HISTORIAN

Johann Weikhard von Valvasor

1641 - 1693

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Johann Weikhard Freiherr von Valvasor or Johann Weichard Freiherr von Valvasor (Slovene: Janez Vajkard Valvasor, pronounced [ˈʋáːlʋazɔɾ]) or simply Valvasor (baptised on 28 May 1641 – September or October 1693) was a natural historian and polymath from Carniola, present-day Slovenia, and a fellow of the Royal Society in London. He is known as a pioneer in the study of karst topography. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Johann Weikhard von Valvasor has received more than 98,481 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Johann Weikhard von Valvasor is the 133rd most popular historian (up from 136th in 2019), the 35th most popular biography from Slovenia (up from 76th in 2019) and the most popular Slovene Historian.

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Johann Weikhard von Valvasor ranks 133 out of 561. Before him are Afet İnan, Aban ibn Uthman, Johan Rudolph Thorbecke, Peter Burke, Emmanuel Todd, and François Furet. After him are Pierre de Bourdeille, seigneur de Brantôme, Michael Attaleiates, Hieronymus Wolf, Jan Assmann, Evagrius Scholasticus, and John Kinnamos.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1641, Johann Weikhard von Valvasor ranks 8. Before him are Christian Albert, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp, Tokugawa Ietsuna, Marie Casimire Louise de La Grange d'Arquien, Regnier de Graaf, Titus van Rijn, and Nehemiah Grew. After him are François-Michel le Tellier, Marquis de Louvois, Nicolaes Witsen, Menno van Coehoorn, Julius Francis, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg, Dositheus II of Jerusalem, and Robert Spencer, 2nd Earl of Sunderland. Among people deceased in 1693, Johann Weikhard von Valvasor ranks 9. Before him are Ulrika Eleonora of Denmark, Anne Marie Louise d'Orléans, Duchess of Montpensier, Willem Kalf, Ihara Saikaku, Nicolaes Maes, and Odoardo Farnese, Hereditary Prince of Parma. After him are John George II, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau, Elisabeth Hevelius, John de Britto, Laurent Cassegrain, Maria van Oosterwijck, and Johann Caspar Kerll.

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In Slovenia

Among people born in Slovenia, Johann Weikhard von Valvasor ranks 35 out of 340. Before him are Danilo Türk (1952), Margit Korondi (1932), Anton Ažbe (1862), Alma Karlin (1889), Anton Korošec (1872), and Nino Benvenuti (1938). After him are Jurij Vega (1754), Srečko Katanec (1963), Leon Rupnik (1880), Franc Rode (1934), Sigismund von Herberstein (1486), and Robert Golob (1967).

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Among HISTORIANS In Slovenia

Among historians born in Slovenia, Johann Weikhard von Valvasor ranks 1. After him are Janko Prunk (1942).

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