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Symeon of Polotsk

1629 - 1680

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Symeon (Simeon) of Polotsk or Symeon Polotsky (Russian: Симео́н По́лоцкий; born as Samuel Piotrowski-Sitnianowicz, Russian: Самуи́л Петро́вский-Ситнянович; December 12, 1629 – August 25, 1680) was an academically-trained Baroque poet, dramatist, churchman, and enlightener of Belarusian descent who came from the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth to the Tsardom of Russia. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Symeon of Polotsk has received more than 33,455 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Symeon of Polotsk is the 2,790th most popular writer (up from 2,846th in 2019), the 89th most popular biography from Belarus (up from 91st in 2019) and the 16th most popular Belarusian Writer.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.22

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.53

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Symeon of Polotsk ranks 2,790 out of 7,302. Before him are Carl Sandburg, Kamo no Chōmei, Matthías Jochumsson, Tadeusz Różewicz, Philitas of Cos, and James Herriot. After him are Kristjan Jaak Peterson, Juvencus, Daniël Heinsius, Malwida von Meysenbug, Macropedius, and Takiji Kobayashi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1629, Symeon of Polotsk ranks 16. Before him are Armand de Bourbon, Prince of Conti, William VI, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel, Charles II, Duke of Mantua and Montferrat, Archduchess Isabella Clara of Austria, Adolph John I, Count Palatine of Kleeburg, and Agnes Block. After him are Laurent Cassegrain, Niels Juel, Jean-Henri d'Anglebert, and Cornelis Tromp. Among people deceased in 1680, Symeon of Polotsk ranks 29. Before him are Peter Lely, Princess Elisabeth Sophie of Saxe-Altenburg, Joachim Neander, Augustus, Duke of Saxe-Weissenfels, Kateri Tekakwitha, and Frans Post. After him are Pierre-Paul Riquet, Marco Uccellini, Yun Hyu, Sophie Augusta of Holstein-Gottorp, John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester, and Wang Shimin.

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In Belarus

Among people born in Belarus, Symeon of Polotsk ranks 89 out of 368. Before him are Jan Czerski (1845), Mieczysław Karłowicz (1876), Itzhak Katzenelson (1886), Menachem Mendel Schneersohn (1789), Tadeusz Dołęga-Mostowicz (1898), and Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz (1758). After him are Alexander Rybak (1986), Oscar Zariski (1899), Ales Adamovich (1927), Anatoly Chubais (1955), Pola Raksa (1941), and Sergei Tumansky (1901).

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Among WRITERS In Belarus

Among writers born in Belarus, Symeon of Polotsk ranks 16. Before him are Uladzimir Karatkievich (1930), Maksim Bahdanovič (1891), Bella Rosenfeld (1889), Itzhak Katzenelson (1886), Tadeusz Dołęga-Mostowicz (1898), and Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz (1758). After him are Ales Adamovich (1927), Zivia Lubetkin (1914), Nahum Goldmann (1895), Jerzy Giedroyc (1906), Immanuel Velikovsky (1895), and Alaiza Pashkevich (1876).

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