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Kristjan Jaak Peterson

1801 - 1822

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Kristian Jaak Peterson (14 March [O.S. 2 March] 1801, Riga – 4 August [O.S. 23 July] 1822, Riga), also known as Christian Jacob Petersohn, was an Estonian poet, commonly regarded as a herald of Estonian national literature and the founder of modern Estonian poetry. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Kristjan Jaak Peterson has received more than 56,803 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia. Kristjan Jaak Peterson is the 2,973rd most popular writer (down from 2,904th in 2019), the 76th most popular biography from Latvia (down from 74th in 2019) and the 11th most popular Latvian Writer.

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  • 25

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.48

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  • 3.14

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Kristjan Jaak Peterson ranks 2,973 out of 5,755Before him are Cotton Mather, Robert G. Ingersoll, Roy Medvedev, Antal Szerb, Monteiro Lobato, and Bohuslav Balbín. After him are Janosch, Jan Arnošt Smoler, Charles Lamb, Amadou Hampâté Bâ, Heo Nanseolheon, and Douglas Preston.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1801, Kristjan Jaak Peterson ranks 49Before him are Infanta Isabel Maria of Braganza, Vincenzo Gioberti, Constantine, Prince of Hohenzollern-Hechingen, Charles Elliot, Jan Kalivoda, and Peter Wilhelm Lund. After him are Eugène Burnouf, Pedro Santana, Christian Dietrich Grabbe, Coenraad Johannes van Houten, Evangelos Damaskos, and Hippolyte Carnot. Among people deceased in 1822, Kristjan Jaak Peterson ranks 29Before him are Bathilde d'Orléans, Slimane of Morocco, Duke Eugen of Württemberg, Józef Wybicki, Hồ Xuân Hương, and Edward Daniel Clarke. After him are Pierre-François Bouchard, Johann Gottlob Theaenus Schneider, Uesugi Harunori, Frei Galvão, Abd al-Rahman al-Jabarti, and Rudolph Schadow.

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In Latvia

Among people born in Latvia, Kristjan Jaak Peterson ranks 76 out of 284Before him are Julie Wilhelmine Hagen-Schwarz (1824), Ivars Godmanis (1951), Jacob W. Davis (1831), Georg August Schweinfurth (1836), Wessel Freytag von Loringhoven (1899), and Karl Eichwald (1795). After him are Jānis Balodis (1881), Juris Hartmanis (1928), Jānis Rudzutaks (1887), Lina Stern (1878), Yeshayahu Leibowitz (1903), and Vilhelms Purvītis (1872).

Among WRITERS In Latvia

Among writers born in Latvia, Kristjan Jaak Peterson ranks 11Before him are Ferdynand Antoni Ossendowski (1876), Maria Skobtsova (1891), Barbara von Krüdener (1764), Aspazija (1865), Yury Tynyanov (1894), and Vizma Belševica (1931). After him are Krišjānis Barons (1835), Aleksandrs Čaks (1901), Zenta Mauriņa (1897), Garlieb Merkel (1769), Rūdolfs Blaumanis (1863), and Regīna Ezera (1930).