WRITER

Józef Ignacy Kraszewski

1812 - 1887

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Józef Ignacy Kraszewski (28 July 1812 – 19 March 1887) was a Polish novelist, journalist, historian, publisher, painter, and musician. Kraszewski wrote over 200 novels and several hundred novellas, short stories, and art reviews, making him the most prolific writer in the history of Polish literature and one of the most prolific in world literature. He is best known for his historical novels, including an epic series on the history of Poland, comprising twenty-nine historical novels; and for novels about peasant life, critical of feudalism and serfdom. His works have been described as liberal-democratic but not radical, and as proto-Positivist. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Józef Ignacy Kraszewski has received more than 82,709 page views. Her biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Józef Ignacy Kraszewski is the 2,200th most popular writer (up from 2,329th in 2019), the 500th most popular biography from Poland (up from 508th in 2019) and the 49th most popular Polish Writer.

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  • 55.52

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 28

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.82

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.72

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Stara baśń
1879
Historia prawdziwa o Petrku Właście, palatynie, którego zwano Duninem
Fiction
1956
Hrabina Cosel
Fiction, Translations into Russian
1947
Strzemieńczyk
Fiction
1959
Dwie królowe
Fiction
1957
Król chłopów
Fiction
1955

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Over the past year Józef Ignacy Kraszewski has had the most page views in the with 76,132 views, followed by English (12,344), and Russian (6,300). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Serbo-Croatian (68.30%), Swedish (67.18%), and Dutch (55.77%)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Józef Ignacy Kraszewski ranks 2,200 out of 7,302. Before her are Piotr Skarga, Elisabeth of Schönau, Theodore I, John Moschus, Kaj Munk, and Dacia Maraini. After her are Matthew Arnold, Thorbjørn Egner, Alexandre Exquemelin, Pauline von Metternich, Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko, and Methodius of Olympus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1812, Józef Ignacy Kraszewski ranks 31. Before her are Édouard Séguin, Georges-Charles de Heeckeren d'Anthès, Pierre de Decker, Ilija Garašanin, Countess Claudine Rhédey von Kis-Rhéde, and Zygmunt Krasiński. After her are Hendrik Conscience, Berthold Auerbach, Henry Wilson, Filippo Pacini, Melchora Aquino, and Augustus Pugin. Among people deceased in 1887, Józef Ignacy Kraszewski ranks 18. Before her are Juan, Count of Montizón, Jules Laforgue, Doc Holliday, Anandi Gopal Joshi, Jean-Baptiste Boussingault, and Paul Féval, père. After her are Carolyne zu Sayn-Wittgenstein, Luigi Jacobini, Agostino Depretis, Hippolyte Bayard, Hans von Marées, and William A. Wheeler.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Józef Ignacy Kraszewski ranks 500 out of 1,694. Before her are Alexander Imich (1903), Marek Grechuta (1945), Friedrich Wilhelm Kritzinger (1890), Zbigniew of Poland (1070), Vladimir Chelomey (1914), and Piotr Skarga (1536). After her are Zbigniew Preisner (1955), Maciej Stryjkowski (1547), Hellmuth Stieff (1901), Heinrich Wilhelm Dove (1803), Bogislaw X, Duke of Pomerania (1454), and Georg von der Marwitz (1856).

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Among WRITERS In Poland

Among writers born in Poland, Józef Ignacy Kraszewski ranks 49. Before her are Maria Konopnicka (1842), Cyprian Norwid (1821), Sholem Asch (1880), Stefania Wilczyńska (1886), Alexander Imich (1903), and Piotr Skarga (1536). After her are Maciej Stryjkowski (1547), Israel Joshua Singer (1893), George Adamski (1891), Stefan Żeromski (1864), Wanda Wasilewska (1905), and Lidia Zamenhof (1904).

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