WRITER

Karel Jaromír Erben

1811 - 1870

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Karel Jaromír Erben (Czech pronunciation: [ˈkarɛl ˈjaromiːr ˈɛrbɛn]; 7 November 1811 – 21 November 1870) was a Czech folklorist and poet of the mid-19th century, best known for his collection Kytice, which contains poems based on traditional and folkloric themes. He also wrote Písně národní v Čechách ("Folk Songs of Bohemia") which contains 500 songs and Prostonárodní české písně a říkadla ("Czech Folk Songs and Nursery Rhymes"), a five-part book that brings together most of Czech folklore. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Karel Jaromír Erben has received more than 102,193 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Karel Jaromír Erben is the 2,560th most popular writer (down from 2,339th in 2019), the 311th most popular biography from Czechia (down from 285th in 2019) and the 33rd most popular Czech Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Karel Jaromír Erben ranks 2,560 out of 7,302Before him are Catulle Mendès, Raffi, Giraut de Bornelh, John Barth, David Lodge, and Ada Negri. After him are Edvard Kocbek, Nikoloz Baratashvili, Ouida, Ahmed Mohammed al-Maqqari, Janus Pannonius, and John Aubrey.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1811, Karel Jaromír Erben ranks 36Before him are Sengge Rinchen, Otto Hesse, Infante Sebastian of Portugal and Spain, Mohammad Afzal Khan, Raden Saleh, and Friedrich Anton Wilhelm Miquel. After him are Karl Gutzkow, Émilie de Villeneuve, Joseph Cafasso, Georg August Wallin, Peter Julian Eymard, and William Robert Grove. Among people deceased in 1870, Karel Jaromír Erben ranks 31Before him are Charles Auguste de Bériot, David Farragut, Justo José de Urquiza, Charles Xavier Thomas, Paul-Émile Botta, and Arthur Saint-Léon. After him are Victor de Broglie, Aasmund Olavsson Vinje, Cesare Pugni, Mykhailo Verbytskyi, Pieter Bleeker, and Charles Forbes René de Montalembert.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Karel Jaromír Erben ranks 311 out of 1,200Before him are Soběslav II, Duke of Bohemia (1128), Toyen (1902), Jiří Kylián (1947), Prince Ernst of Hohenberg (1904), Karl Fritzsch (1903), and Artur London (1915). After him are Petr Brandl (1668), Mirek Topolánek (1956), Anna Chromý (1940), Karel Kosík (1926), Victor Kugler (1900), and Margrave Andrew of Burgau (1558).

Among WRITERS In Czechia

Among writers born in Czechia, Karel Jaromír Erben ranks 33Before him are Josef Lada (1887), Pavel Kohout (1928), Alois Jirásek (1851), Karel Hynek Mácha (1810), Vítězslav Nezval (1900), and Alois Musil (1868). After him are Josef Jungmann (1773), Józef Czapski (1896), Josef Škvorecký (1924), Petr Chelčický (1390), Fritz Mauthner (1849), and Tom Stoppard (1937).