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Józef Czapski

1896 - 1993

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Józef Czapski (3 April 1896 – 12 January 1993) was a Polish artist, author, and critic, as well as an officer of the Polish Army. As a painter, he is notable for his membership in the Kapist movement, which was heavily influenced by Cézanne. Following the Polish Defensive War, he was made a prisoner of war by the Soviets and was among the very few officers to survive the Katyn massacre of 1940. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Józef Czapski has received more than 99,665 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Józef Czapski is the 2,811th most popular writer (down from 2,282nd in 2019), the 339th most popular biography from Czechia (down from 259th in 2019) and the 35th most popular Czech Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Józef Czapski ranks 2,811 out of 5,755. Before him are Bo Carpelan, Marco Foscarini, Lucius Afranius, H.D., Jean Ray, and Miguel Torga. After him are Fatma Aliye Topuz, Giovanni Pontano, Leon Uris, Walter Pater, Francis Ponge, and Ouida.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1896, Józef Czapski ranks 123. Before him are Heimito von Doderer, Máté Zalka, Jessie Royce Landis, Ramón Franco, Na Hye-sok, and Teinosuke Kinugasa. After him are Maurice De Waele, Dmitry Dmitrievich Maksutov, Aimo Lahti, Jacques Duclos, Eduardo Lonardi, and Hubert Lanz. Among people deceased in 1993, Józef Czapski ranks 97. Before him are Monte Melkonian, Bruno Rossi, Deke Slayton, Juan Jesús Posadas Ocampo, Sebastiano Baggio, and Anna Sten. After him are Andrey Nikolayevich Tikhonov, Euronymous, Felice Borel, Godfrey Chitalu, Freya Stark, and Chishū Ryū.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Józef Czapski ranks 339 out of 973. Before him are Jan Železný (1966), Julius Francis, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg (1641), Soběslav II, Duke of Bohemia (1128), Sigfried Giedion (1888), Jana Brejchová (1940), and Vladimír Remek (1948). After him are František Čáp (1913), Jan Zajíc (1950), Charlotte of Schaumburg-Lippe (1864), Michael Czerny (1946), František Tomášek (1899), and Zdeněk Fierlinger (1891).

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Among WRITERS In Czechia

Among writers born in Czechia, Józef Czapski ranks 35. Before him are Karel Jaromír Erben (1811), Alois Jirásek (1851), Vítězslav Nezval (1900), Fritz Mauthner (1849), Petr Chelčický (1390), and Karel Havlíček Borovský (1821). After him are Bohuslav Balbín (1621), Josef Škvorecký (1924), Josef Jungmann (1773), Viktor Dyk (1877), Arnošt Lustig (1926), and Karel Píč (1920).

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