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Oskar Kolberg

1814 - 1890

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Henryk Oskar Kolberg (22 February 1814 – 3 June 1890) was a Polish ethnographer, folklorist, encyclopedist, and composer active in Partitioned Poland. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Oskar Kolberg has received more than 40,861 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Oskar Kolberg is the 1,178th most popular composer (down from 1,140th in 2019), the 1,017th most popular biography from Poland (down from 923rd in 2019) and the 35th most popular Polish Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Oskar Kolberg ranks 1,178 out of 1,451Before him are Michel Colombier, Valeri Brainin, Sveinbjörn Sveinbjörnsson, Vyacheslav Ovchinnikov, Melchior Vulpius, and Alberto Nepomuceno. After him are Adolph Deutsch, Knudåge Riisager, Cyril Scott, Francisco Asenjo Barbieri, Gustav Ernesaks, and Tadeusz Baird.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1814, Oskar Kolberg ranks 61Before him are Hermann, Prince of Wied, Adolph Tidemand, Franz Josef Ruprecht, Edwin Stanton, Edmond Frémy, and Felix Lichnowsky. After him are Nicolaas Beets, Jacques-Joseph Ebelmen, Dimitrios Valvis, Juan Rafael Mora Porras, Samuel J. Tilden, and Ludwig Schläfli. Among people deceased in 1890, Oskar Kolberg ranks 61Before him are Jacob van Zuylen van Nijevelt, Alexander Litovchenko, Władysław Taczanowski, Pyotr Chikhachyov, Lydia Becker, and Gottfried Ludolf Camphausen. After him are Joseph Hergenröther, George Crook, Carl Jacob Löwig, John Francis Davis, Catherine Booth, and William Bell Scott.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Oskar Kolberg ranks 1,017 out of 1,694Before him are Karl Wilhelm Ramler (1725), Klabund (1890), Jan Kasprowicz (1860), Walter Leistikow (1865), Leon Kozłowski (1892), and Maria Pawlikowska-Jasnorzewska (1891). After him are Willy Kaiser (1912), Zbigniew Rybczyński (1949), Lothar Bolz (1903), Paul Mattick (1904), Tadeusz Baird (1928), and Kazimierz Przerwa-Tetmajer (1865).

Among COMPOSERS In Poland

Among composers born in Poland, Oskar Kolberg ranks 35Before him are Józef Kozłowski (1757), Salomon Jadassohn (1831), Zygmunt Noskowski (1846), Wacław of Szamotuły (1520), Władysław Żeleński (1837), and Karol Kurpiński (1785). After him are Tadeusz Baird (1928), Jan A. P. Kaczmarek (1953), Ludomir Różycki (1883), Abel Korzeniowski (1972), and Agata Zubel (1978).