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Kâtip Çelebi

1609 - 1657

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Kâtip Çelebi (كاتب جلبي) or Ḥājjī Khalīfa (حاجي خليفة) (1017 AH/1609 AD – 1068 AH/1657 AD) was a Turkish polymath and author of the 17th-century Ottoman Empire. He compiled a vast universal bibliographic encyclopaedia of books and sciences, the Kaşf az-Zunūn, and wrote many treatises and essays. “A deliberate and impartial historian… of extensive learning”, Franz Babinger hailed him "the greatest encyclopaedist among the Ottomans." Writing with equal facility in Alsina-i Thalātha—the three languages of Ottoman imperial administration, Arabic, Turkish and Persian – principally in Arabic and then in Turkish, his native tongue— he also collaborated on translations from French and Latin. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Kâtip Çelebi has received more than 112,520 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Kâtip Çelebi is the 1,403rd most popular writer (up from 1,470th in 2019), the 416th most popular biography from Türkiye (up from 506th in 2019) and the 36th most popular Turkish Writer.

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    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.80

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  • 3.32

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Kâtip Çelebi ranks 1,403 out of 7,302. Before him are César Vallejo, Sima Xiangru, Siegfried Lenz, Robert Bloch, Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues, and Korney Chukovsky. After him are Maj Sjöwall, Gavrila Derzhavin, Jaan Kross, Jules de Goncourt, Princess Isabelle of Orléans-Braganza, and Georg Heym.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1609, Kâtip Çelebi ranks 8. Before him are John II Casimir Vasa, Raimondo Montecuccoli, Judith Leyster, Henrietta Maria of France, Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand of Austria, and Nicholas Francis, Duke of Lorraine. After him are Hezârfen Ahmed Çelebi, Charles II Gonzaga, Duke of Nevers, Giovanni Battista Salvi da Sassoferrato, Hanzade Sultan, Sophia Eleonore of Saxony, and Maria Gonzaga, Duchess of Montferrat. Among people deceased in 1657, Kâtip Çelebi ranks 7. Before him are William Harvey, Bohdan Khmelnytsky, Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor, Frans Snyders, Balthasar van der Ast, and Clara Peeters. After him are Gustav Horn, Count of Pori, Jacob van Campen, Laura Mancini, Andrew Bobola, Nicole, Duchess of Lorraine, and Hayashi Razan.

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In Türkiye

Among people born in Türkiye, Kâtip Çelebi ranks 416 out of 1,347. Before him are Henri Verneuil (1920), Metrodorus of Lampsacus (-331), Barış Manço (1943), Parrhasius (-500), Joe Strummer (1952), and Emine Erdoğan (1955). After him are E. M. Antoniadi (1870), Şahin Giray (1745), Bülent Ersoy (1952), Halide Edib Adıvar (1884), Soranus of Ephesus (98), and Fevzi Çakmak (1876).

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Among WRITERS In Türkiye

Among writers born in Türkiye, Kâtip Çelebi ranks 36. Before him are Yeghishe Charents (1897), John Tzetzes (1110), Aelius Aristides (117), Artemidorus (200), Callinus (-680), and Symeon the Metaphrast (900). After him are Hieronymus of Cardia (-390), George of Pisidia (580), Adnan Oktar (1956), Alexander Polyhistor (-100), Namık Kemal (1840), and Yaşar Kemal (1923).

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