1800 - 1849
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.
Page Views (PV)
Historical Popularity Index (HPI)
Languages Editions (L)
Effective Languages (L*)
Coefficient of Variation (CV)
Among writers, France Prešeren ranks 599 out of 5,755. Before 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.
1804 - 1857
HPI: 65.00
Rank: 593
1942 - 2008
HPI: 64.99
Rank: 594
1709 - 1784
HPI: 64.97
Rank: 595
1835 - 1908
HPI: 64.97
Rank: 596
1785 - 1873
HPI: 64.97
Rank: 597
1916 - 2002
HPI: 64.96
Rank: 598
1800 - 1849
HPI: 64.95
Rank: 599
1850 - 1923
HPI: 64.92
Rank: 600
1888 - 1939
HPI: 64.92
Rank: 601
1572 - 1631
HPI: 64.92
Rank: 602
1773 - 1853
HPI: 64.90
Rank: 603
1941 - 2021
HPI: 64.89
Rank: 604
1170 - 1230
HPI: 64.89
Rank: 605
Among people born in 1800, France Prešeren ranks 7. Before 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 13. Before 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.
1800 - 1882
HPI: 72.32
Rank: 1
1800 - 1891
HPI: 71.34
Rank: 2
1800 - 1846
HPI: 68.34
Rank: 3
1800 - 1860
HPI: 68.17
Rank: 4
1800 - 1874
HPI: 67.84
Rank: 5
1800 - 1877
HPI: 65.48
Rank: 6
1800 - 1849
HPI: 64.95
Rank: 7
1800 - 1862
HPI: 63.77
Rank: 8
1800 - 1875
HPI: 63.48
Rank: 9
1800 - 1884
HPI: 61.92
Rank: 10
1800 - 1831
HPI: 61.68
Rank: 11
1800 - 1877
HPI: 60.80
Rank: 12
1800 - 1859
HPI: 60.51
Rank: 13
1792 - 1849
HPI: 68.80
Rank: 7
1820 - 1849
HPI: 68.60
Rank: 8
1798 - 1849
HPI: 66.25
Rank: 9
1823 - 1849
HPI: 65.43
Rank: 10
1780 - 1849
HPI: 65.40
Rank: 11
1827 - 1849
HPI: 65.38
Rank: 12
1800 - 1849
HPI: 64.95
Rank: 13
1776 - 1849
HPI: 64.15
Rank: 14
1777 - 1849
HPI: 62.66
Rank: 15
1810 - 1849
HPI: 61.53
Rank: 16
1792 - 1849
HPI: 60.86
Rank: 17
1774 - 1849
HPI: 60.84
Rank: 18
1782 - 1849
HPI: 59.57
Rank: 19
Among people born in Slovenia, France Prešeren ranks 4 out of 295. Before 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).
1692 - 1770
HPI: 70.79
Rank: 1
1392 - 1451
HPI: 70.10
Rank: 2
1949 - Present
HPI: 67.31
Rank: 3
1800 - 1849
HPI: 64.95
Rank: 4
1860 - 1903
HPI: 63.86
Rank: 5
1872 - 1957
HPI: 62.94
Rank: 6
1941 - Present
HPI: 62.53
Rank: 7
1952 - 2000
HPI: 62.13
Rank: 8
1561 - 1636
HPI: 62.01
Rank: 9
1958 - Present
HPI: 61.95
Rank: 10
980 - 1045
HPI: 61.16
Rank: 11
1963 - Present
HPI: 60.79
Rank: 12
Among writers born in Slovenia, France Prešeren ranks 1. After 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).
1800 - 1849
HPI: 64.95
Rank: 1
1876 - 1918
HPI: 59.98
Rank: 2
1780 - 1844
HPI: 59.80
Rank: 3
1486 - 1566
HPI: 54.87
Rank: 4
1889 - 1950
HPI: 52.73
Rank: 5
1904 - 1981
HPI: 52.72
Rank: 6
1810 - 1851
HPI: 52.12
Rank: 7
1948 - Present
HPI: 51.85
Rank: 8
1806 - 1876
HPI: 51.42
Rank: 9
1904 - 1926
HPI: 50.15
Rank: 10
1878 - 1949
HPI: 50.15
Rank: 11
1898 - 1951
HPI: 48.95
Rank: 12