WRITER

Janusz Korczak

1878 - 1942

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Janusz Korczak, the pen name of Henryk Goldszmit (22 July 1878 or 1879 – 7 August 1942), was a Polish Jewish pediatrician, educator, children's author and pedagogue known as Pan Doktor ("Mr. Doctor") or Stary Doktor ("Old Doctor"). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Janusz Korczak has received more than 1,233,935 page views. His biography is available in 55 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 53 in 2019). Janusz Korczak is the 191st most popular writer (down from 170th in 2019), the 23rd most popular biography from Poland (down from 18th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Polish Writer.

Janusz Korczak was a Polish-Jewish educator and children's author. He is most famous for being the director of an orphanage in Warsaw, Poland.

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  • 55

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  • 9.58

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  • 2.65

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Notable Works

Ghetto Diary
1978
Kiedy znów będę mały
1950
Król Maciuś Pierwszy
1958
Voice for the child
Self-Help
A compilation of quotes from the famous doctor, writer, educator, and humanist and pioneer for the rights of the child who dedicated his life to helping the neglected Jewish and Catholic children of Poland
1999
Seul à seul avec Dieu, ou, Prières de ceux qui ne prient jamais
1991
Pamiętnik z getta
1980

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Janusz Korczak ranks 191 out of 7,302. Before him are Tove Jansson, Dale Carnegie, Murasaki Shikibu, Stanisław Lem, Lope de Vega, and Eckhart Tolle. After him are Lu Xun, Al-Masudi, Friedrich Hölderlin, Juvenal, Luís de Camões, and Roald Dahl.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1878, Janusz Korczak ranks 2. Before him is Lise Meitner. After him are Reza Shah, John B. Watson, Martin Buber, Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich of Russia, Pancho Villa, Werner von Blomberg, Gustav Stresemann, André Citroën, Pyotr Wrangel, and Lucien Febvre. Among people deceased in 1942, Janusz Korczak ranks 3. Before him are Stefan Zweig, and Reinhard Heydrich. After him are Robert Musil, Edith Stein, José Raúl Capablanca, Bronisław Malinowski, Anton Drexler, Jean Baptiste Perrin, Lucy Maud Montgomery, William G. Morgan, and Richard Willstätter.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Janusz Korczak ranks 23 out of 1,694. Before him are Marie Leszczyńska (1703), Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit (1686), Władysław Szpilman (1911), Wernher von Braun (1912), Erich Ludendorff (1865), and Wisława Szymborska (1923). After him are Lech Kaczyński (1949), Fedor von Bock (1880), Władysław IV Vasa (1595), Eric of Pomerania (1381), Isaac Bashevis Singer (1902), and Ernst Cassirer (1874).

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Among WRITERS In Poland

Among writers born in Poland, Janusz Korczak ranks 4. Before him are Günter Grass (1927), Adam Mickiewicz (1798), and Wisława Szymborska (1923). After him are Isaac Bashevis Singer (1902), Henryk Sienkiewicz (1846), Gerhart Hauptmann (1862), Andrzej Sapkowski (1948), Władysław Reymont (1867), Osip Mandelstam (1891), Olga Tokarczuk (1962), and Alfred Döblin (1878).

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