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Ivan Franko

1856 - 1916

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Ivan Yakovych Franko (Ukrainian: Іван Якович Франко, pronounced [iˈwɑn ˈjɑkowɪtʃ frɐnˈkɔ]; 27 August 1856 – 28 May 1916) was a Ukrainian poet, writer, social and literary critic, journalist, interpreter, economist, political activist, doctor of philosophy, ethnographer, and the author of the first detective novels and modern poetry in the Ukrainian language. He was a political radical, and a founder of the socialist and nationalist movement in western Ukraine. In addition to his own literary work, he also translated the works of such renowned figures as William Shakespeare, Lord Byron, Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Dante Alighieri, Victor Hugo, Adam Mickiewicz, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Friedrich Schiller into Ukrainian. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ivan Franko has received more than 229,112 page views. His biography is available in 47 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 43 in 2019). Ivan Franko is the 631st most popular writer (up from 833rd in 2019), the 75th most popular biography from Ukraine (up from 91st in 2019) and the 16th most popular Ukrainian Writer.

Ivan Franko is most famous for his work as a Ukrainian poet, journalist, and translator. He is considered to be one of the fathers of modern Ukrainian literature.

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  • 230k

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  • 64.52

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  • 47

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.98

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.44

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Ivan Franko ranks 631 out of 5,755. Before him are Juana Inés de la Cruz, Hind bint Utbah, Nikolay Chernyshevsky, Lorenzo Da Ponte, Georg Büchner, and Robert Ludlum. After him are John Irving, Edward Bernays, Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy, Vasubandhu, Poliziano, and Carlo Gozzi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1856, Ivan Franko ranks 17. Before him are Napoléon, Prince Imperial, Emil Kraepelin, Georgi Plekhanov, Tongzhi Emperor, Bal Gangadhar Tilak, and Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg. After him are Svetozar Boroević, Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich of Russia, Robert Nivelle, John Singer Sargent, Eduard von Böhm-Ermolli, and Archduke Friedrich, Duke of Teschen. Among people deceased in 1916, Ivan Franko ranks 23. Before him are Otto of Bavaria, Charles de Foucauld, Natsume Sōseki, Karl Schwarzschild, Enrique Granados, and Elisabeth of Wied. After him are Charles Taze Russell, José Echegaray, Eduard Strauss, Max Reger, Émile Verhaeren, and Vilhelm Hammershøi.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Ivan Franko ranks 75 out of 1,083. Before him are Sonia Delaunay (1885), Anton Makarenko (1888), Andrey Yeryomenko (1892), Fanny Kaplan (1890), Baal Shem Tov (1700), and Volodymyr Zelensky (1978). After him are Georges Charpak (1924), Yaropolk I of Kiev (955), Karl Radek (1885), Vladimir Ivashko (1932), Anacharsis (-700), and Yitzhak Ben-Zvi (1884).

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Among WRITERS In Ukraine

Among writers born in Ukraine, Ivan Franko ranks 16. Before him are Ilya Ehrenburg (1891), Vasily Grossman (1905), Lesya Ukrainka (1871), Isaac Babel (1894), Irène Némirovsky (1903), and Anton Makarenko (1888). After him are Ze'ev Jabotinsky (1880), Clarice Lispector (1920), Bruno Schulz (1892), Nestor the Chronicler (1056), Gregory Skovoroda (1722), and Nikolay Nekrasov (1821).

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