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Ignacy Krasicki

1735 - 1801

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Ignacy Błażej Franciszek Krasicki (3 February 1735 – 14 March 1801), from 1766 Prince-Bishop of Warmia (in German, Ermland) and from 1795 Archbishop of Gniezno (thus, Primate of Poland), was Poland's leading Enlightenment poet ("the Prince of Poets"), a critic of the clergy, Poland's La Fontaine, author of the first Polish novel, playwright, journalist, encyclopedist, and translator from French and Greek. His most notable literary works were his Fables and Parables (1779), Satires (1779), and poetic letters and religious lyrics, in which the artistry of his poetic language reached its summit. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ignacy Krasicki has received more than 162,973 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Ignacy Krasicki is the 2,482nd most popular writer (up from 2,483rd in 2019), the 538th most popular biography from Poland (down from 523rd in 2019) and the 58th most popular Polish Writer.

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  • 26

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Among writers, Ignacy Krasicki ranks 2,482 out of 5,755. Before him are Edward FitzGerald, Philip Kerr, Philippe de Mornay, Marko Vovchok, Richard Wright, and Isaac Deutscher. After him are Ariwara no Narihira, Cyprian Norwid, Branislaw Tarashkyevich, Petrus Comestor, André Frossard, and John Zerzan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1735, Ignacy Krasicki ranks 17. Before him are August Ludwig von Schlözer, Johann Karl August Musäus, Charles Christian, Prince of Nassau-Weilburg, Alexandre-Théophile Vandermonde, Dmitry Levitzky, and Ibrahim Bey. After him are József Alvinczi, Paul Kray, Augustus FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton, Josephus Nicolaus Laurenti, Ivan Kulibin, and Joseph Ducreux. Among people deceased in 1801, Ignacy Krasicki ranks 21. Before him are Princess Philippine Charlotte of Prussia, Infanta Maria Josefa of Spain, Duchess Louise Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Franz Moritz von Lacy, Motoori Norinaga, and Déodat Gratet de Dolomieu. After him are Daniel Chodowiecki, Nikolai Vasilyeich Repnin, Johann Gottlieb Naumann, Félix María de Samaniego, Ralph Abercromby, and Princess Charlotte Amalie of Hesse-Philippsthal.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Ignacy Krasicki ranks 538 out of 1,454. Before him are Olga Boznańska (1865), Shmuel Eisenstadt (1923), Bronisław Geremek (1932), Mikhail Dmitrievich Gorchakov (1793), Kurt Sanderling (1912), and Isaac Deutscher (1907). After him are Cyprian Norwid (1821), Alfred Józef Potocki (1817), Andrzej Szarmach (1950), Ernst Gunther, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein (1863), Johann Reinhold Forster (1729), and Max von Gallwitz (1852).

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Among WRITERS In Poland

Among writers born in Poland, Ignacy Krasicki ranks 58. Before him are Józef Ignacy Kraszewski (1812), Lidia Zamenhof (1904), Hans Hellmut Kirst (1914), Tadeusz Różewicz (1921), Uri Orlev (1931), and Isaac Deutscher (1907). After him are Cyprian Norwid (1821), Maciej Stryjkowski (1547), Jerzy Andrzejewski (1909), Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski (1595), Aleksander Fredro (1793), and Bernhard Grzimek (1909).

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