein, and Jean Baptiste François Pierre Bulliard. Among people deceased in 1811, Dositej Obradović ranks 6. Before him are Heinrich von Kleist, Peter Simon Pallas, Louis Antoine de Bougainville, Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, and Charles Frederick, Grand Duke of Baden. After him are Jean Chalgrin, Eliza Poe, Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos, Ignacio Allende, William Cavendish, 5th Duke of Devonshire, and Nevil Maskelyne.

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In Romania

Among people born in Romania, Dositej Obradović ranks 72 out of 844. Before him are Corneliu Zelea Codreanu (1899), Clara Haskil (1895), Petre Dumitrescu (1882), Gabriel Bethlen (1580), Petru Groza (1884), and Jean Negulesco (1900). After him are Ștefan Kovács (1920), László Rajk (1909), Mihnea cel Rău (1462), Dinu Lipatti (1917), David Wechsler (1896), and Ion Mihai Pacepa (1928).

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Among WRITERS In Romania

Among writers born in Romania, Dositej Obradović ranks 10. Before him are Herta Müller (1953), Elie Wiesel (1928), Jacob L. Moreno (1889), Dimitrie Cantemir (1673), Mihai Eminescu (1850), and Panait Istrati (1884). After him are Károly Kerényi (1897), Ion Luca Caragiale (1852), Lajos Zilahy (1891), Ion Creangă (1837), Miklós Nyiszli (1901), and Constantin Virgil Gheorghiu (1916).

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