WRITER

Mikołaj Rej

1505 - 1569

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Mikołaj Rej or Mikołaj Rey of Nagłowice (4 February 1505 – between 8 September/5 October 1569) was a Polish poet and prose writer of the emerging Renaissance in Poland as it succeeded the Middle Ages, as well as a politician and musician. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mikołaj Rej has received more than 89,721 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Mikołaj Rej is the 2,403rd most popular writer (up from 2,418th in 2019), the 347th most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 329th in 2019) and the 48th most popular Ukrainian Writer.

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  • 54.84

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  • 28

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.19

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.15

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

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Postylla
Zhivot Jozepha
Krótka rozprawa miedzy trzemi osobami
Pisma wierszem
Różne przypadki świata tega

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Mikołaj Rej ranks 2,403 out of 7,302Before him are Per Petterson, Jeremias Gotthelf, M. Karunanidhi, Abu-l-'Atahiya, Giovanni Pascoli, and Bion of Smyrna. After him are Alonso de Ercilla, Kate Millett, Charles Maturin, Vasile Alecsandri, Ahmad Shamlou, and Eustache Deschamps.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1505, Mikołaj Rej ranks 9Before him are Joachim II Hector, Elector of Brandenburg, Andrea Amati, Jane Boleyn, Viscountess Rochford, Michel de l'Hôpital, Juan de Valdés, and Christine of Saxony. After him are Christoph Amberger, Lambert Lombard, Nikolaus Federmann, Vicente Juan Masip, Pierre Robert Olivétan, and Kanijeli Siyavuş Pasha. Among people deceased in 1569, Mikołaj Rej ranks 9Before him are Gracia Mendes Nasi, Louis, Prince of Condé, Wolfgang, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken, Maria Temryukovna, Gerolama Orsini, and Aben Humeya. After him are Catherine Carey, Philibert, Margrave of Baden-Baden, Philip II, Metropolitan of Moscow, António Ferreira, and Myles Coverdale.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Mikołaj Rej ranks 347 out of 1,365Before him are Dmitry Dmitrievich Maksutov (1896), Myroslav Skoryk (1938), Euphemia of Kiev (1100), Ihor Kolomoyskyi (1963), Felix Blumenfeld (1863), and Michał Boym (1614). After him are Larisa Shepitko (1938), Victor Kravchenko (1905), Petro Shelest (1908), Sergei Bortkiewicz (1877), Bohdan Stupka (1941), and Géza Kalocsay (1913).

Among WRITERS In Ukraine

Among writers born in Ukraine, Mikołaj Rej ranks 48Before him are Ahad Ha'am (1856), Vsevolod Garshin (1855), Tadeusz Borowski (1922), Mikhail Artsybashev (1878), Carolyne zu Sayn-Wittgenstein (1819), and Dmytro Dontsov (1883). After him are Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky (1864), Valentin Kataev (1897), Maximilian Voloshin (1877), Israel Zolli (1881), Lev Kopelev (1912), and Panteleimon Kulish (1819).