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Sándor Petőfi

1823 - 1849

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Sándor Petőfi (Hungarian: [ˈʃaːndor ˈpɛtøːfi] []; né Petrovics; Slovak: Alexander Petrovič; Serbian: Александар Петровић; 1 January 1823 – most likely 31 July 1849) was a Hungarian poet and liberal revolutionary. He is considered Hungary's national poet, and was one of the key figures of the Hungarian Revolution of 1848. He is the author of the Nemzeti dal (National Song), which is said to have inspired the revolution in the Kingdom of Hungary that grew into a war for independence from the Austrian Empire. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sándor Petőfi has received more than 385,010 page views. His biography is available in 59 different languages on Wikipedia (down from 60 in 2019). Sándor Petőfi is the 565th most popular writer (up from 566th in 2019), the 57th most popular biography from Hungary (up from 58th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Hungarian Writer.

Sándor Petőfi is most famous for writing the Hungarian national anthem.

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  • 5.51

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Sándor Petőfi ranks 565 out of 5,755Before him are Faxian, Percy Fawcett, Saint Naum, Jacob L. Moreno, Alain Robbe-Grillet, and Theocritus. After him are Mo Yan, Lion Feuchtwanger, Dietrich Eckart, Eyvind Johnson, Isaac Babel, and Dino Buzzati.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1823, Sándor Petőfi ranks 9Before him are Alfred Russel Wallace, Max Müller, Ernest Renan, Alexandre Cabanel, Gyula Andrássy, and Leopold Kronecker. After him are Édouard Lalo, Jean-Henri Fabre, Li Hongzhang, John Sherman, Frederick Francis II, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, and Charles III, Duke of Parma. Among people deceased in 1849, Sándor Petőfi ranks 10Before him are Hokusai, Johann Strauss I, Muhammad Ali of Egypt, William II of the Netherlands, Anne Brontë, and Charles Albert of Sardinia. After him are Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner, Heonjong of Joseon, France Prešeren, Şehzade Abdullah, Juliette Récamier, and Otto Nicolai.

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In Hungary

Among people born in Hungary, Sándor Petőfi ranks 57 out of 866Before him are Emeric Thököly (1657), Flórián Albert (1941), Ladislaus IV of Hungary (1262), Karl Mannheim (1893), George de Hevesy (1885), and Elizabeth of Bosnia (1340). After him are László Moholy-Nagy (1895), Béla Guttmann (1899), Albert Szent-Györgyi (1893), Andrew I of Hungary (1010), Emeric, King of Hungary (1174), and Marcel Breuer (1902).

Among WRITERS In Hungary

Among writers born in Hungary, Sándor Petőfi ranks 4Before him are Theodor Herzl (1860), Imre Kertész (1929), and Ágota Kristóf (1935). After him are Ferenc Molnár (1878), Arthur Koestler (1905), Felix Salten (1869), Ephraim Kishon (1924), Max Nordau (1849), Magda Szabó (1917), Nikolaus Lenau (1802), and Béla Balázs (1884).