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Henryk Sienkiewicz

1846 - 1916

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Henryk Adam Aleksander Pius Sienkiewicz (US: shen-KYAY-vitch, -⁠KYEV-itch, Polish: [ˈxɛnrɨk ˈadam alɛkˈsandɛr ˈpjus ɕɛnˈkʲɛvit͡ʂ]; 5 May 1846 – 15 November 1916), also known by the pseudonym Litwos (Polish pronunciation: [ˈlitfɔs]), was a Polish epic writer. He is remembered for his historical novels, such as the Trilogy series and especially for his internationally known best-seller Quo Vadis (1896). Born into an impoverished Polish noble family in Russian-ruled Congress Poland, in the late 1860s he began publishing journalistic and literary pieces. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Henryk Sienkiewicz has received more than 876,256 page views. His biography is available in 98 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 95 in 2019). Henryk Sienkiewicz is the 225th most popular writer (down from 206th in 2019), the 30th most popular biography from Poland (down from 26th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Polish Writer.

Henryk Sienkiewicz is most famous for writing the novel Quo Vadis.

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    Languages Editions (L)

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    Effective Languages (L*)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Henryk Sienkiewicz ranks 225 out of 7,302. Before him are Tomas Tranströmer, Ferdowsi, Isaac Bashevis Singer, J. K. Rowling, Bram Stoker, and Torquato Tasso. After him are Prosper Mérimée, Dario Fo, Herman Melville, Snorri Sturluson, Mikhail Bulgakov, and Shams Tabrizi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1846, Henryk Sienkiewicz ranks 3. Before him are Rudolf Christoph Eucken, and Peter Carl Fabergé. After him are Princess Helena of the United Kingdom, George Westinghouse, Edmondo De Amicis, Wilhelm Maybach, Comte de Lautréamont, Buffalo Bill, Wladimir Köppen, Isabel, Princess Imperial of Brazil, and Naim Frashëri. Among people deceased in 1916, Henryk Sienkiewicz ranks 6. Before him are Grigori Rasputin, Franz Joseph I of Austria, Jack London, Ernst Mach, and Yuan Shikai. After him are William Ramsay, Klas Pontus Arnoldson, Élie Metchnikoff, Franz Marc, Odilon Redon, and Umberto Boccioni.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Henryk Sienkiewicz ranks 30 out of 1,694. Before him are Lech Kaczyński (1949), Fedor von Bock (1880), Władysław IV Vasa (1595), Eric of Pomerania (1381), Isaac Bashevis Singer (1902), and Ernst Cassirer (1874). After him are Zygmunt Bauman (1925), Yitzhak Shamir (1915), Sigismund II Augustus (1520), Günther von Kluge (1882), Andrzej Wajda (1926), and Maria Goeppert Mayer (1906).

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Among WRITERS In Poland

Among writers born in Poland, Henryk Sienkiewicz ranks 6. Before him are Günter Grass (1927), Adam Mickiewicz (1798), Wisława Szymborska (1923), Janusz Korczak (1878), and Isaac Bashevis Singer (1902). After him are Gerhart Hauptmann (1862), Andrzej Sapkowski (1948), Władysław Reymont (1867), Osip Mandelstam (1891), Olga Tokarczuk (1962), and Alfred Döblin (1878).

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