WRITER

Pavel Jozef Šafárik

1795 - 1861

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Pavel Jozef Šafárik (Slovak: Pavol Jozef Šafárik; 13 May 1795 – 26 June 1861) was an ethnic Slovak philologist, poet, literary historian, historian and ethnographer in the Kingdom of Hungary. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Pavel Jozef Šafárik has received more than 78,175 page views. His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 33 in 2019). Pavel Jozef Šafárik is the 700th most popular writer (up from 777th in 2019), the 15th most popular biography from Slovakia (up from 20th in 2019) and the most popular Slovak Writer.

Pavel Jozef Šafárik is most famous for being the author of the first Czech grammar book and his translations of Shakespeare.

Memorability Metrics

  • 78k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 64.27

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 35

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 10.36

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.85

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Slawische Alterthümer
Slavs, History, Accessible book
1843
Geschichte der slawischen Sprache und Literatur nach allen Mundarten
History, History and criticism, Slavic languages
1963
Słowiańskie starożytności
Slavs, history, Medieval
2003
Korespondence
1927
Slovanský národopis
Slavic languages, Slavic philology, Slavs
1955
Sebraneʹ spisy
Accessible book
1862

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Pavel Jozef Šafárik ranks 700 out of 7,302. Before him are Laura Ingalls Wilder, Multatuli, Abu al-Ghazi Bahadur, Naim Frashëri, Luis de Góngora, and Periander. After him are Andrea Camilleri, Arto Paasilinna, Jack Vance, Maurice Denis, Max Jacob, and Louise Hay.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1795, Pavel Jozef Šafárik ranks 7. Before him are James K. Polk, Frederick William IV of Prussia, Leopold von Ranke, Anna Pavlovna of Russia, John Keats, and Thomas Carlyle. After him are Antonio José de Sucre, Ary Scheffer, Dred Scott, Alexander Griboyedov, Ernst Heinrich Weber, and Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg. Among people deceased in 1861, Pavel Jozef Šafárik ranks 11. Before him are Albert, Prince Consort, Xianfeng Emperor, Friedrich Carl von Savigny, Lola Montez, Pedro V of Portugal, and Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld. After him are Utagawa Kuniyoshi, Adam Jerzy Czartoryski, Eugène Scribe, Elisha Otis, Ranavalona I, and Lars Levi Laestadius.

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In Slovakia

Among people born in Slovakia, Pavel Jozef Šafárik ranks 15 out of 418. Before him are Johann Nepomuk Hummel (1778), Rudolf von Laban (1879), Juraj Jánošík (1688), Robert Fico (1964), Béla I of Hungary (1016), and Ivan Gašparovič (1941). After him are Maurice Benyovszky (1746), Vladimír Mečiar (1942), Ármin Vámbéry (1832), Vojtech Tuka (1880), Tibor Sekelj (1912), and Jozef Gabčík (1912).

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Among WRITERS In Slovakia

Among writers born in Slovakia, Pavel Jozef Šafárik ranks 1. After him are Tibor Sekelj (1912), Ľudovít Štúr (1815), Vladimír Clementis (1902), Bálint Balassi (1554), Pavol Országh Hviezdoslav (1849), Imre Madách (1823), Kálmán Mikszáth (1847), Alexander Dukhnovych (1803), Jozef Miloslav Hurban (1817), Lajos Kassák (1887), and Janko Matúška (1821).

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