WRITER

Laza Kostić

1841 - 1910

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Lazar Kostić (Serbian Cyrillic: Лазар Костић; 12 February 1841 – 27 November 1910) was a Serbian poet, prose writer, lawyer, aesthetician, journalist, publicist, and politician who is considered to be one of the greatest minds of Serbian literature. Kostić wrote around 150 lyrics, 20 epic poems, three dramas, one monograph, several essays, short stories, and a number of articles. Kostić promoted the study of English literature and together with Jovan Andrejević-Joles was one of the first to begin the systematic translation of the works of William Shakespeare into the Serbian language. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Laza Kostić has received more than 108,704 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Laza Kostić is the 3,743rd most popular writer (down from 3,641st in 2019), the 198th most popular biography from Serbia (down from 171st in 2019) and the 17th most popular Serbian Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 110k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 50.96

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.63

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.12

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Maksim Crnojević
1872
Knjiga o Zmaju
Criticism and interpretation
1984
Pesme
1969
O Zmaju
Biography, Criticism and interpretation, Poets, Serbian
1989
Pletisanke
1968
Pesme
Serbian poetry
1909

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Over the past year Laza Kostić has had the most page views in the with 43,222 views, followed by English (14,604), and Croatian (2,939). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Georgian (60.65%), Greek (57.46%), and Serbo-Croatian (38.06%)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Laza Kostić ranks 3,743 out of 7,302. Before him are Ernst Jandl, Jules Janin, Théophile Thoré-Bürger, Oton Župančič, Johannes Linnankoski, and Henry Bataille. After him are Giuseppe Gioachino Belli, Gabriel Chevallier, Tadeusz Konwicki, Mykola Bazhan, Hendrik Willem van Loon, and Luigi Capuana.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1841, Laza Kostić ranks 69. Before him are Adolfo Farsari, Philipp Spitta, Carl Robert Jakobson, Andrejs Pumpurs, John Murray, and Federico Zandomeneghi. After him are Carl Tausig, Evelyn Baring, 1st Earl of Cromer, John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher, Paul Eyschen, Antonio Pacinotti, and Carl Graebe. Among people deceased in 1910, Laza Kostić ranks 71. Before him are Friedrich Daniel von Recklinghausen, Gustav Adolf von Götzen, Knut Ångström, Giovanni Passannante, Kurd Lasswitz, and Julien Dupré. After him are Andrea Costa, Fredrik von Otter, Édouard Colonne, Vera Komissarzhevskaya, Julius Petersen, and Pedro Montt.

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In Serbia

Among people born in Serbia, Laza Kostić ranks 198 out of 661. Before him are Vladica Kovačević (1940), Milena Pavlović-Barili (1909), Dejan Bodiroga (1973), Đorđe Vujadinović (1909), Borisav Stanković (1876), and Svetlana Bojković (1947). After him are Vladimir Jugović (1969), Zoran Slavnić (1949), Stevan Sremac (1855), Darko Kovačević (1973), Jelena Karleuša (1978), and Dušan Kovačević (1948).

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Among WRITERS In Serbia

Among writers born in Serbia, Laza Kostić ranks 17. Before him are Aleksandar Tišma (1924), Isidora Sekulić (1877), Mika Antić (1932), Laza Lazarević (1851), Jovan Sterija Popović (1806), and Borisav Stanković (1876). After him are Stevan Sremac (1855), Dušan Kovačević (1948), Milovan Glišić (1847), Jovan Rajić (1726), Charles Simic (1938), and Svetlana Velmar-Janković (1933).

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