WRITER

Ivan Gundulić

1589 - 1638

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Dživo Franov Gundulić (Italian: Gianfrancesco Gondola; 8 January 1589 – 8 December 1638), better known today as Ivan Gundulić, was the most prominent Baroque poet from the Republic of Ragusa (now in Croatia). He is regarded as the Croatian national poet. His work embodies central characteristics of Roman Catholic Counter-Reformation: religious fervor, insistence on "vanity of this world" and zeal in opposition to "infidels". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ivan Gundulić has received more than 164,057 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia. Ivan Gundulić is the 959th most popular writer (down from 932nd in 2019), the 38th most popular biography from Croatia (down from 33rd in 2019) and the 4th most popular Croatian Writer.

Ivan Gundulić is most famous for his epic poem Osman, the first Croatian novel.

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  • 67.40

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 29

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.18

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.46

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Ivan Gundulić ranks 959 out of 7,302. Before him are Patrick White, Sin Saimdang, Alfred Kubin, George Steiner, Panait Istrati, and Al-Mutanabbi. After him are Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, Sulpicius Severus, Chiara Lubich, Percy Fawcett, Victorien Sardou, and B. Traven.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1589, Ivan Gundulić ranks 3. Before him are Feodor II of Russia, and Archduchess Maria Maddalena of Austria. After him are Margaret of Savoy, Vicereine of Portugal, John Casimir, Count Palatine of Kleeburg, 4th Dalai Lama, Peter Minuit, Domenico Fetti, John, Duke of Östergötland, Teimuraz I of Kakheti, Hercules Seghers, and Marko Krizin. Among people deceased in 1638, Ivan Gundulić ranks 4. Before him are Cornelius Jansen, Catherine of Sweden, Countess Palatine of Kleeburg, and Adriaen Brouwer. After him are François Leclerc du Tremblay, Amakusa Shirō, Johannes Althusius, Cyril Lucaris, John Harvard, Cornelis van Haarlem, Peter Minuit, and Francis Hyacinth, Duke of Savoy.

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In Croatia

Among people born in Croatia, Ivan Gundulić ranks 38 out of 700. Before him are Stjepan Radić (1871), Marko Marulić (1450), Franz von Suppé (1819), Margaret of Hungary (1242), Stjepan Bobek (1923), and Tomislav Ivić (1933). After him are Ivan Meštrović (1883), Franciscus Patricius (1529), Veljko Kadijević (1925), Dražan Jerković (1936), Siniša Mihajlović (1969), and Josip Skoblar (1941).

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Among WRITERS In Croatia

Among writers born in Croatia, Ivan Gundulić ranks 4. Before him are Dubravka Ugrešić (1949), Miroslav Krleža (1893), and Marko Marulić (1450). After him are Ljudevit Gaj (1809), Matthias Flacius (1520), Petar Zrinski (1621), Ödön von Horváth (1901), Slavenka Drakulić (1949), Marin Držić (1508), Tin Ujević (1891), and Niccolò Tommaseo (1802).

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