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Kelemen Mikes

1690 - 1761

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Kelemen Mikes (1690–1761) was a Transylvanian-born Hungarian political figure and essayist, noted for his rebellious activities against the Habsburg monarchy. Mikes is referred to as the "Hungarian Goethe", made famous by his Letters from Turkey. With these, Mikes laid the foundations of Hungarian literary prose, and he is regarded as one of the first Hungarian prose authors. He was born in Zágon and grew up in Zabola (present-day Covasna County, Romania). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Kelemen Mikes has received more than 27,420 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Kelemen Mikes is the 14,094th most popular politician (down from 13,031st in 2019).

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

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    Languages Editions (L)

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    Effective Languages (L*)

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    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Kelemen Mikes ranks 14,094 out of 19,576. Before him are Oh Se-hoon, Take Ionescu, Helmuts Balderis, Haydée Santamaría, Iput II, and Bulan. After him are Daniel Morelon, Ivan Babushkin, Shuttarna III, Volodymyr Lytvyn, Gopala I, and Manuel Candamo.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1690, Kelemen Mikes ranks 14. Before him are Victor Amadeus I, Prince of Carignano, Joseph Johann Adam, Prince of Liechtenstein, Patrona Halil, Edward Low, Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel, and Peter Tordenskjold. After him are Christopher Middleton, Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai, and John Carteret, 2nd Earl Granville. Among people deceased in 1761, Kelemen Mikes ranks 22. Before him are Princess Elisabeth Albertine of Saxe-Hildburghausen, Giovanni Poleni, Louis George, Margrave of Baden-Baden, Johann Georg Pinsel, Balaji Baji Rao, and Princess Dorothea of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck.

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