WRITER

Ljudevit Gaj

1809 - 1872

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Ljudevit Gaj (Croatian: [ʎûdeʋit ɡâːj]; born Ludwig Gay; Hungarian: Gáj Lajos; 8 August 1809 – 20 April 1872) was a Croatian linguist, politician, journalist and writer. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ljudevit Gaj has received more than 137,626 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Ljudevit Gaj is the 1,154th most popular writer (up from 1,228th in 2019), the 48th most popular biography from Croatia (down from 47th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Croatian Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 140k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 60.67

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 31

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.78

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.50

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Kratka osnova horvatsko-slavenskoga pravopisaňa, poleg mudroľubneh, narodneh i prigospodarneh temeľov i zrokov / od L. o G. =
Orthography and spelling, Serbo-Croatian language, Slavic languages
1983
Gajuša
Croatian Folk literature
1973
Gedanken zum Ausgleich Croatiens und Slavoniens
1864
Gedanken zum Ausgleich Croatiens und Slavoniens
1864
Kratka osnova horvatsko-slavenskogo pravopisaňa ... od L.o.G.
Serbo-Croatian language, Orthography and spelling
1983
Gajuša
Croatian Folk literature
1973
Kratka osnova horvatsko-slavenskoga pravopisaňa, poleg mudroľubneh, narodneh i prigospodarneh temeľov i zrokov / od L. o G. =
Orthography and spelling, Serbo-Croatian language, Slavic languages
1983

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Ljudevit Gaj ranks 1,154 out of 7,302. Before him are Lao She, Mavro Orbini, Hugo Gernsback, Friedrich Maximilian Klinger, Chevalier d'Éon, and Vivant Denon. After him are Jernej Kopitar, Comtessa de Dia, Ka'b ibn al-Ashraf, Bolesław Prus, Forough Farrokhzad, and Alcman.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1809, Ljudevit Gaj ranks 14. Before him are Georges-Eugène Haussmann, Albert Pike, Bruno Bauer, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Joseph Liouville, and William Ewart Gladstone. After him are Hermann Grassmann, Juliusz Słowacki, Prince Albert of Prussia, Bettino Ricasoli, James Glaisher, and Juan Donoso Cortés. Among people deceased in 1872, Ljudevit Gaj ranks 13. Before him are Benito Juárez, Franz Grillparzer, N. F. S. Grundtvig, William Webb Ellis, Stanisław Moniuszko, and William John Macquorn Rankine. After him are Aleksis Kivi, Immanuel Nobel, Zeng Guofan, Mary Somerville, Kawakami Gensai, and George Robert Gray.

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In Croatia

Among people born in Croatia, Ljudevit Gaj ranks 48 out of 700. Before him are Dražan Jerković (1936), Siniša Mihajlović (1969), Josip Skoblar (1941), Ante Gotovina (1955), Zoran Milanović (1966), and Josip Juraj Strossmayer (1815). After him are Pavle, Serbian Patriarch (1914), Francis, Duke of Teck (1837), Dražen Petrović (1964), Sylva Koscina (1933), Tereza Kesovija (1938), and Matthias Flacius (1520).

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Among WRITERS In Croatia

Among writers born in Croatia, Ljudevit Gaj ranks 5. Before him are Dubravka Ugrešić (1949), Miroslav Krleža (1893), Marko Marulić (1450), and Ivan Gundulić (1589). After him are Matthias Flacius (1520), Petar Zrinski (1621), Ödön von Horváth (1901), Slavenka Drakulić (1949), Marin Držić (1508), Tin Ujević (1891), and Niccolò Tommaseo (1802).

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