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Ignatz Kolisch

1837 - 1889

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Baron Ignatz von Kolisch (6 April 1837 – 30 April 1889), also Baron Ignaz von Kolisch (German) or báró Kolisch Ignác (Hungarian), was a merchant, journalist and chess master with Jewish roots. Kolisch was born into a Jewish family in Pressburg (known today as Bratislava). Both in business and as a chess player he was eminently successful. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ignatz Kolisch has received more than 26,852 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Ignatz Kolisch is the 93rd most popular chess player, the 118th most popular biography from Slovakia (down from 113th in 2019) and the most popular Slovak Chess Player.

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Among CHESS PLAYERS

Among chess players, Ignatz Kolisch ranks 93 out of 374Before him are Nana Alexandria, Harry Nelson Pillsbury, Friedrich Sämisch, Veselin Topalov, Ernst Grünfeld, and Robert Hübner. After him are Jacques Mieses, Ossip Bernstein, Philipp Stamma, Edward Lasker, Leonid Stein, and Jean Dufresne.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1837, Ignatz Kolisch ranks 70Before him are Barghash bin Said of Zanzibar, Ernst Ziller, Tigran Chukhajian, Walter Hauser, Altaf Hussain Hali, and Tony Robert-Fleury. After him are Charles Yerkes, Jorge Isaacs, Mary Harris Jones, Elizabeth Jane Gardner, Alphonse Legros, and Wilhelm Lexis. Among people deceased in 1889, Ignatz Kolisch ranks 55Before him are Ivan Larionov, Albrecht Ritschl, Şihabetdin Märcani, Josip Filipović, Louis Faidherbe, and Benedetto Cairoli. After him are Ernst Rudolf von Trautvetter, Sergey Botkin, Belle Starr, Pyotr Andreyevich Shuvalov, Samuel Brannan, and Ludwig Anzengruber.

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In Slovakia

Among people born in Slovakia, Ignatz Kolisch ranks 118 out of 357Before him are Ján Chryzostom Korec (1924), Lya De Putti (1897), Roland Jacobi (1893), Štefan Čambal (1908), Magdaléna Vášáryová (1948), and Emília Vášáryová (1942). After him are Jozef Miloslav Hurban (1817), János Csernoch (1852), Jozef Vengloš (1936), Ernest Nagel (1901), Ján Pivarník (1947), and Miroslav Lajčák (1963).

Among CHESS PLAYERS In Slovakia

Among chess players born in Slovakia, Ignatz Kolisch ranks 1After him are Adolf Schwarz (1836), Herman Steiner (1905), Max Weiss (1857), and Ľubomír Ftáčnik (1957).