MILITARY PERSONNEL

Jan Karol Chodkiewicz

1560 - 1621

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Jan Karol Chodkiewicz (Lithuanian: Jonas Karolis Chodkevičius; c.1561 – 24 September 1621) was a Polish–Lithuanian military commander of the Grand Ducal Lithuanian Army, who was from 1601 Field Hetman of Lithuania, and from 1605 Grand Hetman of Lithuania. He was one of the most prominent noblemen and military commanders of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth of his era. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jan Karol Chodkiewicz has received more than 176,534 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Jan Karol Chodkiewicz is the 389th most popular military personnel (down from 381st in 2019), the 29th most popular biography from Lithuania (down from 27th in 2019) and the most popular Lithuanian Military Personnel.

Jan Karol Chodkiewicz is most famous for his victory over the Swedish army at the Battle of Kircholm in 1605.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Jan Karol Chodkiewicz ranks 389 out of 2,058. Before him are Cao Ren, John Franklin, Otto von Below, Lazare Hoche, Nikolaus von Falkenhorst, and David Elazar. After him are Vasily Sokolovsky, Eduard von Böhm-Ermolli, Bronislav Kaminski, Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis, Gan Ning, and Li Mu.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1560, Jan Karol Chodkiewicz ranks 5. Before him are Elizabeth Báthory, Annibale Carracci, Thomas Harriot, and Jacobus Arminius. After him are Gaspard Bauhin, Thomas Cavendish, Maximilien de Béthune, Duke of Sully, Christian I, Elector of Saxony, Juan Sánchez Cotán, Anton Praetorius, and Charles I, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld. Among people deceased in 1621, Jan Karol Chodkiewicz ranks 10. Before him are Albert VII, Archduke of Austria, Thomas Harriot, Cosimo II de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, Michael Praetorius, and Şehzade Mehmed. After him are Cristofano Allori, Catherine Stenbock, Maria Christina, Princess of Transylvania, Antoine de Montchrestien, Ambrosius Bosschaert, and Johann Arndt.

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In Lithuania

Among people born in Lithuania, Jan Karol Chodkiewicz ranks 29 out of 328. Before him are Marija Gimbutas (1921), Hacı I Giray (1397), Andrew Schally (1926), Vytautas Landsbergis (1932), Friedrich Wilhelm Argelander (1799), and Algirdas Brazauskas (1932). After him are Moshe Arens (1925), Gabriel Narutowicz (1865), Sigismund Kęstutaitis (1365), Gitanas Nausėda (1964), Isaac Levitan (1860), and Skirgaila (1354).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Lithuania

Among military personnels born in Lithuania, Jan Karol Chodkiewicz ranks 1. After him are Nina Schenk Gräfin von Stauffenberg (1913), Stanisław Bułak-Bałachowicz (1883), Iosif Igelström (1737), Maciej Sulkiewicz (1865), Ieronim Uborevich (1896), Yakov Smushkevich (1902), and Silvestras Žukauskas (1860).

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