WRITER

Imre Madách

1823 - 1864

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Imre Madách de Sztregova et Kelecsény (20 January 1823 – 5 October 1864) was a Hungarian aristocrat, writer, poet, lawyer and politician. His major work is The Tragedy of Man (Az ember tragédiája, 1861). It is a dramatic poem approximately 4000 lines long, which elaborates on ideas comparable to Goethe's Faust and Milton's Paradise Lost. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Imre Madách has received more than 51,086 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Imre Madách is the 3,206th most popular writer (down from 2,769th in 2019), the 102nd most popular biography from Slovakia (down from 83rd in 2019) and the 7th most popular Slovak Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 51k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 52.35

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 27

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.56

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.04

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Madách Imre összes levelei
Ember tragédiája
The tragedy of man
Accessible book
Az ember tragédiája
Facsimiles, Hungarian Manuscripts, Manuscripts
Madách Imre válogatott művei
Az ember tragédiája

Page views of Imre Madáches by language

Over the past year Imre Madách has had the most page views in the with 47,146 views, followed by English (7,367), and Slovak (1,927). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Chinese (12,600.00%), Swedish (71.94%), and Basque (71.43%)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Imre Madách ranks 3,206 out of 7,302Before him are Caspar Barlaeus, Giovanni Battista Giraldi, Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian, Jim Carroll, Maria Wirtemberska, and Peter Benchley. After him are Adam of Saint Victor, Corippus, Joan Brossa, Lady Caroline Lamb, Nodira, and Jean Joseph Marie Amiot.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1823, Imre Madách ranks 44Before him are Sanford Robinson Gifford, Karl Schenk, Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach, Alfred Stevens, Jacques-Nicolas Lemmens, and Sophie Adlersparre. After him are Paul Janet, José María Iglesias, Schuyler Colfax, Ivan Aksakov, Jules Émile Planchon, and Count Richard Belcredi. Among people deceased in 1864, Imre Madách ranks 40Before him are Robert Torrens, Alexandre Calame, Pedro Santana, Luke Howard, Archduke Louis of Austria, and Nassau William Senior. After him are George M. Dallas, Sakuma Shōzan, Charles Julien Brianchon, Johann Lukas Schönlein, Franz Wilhelm Junghuhn, and Simon von Stampfer.

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In Slovakia

Among people born in Slovakia, Imre Madách ranks 102 out of 418Before him are János Pálffy (1664), Emília Vášáryová (1942), Matthias Bel (1684), Václav Ježek (1923), Viliam Široký (1902), and Titus Buberník (1933). After him are Ladislav Jurkemik (1953), Juraj Herz (1934), Kálmán Mikszáth (1847), Magdaléna Vášáryová (1948), Géza von Radványi (1907), and Imre Németh (1917).

Among WRITERS In Slovakia

Among writers born in Slovakia, Imre Madách ranks 7Before him are Pavel Jozef Šafárik (1795), Tibor Sekelj (1912), Ľudovít Štúr (1815), Vladimír Clementis (1902), Bálint Balassi (1554), and Pavol Országh Hviezdoslav (1849). After him are Kálmán Mikszáth (1847), Alexander Dukhnovych (1803), Jozef Miloslav Hurban (1817), Lajos Kassák (1887), Janko Matúška (1821), and Janko Kráľ (1822).