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France Prešeren

1800 - 1849

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France Prešeren (pronounced [fɾanˈtsɛ pɾɛˈʃeːɾən] ) (2 or 3 December 1800 – 8 February 1849) was a 19th-century Romantic Slovene poet whose poems have been translated into many languages.He has been considered the greatest Slovene classical poet and has inspired later Slovene literature. He wrote the first Slovene ballad and the first Slovene epic. After his death, he became the leading name of the Slovene literary canon.He tied together the motifs of his own unhappy love with that of an unhappy, subjugated homeland. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of France Prešeren has received more than 278,332 page views. His biography is available in 61 different languages on Wikipedia. France Prešeren is the 599th most popular writer (down from 595th in 2019), the 4th most popular biography from Slovenia (up from 5th in 2019) and the most popular Slovene Writer.

France Prešeren is most famous for being the national poet of Slovenia. He was born in 1800 and died in 1849.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, France Prešeren ranks 599 out of 5,755Before him are Eugène Sue, Michael Crichton, Samuel Johnson, Demetrius Vikelas, Alessandro Manzoni, and Camilo José Cela. After him are Pierre Loti, Anton Makarenko, John Donne, Ludwig Tieck, Anne Rice, and Walther von der Vogelweide.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1800, France Prešeren ranks 7Before him are Friedrich Wöhler, Helmuth von Moltke the Elder, Emperor Ninkō, Charles Goodyear, Millard Fillmore, and Henry Fox Talbot. After him are James Clark Ross, John Edward Gray, Jean-Baptiste Dumas, Princess Louise of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg, Ludwig Ritter von Köchel, and John Brown. Among people deceased in 1849, France Prešeren ranks 13Before him are William II of the Netherlands, Anne Brontë, Charles Albert of Sardinia, Sándor Petőfi, Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner, and Heonjong of Joseon. After him are Şehzade Abdullah, Juliette Récamier, Otto Nicolai, Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen, Giuseppe Caspar Mezzofanti, and William Miller.

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In Slovenia

Among people born in Slovenia, France Prešeren ranks 4 out of 295Before him are Giuseppe Tartini (1692), Barbara of Cilli (1392), and Slavoj Žižek (1949). After him are Hugo Wolf (1860), Jože Plečnik (1872), Milan Kučan (1941), Arkan (1952), Santorio Santorio (1561), Janez Janša (1958), Hemma of Gurk (980), and Borut Pahor (1963).

Among WRITERS In Slovenia

Among writers born in Slovenia, France Prešeren ranks 1After him are Ivan Cankar (1876), Jernej Kopitar (1780), Sigismund von Herberstein (1486), Alma Karlin (1889), Edvard Kocbek (1904), Stanko Vraz (1810), Drago Jančar (1948), Count Anton Alexander von Auersperg (1806), Srečko Kosovel (1904), Oton Župančič (1878), and Louis Adamic (1898).