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Michał Korybut Wiśniowiecki

1640 - 1673

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Michael I (Polish: Michał Korybut Wiśniowiecki, Lithuanian: Mykolas I Kaributas Višnioveckis; 31 May 1640 – 10 November 1673) was the ruler of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth as King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania from 29 September 1669 until his death in 1673. Michael was chosen partly because of the merit of his father, prince Jeremi Wiśniowiecki, a powerful border magnate who had helped suppress the rebellious Cossacks during the Khmelnytsky Uprising. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Michał Korybut Wiśniowiecki has received more than 169,305 page views. His biography is available in 44 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 41 in 2019). Michał Korybut Wiśniowiecki is the 2,807th most popular politician (up from 3,238th in 2019), the 99th most popular biography from Ukraine (up from 108th in 2019) and the 38th most popular Ukrainian Politician.

Michał Korybut Wiśniowiecki was a Polish military commander and nobleman. He was one of the most successful military commanders in the history of Poland, and was the first person to hold the position of the Grand Crown Hetman. He is most famous for being the father of King John III Sobieski, who led the Polish forces to victory over the Ottoman Empire in the Battle of Vienna.

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Among politicians, Michał Korybut Wiśniowiecki ranks 2,807 out of 15,577Before him are Irene of Hungary, Bindusara, Lin Zexu, Gina Haspel, Wilhelm Miklas, and Duke of Zhou. After him are Agostinho Neto, Hasdrubal the Fair, Lady Sun, Archduchess Maria Clementina of Austria, Lansana Conté, and Zulfikar Ali Bhutto.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1640, Michał Korybut Wiśniowiecki ranks 5Before him are Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor, Philippe I, Duke of Orléans, Man in the Iron Mask, and Françoise-Athénaïs de Rochechouart, Marquise de Montespan. After him are La Voisin, Pu Songling, Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe, Gaspar Sanz, Aphra Behn, Philippe de La Hire, and Antoine Coysevox. Among people deceased in 1673, Michał Korybut Wiśniowiecki ranks 5Before him are Molière, Charles de Batz de Castelmore d'Artagnan, Margaret Theresa of Spain, and Salvator Rosa. After him are Semyon Dezhnev, Regnier de Graaf, Joan Blaeu, Eugene Maurice, Count of Soissons, Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and Barent Fabritius.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Michał Korybut Wiśniowiecki ranks 99 out of 1,083Before him are Karol Szymanowski (1882), Oleg Blokhin (1952), Nestor the Chronicler (1056), Reinhold Glière (1874), Lee Strasberg (1901), and Ivan Paskevich (1782). After him are Marie Bashkirtseff (1858), Lev Shestov (1866), Nikolai Tikhonov (1905), Alexander Archipenko (1887), Emil Gilels (1916), and Sergei Bondarchuk (1920).

Among POLITICIANS In Ukraine

Among politicians born in Ukraine, Michał Korybut Wiśniowiecki ranks 38Before him are Yitzhak Ben-Zvi (1884), Sergey Bubka (1963), Edward Rydz-Śmigły (1886), Yevgeny Primakov (1929), Boris Shcherbina (1919), and Vsevolod I of Kiev (1030). After him are Nikolai Tikhonov (1905), Oleksandr Turchynov (1964), Sviatopolk II of Kiev (1050), Nikolai Ryzhkov (1929), Ivan Sirko (1610), and Anatoly Lunacharsky (1875).