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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 83,674 page views. Her biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia. Józef Ignacy Kraszewski is the 2,336th most popular writer (up from 2,346th in 2019), the 508th most popular biography from Poland (down from 494th in 2019) and the 52nd most popular Polish Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Józef Ignacy Kraszewski ranks 2,336 out of 5,755. Before her are Frans G. Bengtsson, Izumi Shikibu, Henri Desgrange, Salvador de Madariaga, Constantine Manasses, and Waldemar Bonsels. After her are Antimachus, Boris Akunin, Luigi Pulci, Mouloud Feraoun, Théophile de Viau, and Clive Barker.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1812, Józef Ignacy Kraszewski ranks 33. Before her are Countess Claudine Rhédey von Kis-Rhéde, Ilija Garašanin, Henry Wilson, Zygmunt Krasiński, Augustus Pugin, and Berthold Auerbach. After her are Hendrik Conscience, Filippo Pacini, Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst, Robert Fortune, Duke Peter of Oldenburg, and Samuel Smiles. Among people deceased in 1887, Józef Ignacy Kraszewski ranks 21. Before her are Carolyne zu Sayn-Wittgenstein, Anandi Gopal Joshi, Hippolyte Bayard, Paul Féval, père, Jean-Baptiste Boussingault, and Ditlev Gothard Monrad. After her are William A. Wheeler, Agostino Depretis, Hans von Marées, Joseph Whitworth, J. C. Jacobsen, and Moritz Wagner.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Józef Ignacy Kraszewski ranks 508 out of 1,454. Before her are Jacek Malczewski (1854), Richard Thomalla (1903), Myechyslaw Hryb (1938), Walther von Lüttwitz (1859), Count Kasimir Felix Badeni (1846), and Bogislaw X, Duke of Pomerania (1454). After her are Kuno Fischer (1824), Paweł Pawlikowski (1957), Lidia Zamenhof (1904), Duke Eugen of Württemberg (1788), Hans Hellmut Kirst (1914), and Johann Gottlieb Goldberg (1727).

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Among WRITERS In Poland

Among writers born in Poland, Józef Ignacy Kraszewski ranks 52. Before her are Izabela Czartoryska (1746), Georg Heym (1887), Stanisław Przybyszewski (1868), Sholem Asch (1880), Wanda Wasilewska (1905), and Stefan Żeromski (1864). After her are Lidia Zamenhof (1904), Hans Hellmut Kirst (1914), Tadeusz Różewicz (1921), Uri Orlev (1931), Isaac Deutscher (1907), and Ignacy Krasicki (1735).

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