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Kristijonas Donelaitis

1714 - 1780

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Kristijonas Donelaitis (Latin: Christian Donalitius; 1 January 1714 – 18 February 1780) was a Prussian Lithuanian poet and Lutheran pastor. He lived and worked in Lithuania Minor, a territory in the Kingdom of Prussia, that had a sizable Lithuanian-speaking minority. He wrote the first classic Lithuanian language poem, The Seasons (Lithuanian: Metai), which became one of the principal works of Lithuanian poetry. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Kristijonas Donelaitis has received more than 98,421 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Kristijonas Donelaitis is the 2,384th most popular writer (down from 2,144th in 2019), the 867th most popular biography from Russia (down from 781st in 2019) and the 105th most popular Russian Writer.

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Notable Works

Die Jahreszeiten
1966
Metai ir Pasakėčios
1994
Raštai
Lithuanian Authors, Biography
1977
Metai
1940
Littauische Dichtungen nach den Königsberger Handschriften
1869
Jau saulele vel ..
Lithuanian literature
1963

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Kristijonas Donelaitis ranks 2,384 out of 7,302. Before him are Rutilius Taurus Aemilianus Palladius, Aagje Deken, Aino Kallas, Agathangelos, Taliesin, and Ana María Matute. After him are Benoît de Sainte-Maure, Nikolay Kostomarov, Mohammed Abdullah Hassan, Émile Augier, André Frossard, and Charles Berlitz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1714, Kristijonas Donelaitis ranks 13. Before him are Alaungpaya, Niccolò Jommelli, Jean-Baptiste Pigalle, Nikolaus I, Prince Esterházy, Pontiac, and Duke Anthony Ulrich of Brunswick. After him are Princess Friederike Luise of Prussia, Princess Anne Charlotte of Lorraine, Kosmas the Aetolian, George Whitefield, César-François Cassini de Thury, and Emer de Vattel. Among people deceased in 1780, Kristijonas Donelaitis ranks 13. Before him are Jacques-Germain Soufflot, Francesco III d'Este, Duke of Modena, Duchess Luise of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Charles I, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Victor Amadeus II, Prince of Carignano, and Johann Ludwig Krebs. After him are Ernest Frederick III, Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen, Hiraga Gennai, Luis Egidio Meléndez, William Blackstone, Marie Anne de Vichy-Chamrond, marquise du Deffand, and Princess Elisabeth Friederike Sophie of Brandenburg-Bayreuth.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Kristijonas Donelaitis ranks 867 out of 3,761. Before him are Pavel Tretyakov (1832), Vladimir Ilyushin (1927), Semyon Kurkotkin (1917), Aino Kallas (1878), Anatoli Bugorski (1942), and Fyodor Rostopchin (1763). After him are Marfa Sobakina (1552), Anatoly Lukyanov (1930), Nikolay Kostomarov (1817), Maria Sharapova (1987), Vladimir Fock (1898), and Princess Maria Maximilianovna of Leuchtenberg (1841).

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Among WRITERS In Russia

Among writers born in Russia, Kristijonas Donelaitis ranks 105. Before him are Konstantin Balmont (1867), Andrey Kurkov (1961), Sergei Nilus (1862), Leah Goldberg (1911), Andrei Voznesensky (1933), and Aino Kallas (1878). After him are Nikolay Kostomarov (1817), Noor Inayat Khan (1914), Andrey Kurbsky (1528), Sergey Aksakov (1791), Eeva Kilpi (1928), and Şihabetdin Märcani (1818).

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