RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Jakub Wujek

1541 - 1597

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Jakub Wujek (1541 – 27 April 1597) was a Polish Jesuit, religious writer, Doctor of Theology, Vice-Chancellor of the Vilnius Academy and translator of the Bible into Polish. He is well-known for his translation of the Bible into Polish: the Wujek Bible. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jakub Wujek has received more than 29,154 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia. Jakub Wujek is the 2,568th most popular religious figure (down from 2,353rd in 2019), the 955th most popular biography from Poland (down from 912th in 2019) and the 48th most popular Polish Religious Figure.

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  • 3.21

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Jakub Wujek ranks 2,568 out of 3,187. Before him are Saud Al-Shuraim, Manuel González García, Richard de Bury, Georg von Kopp, Duraisamy Simon Lourdusamy, and Severino Poletto. After him are László Kovács, Raúl Eduardo Vela Chiriboga, Eugenio Dal Corso, Anton Josef Gruscha, Mullah Krekar, and Jan Pieter Schotte.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1541, Jakub Wujek ranks 10. Before him are Abu Marwan Abd al-Malik I Saadi, Pierre Charron, Johann Bauhin, Hypatius Pociej, John Leonardi, and Philip II, Landgrave of Hesse-Rheinfels.  Among people deceased in 1597, Jakub Wujek ranks 22. Before him are Luís Fróis, Prospero Fontana, Princess Elizabeth of Sweden, Lucas van Valckenborch, Klaus Fleming, and Fernando de Herrera.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Jakub Wujek ranks 955 out of 1,694. Before him are Andrew Golota (1968), Wojciech Fibak (1952), Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz (1959), Alfred Stock (1876), Gustav Neumann (1838), and Ursula Happe (1926). After him are Igor Newerly (1903), Stanisław Kowalski (1910), Erwin Geschonneck (1906), Michalina Wisłocka (1921), Józef Szmidt (1935), and Paweł Huelle (1957).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In Poland

Among religious figures born in Poland, Jakub Wujek ranks 48. Before him are Frederick Jagiellon (1468), Aleksander Kakowski (1862), Stanislaus Papczyński (1631), Zbigniew Oleśnicki (1389), Zygmunt Gorazdowski (1845), and Karolina Kózka (1898). After him are Georg Sterzinsky (1936), Kazimierz Nycz (1950), Marek Jędraszewski (1949), Adam Kozłowiecki (1911), Konrad Krajewski (1963), and Stanisław Nagy (1921).

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