RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Gjon Buzuku

1499 - 1577

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Gjon Buzuku (c. 1499 – c. 1577) was an Albanian Catholic priest and a prominent Old Albanian author, who wrote the first known printed book in Albanian. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gjon Buzuku has received more than 95,314 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Gjon Buzuku is the 1,872nd most popular religious figure (down from 1,682nd in 2019), the 39th most popular biography from Montenegro (down from 32nd in 2019) and the 6th most popular Montenegrin Religious Figure.

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  • 53.16

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  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.08

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  • 2.31

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Gjon Buzuku ranks 1,872 out of 3,187Before him are Sebastiano Baggio, Giovanni Morone, Bernardino López de Carvajal, Jozef De Kesel, Jean Zerbo, and Al-Bara' ibn Azib. After him are Franjo Kuharić, Antony I of Constantinople, Estanislao Esteban Karlic, Chromatius, Saint Telemachus, and Hyacinth.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1499, Gjon Buzuku ranks 20Before him are Jan Łaski, Polidoro da Caravaggio, Garcia de Orta, Sebastian Franck, Laurentius Petri, and Edmund Tudor, Duke of Somerset. After him are Lempira, Peter Martyr Vermigli, and Johannes Brenz. Among people deceased in 1577, Gjon Buzuku ranks 12Before him are Maria of Portugal, Duchess of Viseu, Şah Sultan, Anna of Saxony, Infanta Maria of Guimarães, Alvise I Mocenigo, and Scipione Rebiba. After him are Charles II, Margrave of Baden-Durlach, and Rémy Belleau.

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In Montenegro

Among people born in Montenegro, Gjon Buzuku ranks 39 out of 142Before him are Duško Ivanović (1957), Sava Petrović (1702), Bogdan Tanjević (1947), Prince Mirko of Montenegro (1879), Branko Kostić (1939), and Borislav Pekić (1930). After him are Danilo, Crown Prince of Montenegro (1871), Miodrag Bulatović (1930), Veselin Vujović (1961), Zdravko Krivokapić (1958), Sekula Drljević (1884), and Željko Petrović (1965).

Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In Montenegro

Among religious figures born in Montenegro, Gjon Buzuku ranks 6Before him are Leopold Mandić (1866), Petar I Petrović-Njegoš (1748), Danilo I, Metropolitan of Cetinje (1670), Amfilohije Radović (1938), and Sava Petrović (1702). After him are Aleksandar Ivović (null).