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Josip Runjanin

1821 - 1878

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Josip Runjanin (8 December 1821 – 20 January 1878), born Josif Runjanin (Serbian Cyrillic: Јосиф Руњанин), was an Austrian career military officer, politician and composer of Croat origin best known for composing the melody of the Croatian national anthem, Lijepa naša domovino ("Our Beautiful Homeland"), in 1846. Runjanin received his education in Vinkovci and later in Sremski Karlovci. As a young man, he served in the Imperial Austrian Army as a cadet in the town of Glina, along the Military Frontier with the Ottoman Empire. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Josip Runjanin has received more than 69,832 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Josip Runjanin is the 954th most popular composer (down from 857th in 2019), the 206th most popular biography from Croatia (down from 165th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Croatian Composer.

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    Languages Editions (L)

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  • 2.34

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Josip Runjanin ranks 954 out of 1,451. Before him are Felice Anerio, Napoléon Henri Reber, Chiquinha Gonzaga, Italo Montemezzi, Louis James Alfred Lefébure-Wély, and Guy Ropartz. After him are R. Murray Schafer, Felix Draeseke, Johann Adolf Scheibe, Adolf Bernhard Marx, Juhan Aavik, and Alexei Lvov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1821, Josip Runjanin ranks 67. Before him are Prince Adolf of Auersperg, Octave Feuillet, Georgi Sava Rakovski, Antonio Ciseri, Infanta Isabel Fernanda of Spain, and Aleksey Pisemsky. After him are Mikhail Petrashevsky, Archduke Friedrich of Austria, Jane Wilde, Leopold III, Prince of Lippe, Michel Carré, and Jens Jacob Asmussen Worsaae. Among people deceased in 1878, Josip Runjanin ranks 43. Before him are Andreas von Ettingshausen, Anna Sewell, George Cruikshank, Cirilo Antonio Rivarola, Crawford Long, and Philipp Johann Ferdinand Schur. After him are Eugène Belgrand, August Heinrich Petermann, Dimitrios Voulgaris, Adolf Fredrik Lindblad, Pyotr Vyazemsky, and Fabre Geffrard.

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In Croatia

Among people born in Croatia, Josip Runjanin ranks 206 out of 700. Before him are Aljoša Asanović (1965), Lino Červar (1950), Andrija Kačić Miošić (1704), Ivo Vojnović (1857), Kićo Slabinac (1944), and Luka Peruzović (1952). After him are Nenad Bjelica (1971), Blanka Vlašić (1983), Rajko Grlić (1947), Josip Filipović (1818), Petar Radaković (1937), and Mirko Novosel (1938).

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Among COMPOSERS In Croatia

Among composers born in Croatia, Josip Runjanin ranks 6. Before him are Franz von Suppé (1819), Jakov Gotovac (1895), Luigi Dallapiccola (1904), Ivan Zajc (1832), and Vatroslav Lisinski (1819). After him are Krešimir Baranović (1894).

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