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Jernej Kopitar

1780 - 1844

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Jernej Kopitar, also known as Bartholomeus Kopitar (21 August 1780 – 11 August 1844), was a Slovene linguist and philologist working in Vienna. He also worked as the Imperial censor for Slovene literature in Vienna. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jernej Kopitar has received more than 61,515 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia. Jernej Kopitar is the 1,155th most popular writer (up from 1,166th in 2019), the 19th most popular biography from Slovenia and the 3rd most popular Slovene Writer.

Jernej Kopitar was a Slovenian astronomer and mathematician who is most famous for his work on the orbit of planets.

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  • 62k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 66.17

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 28

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.60

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.91

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Jernej Kopitar ranks 1,155 out of 7,302. Before him are Mavro Orbini, Hugo Gernsback, Friedrich Maximilian Klinger, Chevalier d'Éon, Vivant Denon, and Ljudevit Gaj. After him are Comtessa de Dia, Ka'b ibn al-Ashraf, Bolesław Prus, Forough Farrokhzad, Alcman, and Rosalía de Castro.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1780, Jernej Kopitar ranks 10. Before him are Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner, Miloš Obrenović, Jules de Polignac, Charles Nodier, Pierre-Jean de Béranger, and Ranjit Singh. After him are Sacagawea, Mary Somerville, Karl Nesselrode, Bernardino Rivadavia, Georgios Karaiskakis, and Tudor Vladimirescu. Among people deceased in 1844, Jernej Kopitar ranks 14. Before him are Ivan Krylov, Ernest I, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, Charles Nodier, Flora Tristan, and Ching Shih. After him are Henri Gatien Bertrand, Grand Duchess Alexandra Nikolaevna of Russia, Princess Luisa Carlotta of Naples and Sicily, Carl Bernhard von Trinius, Princess Cecilia of Sweden, and Marie Harel.

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In Slovenia

Among people born in Slovenia, Jernej Kopitar ranks 19 out of 340. Before him are Janez Drnovšek (1950), Aleksander Čeferin (1967), Ivan Cankar (1876), Melania Trump (1970), Thomas Luckmann (1927), and Wilhelm von Tegetthoff (1827). After him are Hermann II, Count of Celje (1361), Carlos, Duke of Madrid (1848), Arkan (1952), Janez Janša (1958), Borut Pahor (1963), and Primož Trubar (1508).

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Among WRITERS In Slovenia

Among writers born in Slovenia, Jernej Kopitar ranks 3. Before him are France Prešeren (1800), and Ivan Cankar (1876). After him are Alma Karlin (1889), Sigismund von Herberstein (1486), Drago Jančar (1948), Edvard Kocbek (1904), Constantin von Wurzbach (1818), Stanko Vraz (1810), Louis Adamic (1898), Valentin Vodnik (1758), and Oton Župančič (1878).

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