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Jan Kochanowski

1530 - 1584

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Jan Kochanowski (Polish: [ˈjan kɔxaˈnɔfskʲi]; 1530 – 22 August 1584) was a Polish Renaissance poet who wrote in Latin and Polish and established poetic patterns that would become integral to Polish literary language. He has been called the greatest Polish poet before Adam Mickiewicz (the latter, a leading Romantic writer) and one of the most influential Slavic poets prior to the 19th century.: 188 : 60  In his youth Kochanowski traveled to Italy, where he studied at the University of Padua, and to France. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jan Kochanowski has received more than 240,781 page views. His biography is available in 42 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 39 in 2019). Jan Kochanowski is the 1,260th most popular writer (up from 1,290th in 2019), the 269th most popular biography from Poland (up from 275th in 2019) and the 27th most popular Polish Writer.

Jan Kochanowski is most famous for his epic poem, the "Dziady" (translated as "Forefathers' Eve"), which is a long narrative poem about the Polish nobility and the history of Poland.

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    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.23

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.93

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Jan Kochanowski ranks 1,260 out of 7,302. Before him are Gaius Asinius Pollio, Irving Stone, Bâkî, Alexander Afanasyev, Clive Cussler, and Roland Topor. After him are Sharafkhan Bidlisi, Ichiyō Higuchi, Hans Urs von Balthasar, Cosmas of Prague, Lu Yu, and Kassia.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1530, Jan Kochanowski ranks 10. Before him are Uesugi Kenshin, Yasuke, Jean Nicot, Ruy López de Segura, Anastasia Romanovna, and Louis, Prince of Condé. After him are Johann Wilhelm, Duke of Saxe-Weimar, Christopher Báthory, Juan de Herrera, Starina Novak, Giambattista Benedetti, and Kuyucu Murad Pasha. Among people deceased in 1584, Jan Kochanowski ranks 6. Before him are Ivan the Terrible, William the Silent, Charles Borromeo, Francis, Duke of Anjou, and Bernal Díaz del Castillo. After him are Yi I, Balthasar Gérard, Mikołaj "the Red" Radziwiłł, Marcantonio Colonna, Mehmed II Giray, and Pieter Pourbus.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Jan Kochanowski ranks 269 out of 1,694. Before him are Magnus Hirschfeld (1868), Konstanty Kalinowski (1838), Gunderic (379), Henryk Szeryng (1918), Hugo Münsterberg (1863), and Robert Wiene (1873). After him are Hans Kammler (1901), Hans-Jürgen Stumpff (1889), Victor Klemperer (1881), Casimir II the Just (1138), Edward Gierek (1913), and Hermann Schwarz (1843).

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Among WRITERS In Poland

Among writers born in Poland, Jan Kochanowski ranks 27. Before him are Tadeusz Mazowiecki (1927), Arnold Zweig (1887), Bolesław Prus (1847), Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff (1848), Albert Barillé (1920), and Jan Długosz (1415). After him are Georg Heym (1887), Sławomir Mrożek (1930), Fritz Gerlich (1883), Jerzy Kosiński (1933), Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz (1885), and Avraham Stern (1907).

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