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Gheorghe Asachi

1788 - 1869

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Gheorghe Asachi (Romanian pronunciation: [ˈɡe̯orɡe aˈsaki], surname also spelled Asaki; 1 March 1788 – 12 November 1869) was a Moldavian, later Romanian, prose writer, poet, painter, historian, dramatist, engineer, border maker, and translator. An Enlightenment-educated polymath and polyglot, he was one of the most influential people of his generation. Asachi was a respected journalist and political figure, as well as active in technical fields such as civil engineering and pedagogy, and, for long, the civil servant charged with overseeing all Moldavian schools. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gheorghe Asachi has received more than 65,398 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Gheorghe Asachi is the 4,225th most popular writer (down from 3,909th in 2019), the 649th most popular biography from Ukraine and the 93rd most popular Ukrainian Writer.

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  • 19

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Notable Works

Opere
1973
Petru Raresh
1958
Leucaida lui Alviro Corintio-Dacico
1991
Istoricheskie novelly ; Dnevnik moldavskogo puteshestvennika ; Izbrannye statʹi
1988
Petru Rareș
Kings and rulers, Biography
1970
Scrieri literare
1957

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Gheorghe Asachi ranks 4,225 out of 7,302. Before him are Esteban Echeverría, William of Poitiers, Guillermo Arriaga, Charlaine Harris, George Kodinos, and Elizabeth Bowen. After him are Arturo Uslar Pietri, Tadeusz Boy-Żeleński, Albert Ehrenstein, Edmonde Charles-Roux, Francesco Mario Pagano, and Konrad Pellikan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1788, Gheorghe Asachi ranks 48. Before him are Sarah Goodridge, Spyridon Trikoupis, Princess Juliane Sophie of Denmark, Edward Sabine, Kikuchi Yōsai, and Margaret Taylor. After him are Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet, Mikhail Shchepkin, Adoniram Judson, Károly Kisfaludy, Edwin Atherstone, and Hugh Clapperton. Among people deceased in 1869, Gheorghe Asachi ranks 42. Before him are Théophile Thoré-Bürger, Ōmura Masujirō, Vladimir Odoyevsky, Princess Ida of Waldeck and Pyrmont, Johann Georg von Hahn, and Otto Jahn. After him are Carlo Cattaneo, Antonie Brentano, Jean René Constant Quoy, Pyotr Pavlovich Yershov, Edwin Stanton, and Pyotr Anjou.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Gheorghe Asachi ranks 649 out of 1,365. Before him are Alexander Galich (1918), Nikolai Gikalo (1897), Semyon Ignatyev (1904), Stanisław Ostrowski (1892), Zhanna Prokhorenko (1940), and Vasyl Stefanyk (1871). After him are Ignacy Feliks Dobrzyński (1807), Valeriy Pustovoitenko (1947), Ross Martin (1920), Valentin Mankin (1938), Panas Myrny (1849), and Lev Kerbel (1917).

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Among WRITERS In Ukraine

Among writers born in Ukraine, Gheorghe Asachi ranks 93. Before him are Vera Inber (1890), Aleksei Kruchyonykh (1886), Yevgeny Petrov (1902), Mark Aldanov (1886), Alexander Galich (1918), and Vasyl Stefanyk (1871). After him are Panas Myrny (1849), Valerian Pidmohylny (1901), Leopold Staff (1878), Dobrodeia of Kiev (1101), Yurii Andrukhovych (1960), and Vladimir Dudintsev (1918).

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