WRITER

Jan Potocki

1761 - 1815

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Count Jan Potocki (Polish pronunciation: [ˈjan pɔˈtɔt͡skʲi]; 8 March 1761 – 23 December 1815) was a Polish nobleman, ethnologist, linguist, traveller and author of the Enlightenment period, whose life and exploits made him a celebrated figure in Poland. He is known chiefly for his picaresque novel, The Manuscript Found in Saragossa. Born into affluent Polish nobility, Potocki lived abroad from an early age and was primarily educated in Switzerland. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jan Potocki has received more than 204,984 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Jan Potocki is the 806th most popular writer (up from 933rd in 2019), the 169th most popular biography from Poland (up from 190th in 2019) and the 15th most popular Polish Writer.

Jan Potocki is most famous for his novel, The Manuscript Found in Saragossa.

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Notable Works

The Saragossa manuscript
1960
The manuscript found in Saragossa
Social life and customs, Translations into English, French fiction
1995
Manuscrit trouvé à Saragosse
Gothic fiction, Horror fiction
1958
Tales from the Saragossa Manuscript
1990
Voyages
Voyages and travels, Biography, Travelers
1980
Rukopisʹ, naĭdennai︠a︡ v Saragose
Adventure stories
1968

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Jan Potocki ranks 806 out of 7,302. Before him are Maya Angelou, Pietro Bembo, Jamal Khashoggi, Sarojini Naidu, Tatian, and Karl Harrer. After him are Thomas Hardy, Daniel Keyes, Magtymguly Pyragy, Max Frisch, Dobrica Ćosić, and John le Carré.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1761, Jan Potocki ranks 5. Before him are Pope Pius VIII, Selim III, Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly, and Marie Tussaud. After him are Christiaan Hendrik Persoon, William Carey, August von Kotzebue, Philippe Buonarroti, Jean-Charles Pichegru, Sineperver Sultan, and Louis-Léopold Boilly. Among people deceased in 1815, Jan Potocki ranks 7. Before him are Joachim Murat, Michel Ney, Sarah Baartman, Robert Fulton, Louis-Alexandre Berthier, and Franz Mesmer. After him are Emma, Lady Hamilton, Carsten Niebuhr, Guillaume Brune, José María Morelos, 9th Dalai Lama, and Smithson Tennant.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Jan Potocki ranks 169 out of 1,694. Before him are Robert Lewandowski (1988), Witold Lutosławski (1913), Bolesław Bierut (1892), Daniel Libeskind (1946), Władysław Anders (1892), and Carl Friedrich Goerdeler (1884). After him are Andrzej Duda (1972), Günther Anders (1902), Isabella Jagiellon (1519), John I Albert (1459), Albert Marth (1828), and Marian Rejewski (1905).

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Among WRITERS In Poland

Among writers born in Poland, Jan Potocki ranks 15. Before him are Władysław Reymont (1867), Osip Mandelstam (1891), Olga Tokarczuk (1962), Alfred Döblin (1878), Witold Gombrowicz (1904), and Christa Wolf (1929). After him are Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff (1788), B. Traven (1882), Johanna Schopenhauer (1766), Emil Ludwig (1881), Ernst Toller (1893), and Tadeusz Mazowiecki (1927).

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