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Piotr Skarga

1536 - 1612

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Piotr Skarga (less often Piotr Powęski, incorrectly: Pawęski; 2 February 1536 – 27 September 1612) was a Polish Jesuit, preacher, hagiographer, polemicist, and leading figure of the Counter-Reformation in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. Due to his oratorical gifts, he has been called "the Polish Bossuet". Skarga is remembered by Poles as a vigorous early advocate of reforms to the Polish–Lithuanian polity, and as a critic of the Commonwealth's governing classes, as well as of its religious tolerance policies. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Piotr Skarga has received more than 0 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia. Piotr Skarga is the 2,194th most popular writer (down from 1,948th in 2019), the 499th most popular biography from Poland (down from 427th in 2019) and the 48th most popular Polish Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Piotr Skarga ranks 2,194 out of 7,302. Before him are E. L. Doctorow, Samuil Marshak, Asclepiades of Samos, Henning Jakob Henrik Lund, Rómulo Gallegos, and Zygmunt Krasiński. After him are Elisabeth of Schönau, Theodore I, John Moschus, Kaj Munk, Dacia Maraini, and Józef Ignacy Kraszewski.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1536, Piotr Skarga ranks 7. Before him are Pope Clement VIII, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, Yi I, Jeremias II of Constantinople, Ashikaga Yoshiteru, and Johann VI, Count of Nassau-Dillenburg. After him are Ignazio Danti, Lucia Anguissola, Joachim Ernest, Prince of Anhalt, Leonardo Donato, Balthasar Russow, and Lord Guildford Dudley. Among people deceased in 1612, Piotr Skarga ranks 17. Before him are Hans Leo Hassler, Francesco IV Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua, Giovanni Battista Guarini, Jodocus Hondius, Ernest of Bavaria, and False Dmitry III. After him are Leonardo Donato, Giovanni de' Bardi, John Smyth, Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury, Arima Harunobu, and Konoe Sakihisa.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Piotr Skarga ranks 499 out of 1,694. Before him are Elisabeth Becker (1923), Alexander Imich (1903), Marek Grechuta (1945), Friedrich Wilhelm Kritzinger (1890), Zbigniew of Poland (1070), and Vladimir Chelomey (1914). After him are Józef Ignacy Kraszewski (1812), Zbigniew Preisner (1955), Maciej Stryjkowski (1547), Hellmuth Stieff (1901), Heinrich Wilhelm Dove (1803), and Bogislaw X, Duke of Pomerania (1454).

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Among WRITERS In Poland

Among writers born in Poland, Piotr Skarga ranks 48. Before him are Marcel Reich-Ranicki (1920), Maria Konopnicka (1842), Cyprian Norwid (1821), Sholem Asch (1880), Stefania Wilczyńska (1886), and Alexander Imich (1903). After him are Józef Ignacy Kraszewski (1812), Maciej Stryjkowski (1547), Israel Joshua Singer (1893), George Adamski (1891), Stefan Żeromski (1864), and Wanda Wasilewska (1905).

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