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Paisius of Hilendar

1722 - 1773

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Saint Paisius of Hilendar or Paìsiy Hilendàrski (Bulgarian: Свети Паисий Хилендарски) (1722–1773) was a Bulgarian Orthodox clergyman and a key Bulgarian National Revival figure. He is most famous for being the author of Istoriya Slavyanobolgarskaya (1762), the first significant modern Bulgarian history that became famous and has been copied and distributed everywhere in the Bulgarian lands. The book is, overall, the third modern work of Bulgarian history, after the works titled "History of Bulgaria" by Petar Bogdan Bakshev in 1667 and by Blasius Kleiner in 1761. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Paisius of Hilendar has received more than 88,949 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Paisius of Hilendar is the 157th most popular historian (up from 183rd in 2019), the 88th most popular biography from Bulgaria (up from 105th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Bulgarian Historian.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 24

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.68

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.70

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Paisius of Hilendar ranks 157 out of 561. Before him are Norman Davies, Gottfried Achenwall, Peter Martyr d'Anghiera, Hisham ibn al-Kalbi, Edward Luttwak, and Helmold. After him are Marin Barleti, Matthew of Edessa, Ibn al-Faqih, Arnold Toynbee, Hermann Abert, and Ibn Wahshiyya.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1722, Paisius of Hilendar ranks 15. Before him are Duchess Luise of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Paisius Velichkovsky, Pietro Nardini, Amursana, Leopold Auenbrugger, and Prince George William of Hesse-Darmstadt. After him are François Joseph Paul de Grasse, Christian IV, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken, Nicolas Luckner, Heinrich Johann Nepomuk von Crantz, John Burgoyne, and Petrus Camper. Among people deceased in 1773, Paisius of Hilendar ranks 7. Before him are Mustafa III, Charles Emmanuel III of Sardinia, Johann Joachim Quantz, Ali Bey al-Kabir, Friedrich Wilhelm von Seydlitz, and Luigi Vanvitelli. After him are Philibert Commerson, Princess Anne Charlotte of Lorraine, Anton Janša, Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, Johan Ernst Gunnerus, and Stanisław Konarski.

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In Bulgaria

Among people born in Bulgaria, Paisius of Hilendar ranks 88 out of 415. Before him are Smilets of Bulgaria (1200), George II of Bulgaria (1300), Valko Chervenkov (1900), Dimitar Berbatov (1981), Sabahattin Ali (1907), and Kardam of Bulgaria (735). After him are Theodore Svetoslav of Bulgaria (1270), Ahmed Dogan (1954), Stefan Stambolov (1854), Petar Stoyanov (1952), Anna-Maria Ravnopolska-Dean (1960), and Princess Nadezhda of Bulgaria (1899).

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Among HISTORIANS In Bulgaria

Among historians born in Bulgaria, Paisius of Hilendar ranks 2. Before him are Tzvetan Todorov (1939). After him are Marin Drinov (1838).

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