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Józef Czapski

1896 - 1993

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Józef Czapski (3 April 1896 – 12 January 1993) was a Polish artist, author, and critic, as well as an officer of the Polish Army. As a painter, he is notable for his membership in the Kapist movement, which was heavily influenced by Cézanne. Following the Polish Defensive War, he was made a prisoner of war by the Soviets and was among the very few officers to survive the Katyn massacre of 1940. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Józef Czapski has received more than 106,240 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Józef Czapski is the 2,629th most popular writer (up from 2,800th in 2019), the 324th most popular biography from Czechia (up from 339th in 2019) and the 35th most popular Czech Writer.

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  • 2.78

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Józef Czapski ranks 2,629 out of 7,302. Before him are Richard Wurmbrand, Neil Simon, Waldemar Bonsels, Orson Scott Card, Abraham ibn Daud, and Frederick Marryat. After him are Matthias Claudius, Hella Haasse, Tian Han, Eric Carle, Censorinus, and Tayeb Salih.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1896, Józef Czapski ranks 119. Before him are Léonide Massine, Erich Hückel, Fritz Heider, Anandamayi Ma, Richard Heidrich, and Carl Ludwig Siegel. After him are Máté Zalka, Prince Wolfgang of Hesse, Heimito von Doderer, John of Shanghai and San Francisco, Raymond Massey, and Johannes Kleiman. Among people deceased in 1993, Józef Czapski ranks 101. Before him are Sun Ra, Leo Löwenthal, Ugo Locatelli, Mario Evaristo, Anna Sten, and Richard Jordan. After him are Pierre Victor Auger, Guido Masetti, Chishū Ryū, John Tuzo Wilson, Henry Hazlitt, and Clarence Zener.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Józef Czapski ranks 324 out of 1,200. Before him are Marta Kubišová (1942), Christian Mayer (1719), Milan Baroš (1981), Karel Poborský (1972), Josef Jungmann (1773), and Count Gustav Kálnoky (1832). After him are Josef Bohuslav Foerster (1859), Vladislaus III, Duke of Bohemia (1160), Florian Leopold Gassmann (1729), Gabriel von Max (1840), Prince Frederick of Schaumburg-Lippe (1868), and Antonio Rosetti (1746).

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Among WRITERS In Czechia

Among writers born in Czechia, Józef Czapski ranks 35. Before him are Alois Jirásek (1851), Karel Hynek Mácha (1810), Vítězslav Nezval (1900), Alois Musil (1868), Karel Jaromír Erben (1811), and Josef Jungmann (1773). After him are Josef Škvorecký (1924), Petr Chelčický (1390), Fritz Mauthner (1849), Tom Stoppard (1937), Karel Havlíček Borovský (1821), and Karel Kryl (1944).

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