WRITER

Michalina Wisłocka

1921 - 2005

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Michalina Anna Wisłocka ([mʲi.xaˈlʲi.na ˈan̪ːa viˈswɔt͡ska]; née Braun; 1 July 1921 – 5 February 2005) was a Polish gynecologist, sexologist, and author of Sztuka kochania (verbatim: The Art of Loving, English edition A Practical Guide to Marital Bliss, 1978), the first guide to sexual life in a communist country. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Michalina Wisłocka has received more than 190,645 page views. Her biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Michalina Wisłocka is the 4,673rd most popular writer (down from 2,899th in 2019), the 959th most popular biography from Poland (down from 632nd in 2019) and the 114th most popular Polish Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 190k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 48.50

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 24

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.78

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.24

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Sztuka kochania w dwadziescia lat pozniej
1988
Sztuka kochania
Sex instruction for youth
1978
A practical guide to marital bliss
Sex instruction for youth
1987
Sztuka kochania w dwadziescia lat pozniej
1988
Sztuka kochania
Sex instruction for youth
1978
A practical guide to marital bliss
Sex instruction for youth
1987

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Michalina Wisłocka ranks 4,673 out of 7,302. Before her are Taylor Caldwell, Süreyya Ağaoğlu, H. C. Artmann, Juan José Arreola, Stephen Baxter, and Elias Khoury. After her are Peter Ackroyd, Paweł Huelle, Nikolai Tikhonov, August Jakobson, Tobias Wolff, and Samo Chalupka.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1921, Michalina Wisłocka ranks 292. Before her are Carlo Parola, Eusebio Castigliano, Nadezhda Popova, Barbro Hiort af Ornäs, H. C. Artmann, and Juan José Arreola. After her are Ted Schroeder, Francis Blanche, Heinrich Schmid, Sotiria Bellou, Joseph Iléo, and Ruth Orkin. Among people deceased in 2005, Michalina Wisłocka ranks 221. Before her are Pierre Daninos, Attilio Giovannini, Jan Nowak-Jeziorański, Ramanand Sagar, Harrison Young, and Éva Novák-Gerard. After her are Karen Lancaume, Jan Pieter Schotte, José Beyaert, Julián Marías, Maurice Lafont, and Colette Besson.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Michalina Wisłocka ranks 959 out of 1,694. Before her are Gustav Neumann (1838), Ursula Happe (1926), Jakub Wujek (1541), Igor Newerly (1903), Stanisław Kowalski (1910), and Erwin Geschonneck (1906). After her are Józef Szmidt (1935), Paweł Huelle (1957), Marie Rambert (1888), Teresa Ciepły (1937), Jan Nowicki (1939), and Józef Młynarczyk (1953).

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Among WRITERS In Poland

Among writers born in Poland, Michalina Wisłocka ranks 114. Before her are Agnieszka Osiecka (1936), Bolesław Leśmian (1877), Karl von Holtei (1798), Łukasz Górnicki (1527), Adam Asnyk (1838), and Igor Newerly (1903). After her are Paweł Huelle (1957), Hanna Krall (1935), Jan Andrzej Morsztyn (1621), Jan Chryzostom Pasek (1636), Alexander Abusch (1902), and Christian Hoffmann von Hoffmannswaldau (1616).

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