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Josip Runjanin

1821 - 1878

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Josip Runjanin (Serbian: Јосиф Руњанин, Josif Runjanin; 8 December 1821 – 2 February 1878) was a Croatian Serb soldier and composer from the Austrian Empire best known for composing the melody of Lijepa naša domovino, which later became the Croatian national anthem. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Josip Runjanin has received more than 65,186 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Josip Runjanin is the 858th most popular composer (down from 742nd in 2019), the 165th most popular biography from Croatia (down from 130th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Croatian Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Josip Runjanin ranks 858 out of 1,216Before him are Gérard Grisey, Stanley Myers, Moritz Hauptmann, Isabella Leonarda, Vatroslav Lisinski, and Lee Konitz. After him are Frederic Rzewski, Per Nørgård, Arnold Mendelssohn, Vincent Lübeck, Ralph Benatzky, and Heinrich Bach.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1821, Josip Runjanin ranks 59Before him are Karel Havlíček Borovský, Ion C. Brătianu, Louis Laurent Gabriel de Mortillet, Princess Catherine of Württemberg, Prince Adolf of Auersperg, and Nikolai Zaremba. After him are Georgi Sava Rakovski, Jens Jacob Asmussen Worsaae, James Longstreet, Henriëtte Ronner-Knip, Mikhail Petrashevsky, and Friedrich Kiel. Among people deceased in 1878, Josip Runjanin ranks 39Before him are Crawford Long, Karl Gutzkow, Mohammed bin Thani, Charles Cousin-Montauban, Comte de Palikao, George Cruikshank, and Cirilo Antonio Rivarola. After him are Dimitrios Voulgaris, Pyotr Vyazemsky, Kikuchi Yōsai, Princess Marie of Hesse and by Rhine, Philipp Johann Ferdinand Schur, and Eugène Belgrand.

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In Croatia

Among people born in Croatia, Josip Runjanin ranks 165 out of 589Before him are Branko Radičević (1824), Matteo Bartoli (1873), Vlado Milunić (1941), Ivica Olić (1979), Goran Višnjić (1972), and Vatroslav Lisinski (1819). After him are Mirko Cro Cop (1974), Franjo Rački (1828), Ante Žanetić (1936), Josip Filipović (1818), Ernesto Vidal (1921), and Ivo Lapenna (1909).

Among COMPOSERS In Croatia

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