WRITER

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 101,143 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Kâtip Çelebi is the 1,403rd most popular writer (up from 1,470th in 2019), the 416th most popular biography from Türkiye (up from 506th in 2019) and the 36th most popular Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 100k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 59.06

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 29

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.80

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.32

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Tuhfetüʼl-kibar fı̂ esfariʼl-bihar
Naval History, History, Naval battles
Kâtip Çelebiʼden seçmeler
The balance of truth
Doctrines, Islam, Accessible book
Mizan ül-hakk
Early works to 1800, Islam
Kâtip Çelebi
Kashf al-ẓunūn ʻan asāmī al-kutub wa-al-funūn
Early works to 1800, Bibliography, Arabic literature

Page views of Kâtip Çelebis by language

Over the past year Kâtip Çelebi has had the most page views in the with 78,349 views, followed by English (15,748), and Arabic (9,970). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Kurdish (Sorani) (1,300.00%), Finnish (76.22%), and Swedish (56.25%)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Kâtip Çelebi ranks 1,403 out of 7,302Before him are César Vallejo, Sima Xiangru, Siegfried Lenz, Robert Bloch, Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues, and Korney Chukovsky. After him are Maj Sjöwall, Gavrila Derzhavin, Jaan Kross, Jules de Goncourt, Princess Isabelle of Orléans-Braganza, and Georg Heym.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1609, Kâtip Çelebi ranks 8Before him are John II Casimir Vasa, Raimondo Montecuccoli, Judith Leyster, Henrietta Maria of France, Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand of Austria, and Nicholas Francis, Duke of Lorraine. After him are Hezârfen Ahmed Çelebi, Charles II Gonzaga, Duke of Nevers, Giovanni Battista Salvi da Sassoferrato, Hanzade Sultan, Sophia Eleonore of Saxony, and Maria Gonzaga, Duchess of Montferrat. Among people deceased in 1657, Kâtip Çelebi ranks 7Before him are William Harvey, Bohdan Khmelnytsky, Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor, Frans Snyders, Balthasar van der Ast, and Clara Peeters. After him are Gustav Horn, Count of Pori, Jacob van Campen, Laura Mancini, Andrew Bobola, Nicole, Duchess of Lorraine, and Hayashi Razan.

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In Türkiye

Among people born in Türkiye, Kâtip Çelebi ranks 416 out of 1,347Before him are Henri Verneuil (1920), Metrodorus of Lampsacus (-331), Barış Manço (1943), Parrhasius (-500), Joe Strummer (1952), and Emine Erdoğan (1955). After him are E. M. Antoniadi (1870), Şahin Giray (1745), Bülent Ersoy (1952), Halide Edib Adıvar (1884), Soranus of Ephesus (98), and Fevzi Çakmak (1876).

Among WRITERS In Türkiye

Among writers born in Türkiye, Kâtip Çelebi ranks 36Before him are Yeghishe Charents (1897), John Tzetzes (1110), Aelius Aristides (117), Artemidorus (200), Callinus (-680), and Symeon the Metaphrast (900). After him are Hieronymus of Cardia (-390), George of Pisidia (580), Adnan Oktar (1956), Alexander Polyhistor (-100), Namık Kemal (1840), and Yaşar Kemal (1923).