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Piotr Skarga

1536 - 1612

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Piotr Skarga (less often Piotr Powęski; 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 72,831 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia. Piotr Skarga is the 1,954th most popular writer (up from 2,308th in 2019), the 427th most popular biography from Poland (up from 489th in 2019) and the 42nd most popular Polish Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Piotr Skarga ranks 1,954 out of 5,755. Before him are Junji Ito, Vasyl Sukhomlynsky, Alfred Bester, Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr, Countess of Ségur, and Servius Sulpicius Rufus. After him are John Grinder, C. W. Ceram, Olga Rozanova, Gustav Schwab, Methodius of Olympus, and Atsushi Nakajima.

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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 Lord Guildford Dudley, Leonardo Donato, Joachim Ernest, Prince of Anhalt, Lucia Anguissola, Ignazio Danti, and Marcantonio Memmo. Among people deceased in 1612, Piotr Skarga ranks 14. Before him are Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales, Karin Månsdotter, Anne Catherine of Brandenburg, Francesco IV Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua, Jodocus Hondius, and Hans Leo Hassler. After him are John Smyth, Nicholas Rémy, False Dmitry III, Giovanni Battista Guarini, Leonardo Donato, and Charles, Count of Soissons.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Piotr Skarga ranks 427 out of 1,454. Before him are Hans Woellke (1911), Vitello (1230), Bronisław Huberman (1882), Adam Stefan Sapieha (1867), Duke Louis of Württemberg (1756), and Sendivogius (1566). After him are Vladimir Chelomey (1914), Mieszko I Tanglefoot (1132), Marcel Reich-Ranicki (1920), Rudolf Christoph Freiherr von Gersdorff (1905), Israel Joshua Singer (1893), and Zawisza Czarny (1379).

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Among WRITERS In Poland

Among writers born in Poland, Piotr Skarga ranks 42. Before him are Alexander Imich (1903), I. L. Peretz (1852), George Adamski (1891), Avraham Stern (1907), Maria Konopnicka (1842), and Stefania Wilczyńska (1886). After him are Marcel Reich-Ranicki (1920), Israel Joshua Singer (1893), Julian Tuwim (1894), Izabela Czartoryska (1746), Georg Heym (1887), and Stanisław Przybyszewski (1868).

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