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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 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 81,710 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Paisius of Hilendar is the 183rd most popular historian (down from 178th in 2019), the 105th most popular biography from Bulgaria (down from 102nd in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Bulgarian Historian.

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Paisius of Hilendar ranks 183 out of 339. Before him are Arno Peters, Festus, Robert Conquest, Heinrich Graetz, Bernard Desclot, and Hermann Abert. After him are Edgar Quinet, Philistus, Edward Luttwak, Charles Forbes René de Montalembert, Mirkhvand, and Gerardus Vossius.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1722, Paisius of Hilendar ranks 16. Before him are Prince George William of Hesse-Darmstadt, Pietro Nardini, Amursana, Paisius Velichkovsky, Leopold Auenbrugger, and François Joseph Paul de Grasse. After him are Petrus Camper, Christian IV, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken, Flora MacDonald, Heinrich Johann Nepomuk von Crantz, and John Burgoyne. Among people deceased in 1773, Paisius of Hilendar ranks 9. Before him are Johann Joachim Quantz, Friedrich Wilhelm von Seydlitz, Ali Bey al-Kabir, Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, Princess Anne Charlotte of Lorraine, and Luigi Vanvitelli. After him are Philibert Commerson, Anton Janša, Alexis Piron, Stanisław Konarski, Johan Ernst Gunnerus, and George Edwards.

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In Bulgaria

Among people born in Bulgaria, Paisius of Hilendar ranks 105 out of 372. Before him are Dimitar Blagoev (1856), Georgi Ivanov (1940), Stefka Kostadinova (1965), Ghena Dimitrova (1941), Keratsa of Bulgaria (1348), and Princess Eudoxia of Bulgaria (1898). After him are Dimitar Berbatov (1981), Presian I of Bulgaria (820), Traicho Kostov (1897), Neophyte of Bulgaria (1945), Princess Nadezhda of Bulgaria (1899), and Dimitar Penev (1945).

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Among HISTORIANS In Bulgaria

Among historians born in Bulgaria, Paisius of Hilendar ranks 3. Before him are Tzvetan Todorov (1939) and Johann Weikhard von Valvasor (1641). After him are Marin Drinov (1838).

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