MILITARY PERSONNEL

Maurice Benyovszky

1746 - 1786

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Count Maurice Benyovszky de Benyó et Urbanó (Hungarian: Benyovszky Máté Móric Mihály Ferenc Szerafin Ágost; Polish: Maurycy Beniowski; Slovak: Móric Beňovský; 20 September 1746 – 24 May 1786) was a military officer, adventurer, and writer from the Kingdom of Hungary, who described himself as both a Hungarian and a Pole. He is considered a national hero in Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia. Benyovszky was born and raised in Verbó, Kingdom of Hungary (present-day Vrbové, Slovakia). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Maurice Benyovszky has received more than 183,245 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Maurice Benyovszky is the 300th most popular military personnel (down from 271st in 2019), the 16th most popular biography from Slovakia (down from 15th in 2019) and the most popular Slovak Military Personnel.

Maurice Benyovszky is most famous for being the first person to take a photo of the Taj Mahal.

Memorability Metrics

  • 180k

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  • 69.04

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 24

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.51

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.81

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Maurice Benyovszky ranks 300 out of 2,058. Before him are Uqba ibn Nafi, Jonas Savimbi, Karl-Otto Koch, Charles François Dumouriez, Alois Brunner, and Polyperchon. After him are Rochus Misch, Meng Tian, Ferdinand Walsin Esterhazy, Alexander Löhr, Vasily Blyukher, and Dmitry Yazov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1746, Maurice Benyovszky ranks 9. Before him are Carlo Buonaparte, Tadeusz Kościuszko, Gaspard Monge, Gustav III of Sweden, Giuseppe Piazzi, and Archduchess Maria Amalia of Austria. After him are William Jones, Sophia Magdalena of Denmark, Antoine Quentin Fouquier-Tinville, Giovanni Battista Venturi, George XII of Georgia, and Tiradentes. Among people deceased in 1786, Maurice Benyovszky ranks 5. Before him are Frederick the Great, Carl Wilhelm Scheele, Moses Mendelssohn, and Peter III of Portugal. After him are Franz Benda, Tokugawa Ieharu, John Goodricke, Eva Ekeblad, Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier, Antonio Sacchini, and Hans Joachim von Zieten.

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In Slovakia

Among people born in Slovakia, Maurice Benyovszky ranks 16 out of 418. Before him are Rudolf von Laban (1879), Juraj Jánošík (1688), Robert Fico (1964), Béla I of Hungary (1016), Ivan Gašparovič (1941), and Pavel Jozef Šafárik (1795). After him are Vladimír Mečiar (1942), Ármin Vámbéry (1832), Vojtech Tuka (1880), Tibor Sekelj (1912), Jozef Gabčík (1912), and Milan Rastislav Štefánik (1880).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Slovakia

Among military personnels born in Slovakia, Maurice Benyovszky ranks 1. After him are Jozef Gabčík (1912), Pál Maléter (1917), Archduke Joseph Karl of Austria (1833), János Pálffy (1664), and Paul Kray (1735).

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