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Edward Rydz-Śmigły

1886 - 1941

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Marshal Edward Śmigły-Rydz [ˈɛdvard ˈrɨdz ˈɕmiɡwɨ] also called Edward Rydz-Śmigły, (11 March 1886 – 2 December 1941) was a Polish politician, statesman, Marshal of Poland and Commander-in-Chief of Poland's armed forces, as well as a painter and poet. Born in 1886, he grew up in small beginnings and was raised by his maternal grandparents after he became an orphan at age 13. He graduated with distinctions from the local Gymnasium. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Edward Rydz-Śmigły has received more than 496,382 page views. His biography is available in 43 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 41 in 2019). Edward Rydz-Śmigły is the 2,239th most popular politician (up from 2,329th in 2019), the 96th most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 83rd in 2019) and the 35th most popular Ukrainian Politician.

Edward Rydz-Śmigły was a Polish military commander who was responsible for the defense of Poland in 1939.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Edward Rydz-Śmigły ranks 2,239 out of 19,576. Before him are Milo of Croton, Amenemhat II, Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, René Coty, Samudragupta, and Arsinoe III of Egypt. After him are Karl Hermann Frank, Pang Tong, Childeric II, Bahram V, José Manuel Barroso, and William IV, Prince of Orange.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1886, Edward Rydz-Śmigły ranks 26. Before him are Jan Masaryk, Theodor Morell, Hermann Broch, Gotthard Heinrici, Zhu De, and Robert Robinson. After him are Sergo Ordzhonikidze, Erich Hoepner, Hugo Ball, Athenagoras I of Constantinople, Kurt Koffka, and Archibald Hill. Among people deceased in 1941, Edward Rydz-Śmigły ranks 22. Before him are El Lissitzky, Ioannis Metaxas, Hans Spemann, Marina Tsvetaeva, Frederick Banting, and Ignacy Jan Paderewski. After him are Ernst Udet, Prajadhipok, Werner Mölders, Werner Sombart, Kurt Koffka, and Ludwig Quidde.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Edward Rydz-Śmigły ranks 96 out of 1,365. Before him are Clarice Lispector (1920), Ignacy Jan Paderewski (1860), Oleg Blokhin (1952), Ivan Franko (1856), Irène Némirovsky (1903), and Trofim Lysenko (1898). After him are Marie Bashkirtseff (1858), Andriy Shevchenko (1976), Reinhold Glière (1874), Roman Shukhevych (1907), Sergei Bondarchuk (1920), and John Demjanjuk (1920).

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Among POLITICIANS In Ukraine

Among politicians born in Ukraine, Edward Rydz-Śmigły ranks 35. Before him are Sergey Bubka (1963), Yuri Dolgorukiy (1095), Andrey Vyshinsky (1883), Nikolai Podgorny (1903), Karl Radek (1885), and Ignacy Jan Paderewski (1860). After him are Yevgeny Primakov (1929), Vsevolod I of Kiev (1030), Michał Korybut Wiśniowiecki (1640), Boris Shcherbina (1919), Anatoly Lunacharsky (1875), and Nikolai Tikhonov (1905).

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