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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 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 161,111 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Jan Karol Chodkiewicz is the 381st most popular military personnel (up from 477th in 2019), the 27th most popular biography from Lithuania (up from 31st 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 381 out of 1,468. Before him are Bronislav Kaminski, Alexander Samsonov, Erich Kempka, Usama ibn Zayd, Horatius Cocles, and Pierre-Charles Villeneuve. After him are Georg-Hans Reinhardt, La Hire, Xiahou Yuan, Omar Pasha, Georges Picquart, and Günther Rall.

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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, Christian I, Elector of Saxony, Maximilien de Béthune, Duke of Sully, Thomas Cavendish, Anton Praetorius, Juan Sánchez Cotán, and Domenico Tintoretto. 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, Antoine de Montchrestien, Maria Christina, Princess of Transylvania, Johann Arndt, Ambrosius Bosschaert, and Catherine Stenbock.

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In Lithuania

Among people born in Lithuania, Jan Karol Chodkiewicz ranks 27 out of 287. Before him are Marija Gimbutas (1921), Vytautas Landsbergis (1932), Nikolai Ostrovsky (1904), Valdas Adamkus (1926), Emilia Plater (1806), and Algirdas Brazauskas (1932). After him are Wilfrid Voynich (1865), Isaac Levitan (1860), Gabriel Narutowicz (1865), Dalia Grybauskaitė (1956), Sigismund Kęstutaitis (1365), and Friedrich Wilhelm Argelander (1799).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Lithuania

Among military personnels born in Lithuania, Jan Karol Chodkiewicz ranks 1. After him are Stanisław Bułak-Bałachowicz (1883), Ieronim Uborevich (1896), Maciej Sulkiewicz (1865), and Yakov Smushkevich (1902).

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