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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 – d. 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Kâtip Çelebi has received more than 102,776 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Kâtip Çelebi is the 1,473rd most popular writer (down from 1,336th in 2019), the 508th most popular biography from Turkey (down from 459th in 2019) and the 36th most popular Turkish Writer.

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  • 100k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 57.86

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 27

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.17

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.48

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Kâtip Çelebi ranks 1,473 out of 5,755. Before him are Kuvempu, Chico Xavier, Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, Chiara Lubich, William Heinesen, and Khaled al-Asaad. After him are Christine Nöstlinger, Ion Creangă, Jack Vance, Ildefonsus, Károly Kerényi, and Akka Mahadevi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1609, Kâtip Çelebi ranks 9. Before him are Henrietta Maria of France, Judith Leyster, Raimondo Montecuccoli, Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand of Austria, Nicholas Francis, Duke of Lorraine, and Hezârfen Ahmed Çelebi. After him are Charles II Gonzaga, Duke of Nevers, Sophia Eleonore of Saxony, Maria Gonzaga, Duchess of Montferrat, Pierre-Paul Riquet, Paul Fleming, and Ernest Günther, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg. Among people deceased in 1657, Kâtip Çelebi ranks 7. Before him are William Harvey, Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor, Bohdan Khmelnytsky, Frans Snyders, Clara Peeters, and Gustav Horn, Count of Pori. After him are Nicole, Duchess of Lorraine, Laura Mancini, Balthasar van der Ast, Jacob van Campen, Andrew Bobola, and Robert Blake.

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In Turkey

Among people born in Turkey, Kâtip Çelebi ranks 508 out of 1,301. Before him are Cornelia Salonina (300), Quintus Smyrnaeus (400), Crates of Mallus (-200), Soranus of Ephesus (98), Meletius of Antioch (400), and Artabasdos (700). After him are Pelagia (400), Ardys of Lydia (-750), Nubar Pasha (1825), Eunapius (349), Joe Strummer (1952), and Mursili III (-1400).

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Among WRITERS In Turkey

Among writers born in Turkey, Kâtip Çelebi ranks 36. Before him are Aristophanes of Byzantium (-257), Aelius Aristides (117), Callinus (-680), Oribasius (325), Hieronymus of Cardia (-390), and Quintus Smyrnaeus (400). After him are Mehmet Akif Ersoy (1873), Yeghishe Charents (1897), Petros Markaris (1937), Symeon the New Theologian (949), Yaşar Kemal (1923), and Muhammad Said Ramadan al-Bouti (1929).

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