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Jan Lechoń

1899 - 1956

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Leszek Józef Serafinowicz (pen name: Jan Lechoń; 13 March 1899 – 8 June 1956) was a Polish poet, literary and theater critic, diplomat, and co-founder of the Skamander literary movement and the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jan Lechoń has received more than 34,965 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Jan Lechoń is the 5,051st most popular writer (down from 4,688th in 2019), the 981st most popular biography from Poland (down from 865th in 2019) and the 129th most popular Polish Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Jan Lechoń ranks 5,051 out of 5,755Before him are Atis Kronvalds, Joseph Victor von Scheffel, Alain Decaux, Jonathan Stroud, Herberto Hélder, and Robert J. Sawyer. After him are Alan Ayckbourn, Sándor Bródy, Aquilino Ribeiro, Mehmet Emin Yurdakul, Wilhelm Geiger, and James Hogg.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1899, Jan Lechoń ranks 228Before him are Alfred Mosher Butts, Ilse Bing, Lyman Lemnitzer, Gregory Breit, Hendrik Marsman, and John Qualen. After him are Elisabeth Langgässer, Bo Lindman, Neil Hamilton, Ian Keith, Guy Butler, and Renato Sáinz. Among people deceased in 1956, Jan Lechoń ranks 161Before him are Pelageya Shajn, Henry Nicholas Ridley, Theodor Pallady, Werner Haas, Augustin Chantrel, and Frank Brangwyn. After him are Lajos Asztalos, Manilal Gandhi, Babe Didrikson Zaharias, Frederick G. Donnan, Robert Newton, and Juan José de Amézaga.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Jan Lechoń ranks 981 out of 1,454Before him are Gerard Cieślik (1927), Tadeusz Banachiewicz (1882), Henryk Grossman (1881), Barbara Sobotta (1936), Miron Białoszewski (1922), and Lucyna Winnicka (1928). After him are Halszka Osmólska (1930), Benjamin Mazar (1906), Michał Żebrowski (1972), Adam Kozłowiecki (1911), Erich Hecke (1887), and Manfred Stolpe (1936).

Among WRITERS In Poland

Among writers born in Poland, Jan Lechoń ranks 129Before him are Maria Pawlikowska-Jasnorzewska (1891), Halina Poświatowska (1935), Eva Kotchever (1891), Jan Twardowski (1915), Klabund (1890), and Miron Białoszewski (1922). After him are Julia Hartwig (1921), Lina Morgenstern (1830), Antoni Lange (1862), Kazimierz Brandys (1916), Christoph Hein (1944), and Peter Hacks (1928).