WRITER

France Prešeren

1800 - 1849

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France Prešeren (pronounced [fɾanˈtsɛ pɾɛˈʃeːɾn] ) (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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of France Prešeren has received more than 296,490 page views. His biography is available in 63 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 61 in 2019). France Prešeren is the 325th most popular writer (up from 598th in 2019), the 3rd most popular biography from Slovenia (up from 4th 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.

Memorability Metrics

  • 300k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 69.75

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 63

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.75

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.15

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, France Prešeren ranks 325 out of 7,302. Before him are Michael Ende, Czesław Miłosz, Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Archilochus, Friedrich Schlegel, and J. M. Coetzee. After him are Peter Drucker, Ève Curie, Pär Lagerkvist, André Malraux, Théophile Gautier, and Coen brothers.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1800, France Prešeren ranks 3. Before him are Friedrich Wöhler, and Helmuth von Moltke the Elder. After him are Emperor Ninkō, Millard Fillmore, Charles Goodyear, Henry Fox Talbot, John Edward Gray, Jean-Baptiste Dumas, Nat Turner, James Clark Ross, and John Brown. Among people deceased in 1849, France Prešeren ranks 9. Before him are James K. Polk, Hokusai, Muhammad Ali of Egypt, Johann Strauss I, Anne Brontë, and William II of the Netherlands. After him are Sándor Petőfi, Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner, Charles Albert of Sardinia, Şehzade Abdullah, Heonjong of Joseon, and Juliette Récamier.

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In Slovenia

Among people born in Slovenia, France Prešeren ranks 3 out of 340. Before him are Barbara of Cilli (1392), and Giuseppe Tartini (1692). After him are Slavoj Žižek (1949), Jože Plečnik (1872), Hugo Wolf (1860), Santorio Santorio (1561), Milan Kučan (1941), Antonio Abetti (1846), Hemma of Gurk (980), Edvard Kardelj (1910), and Franz Miklosich (1813).

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Among WRITERS In Slovenia

Among writers born in Slovenia, France Prešeren ranks 1. After him are Ivan Cankar (1876), Jernej Kopitar (1780), Alma Karlin (1889), Sigismund von Herberstein (1486), Drago Jančar (1948), Edvard Kocbek (1904), Constantin von Wurzbach (1818), Stanko Vraz (1810), Louis Adamic (1898), Valentin Vodnik (1758), and Oton Župančič (1878).

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