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Tadeusz Boy-Żeleński

1874 - 1941

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Tadeusz Kamil Marcjan Żeleński (21 December 1874 – 4 July 1941), better known by his pen name Tadeusz Boy-Żeleński or simply as Boy, was a Polish stage writer, poet, critic and, above all, the translator of over 100 French literary classics into Polish. He was a pediatrician and gynecologist by profession. A notable personality in the Young Poland movement of c. 1890 to 1918, Boy was the enfant terrible of the Polish literary scene in the first half of the 20th century. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Tadeusz Boy-Żeleński has received more than 75,472 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Tadeusz Boy-Żeleński is the 4,228th most popular writer (down from 4,050th in 2019), the 879th most popular biography from Poland (down from 823rd in 2019) and the 102nd most popular Polish Writer.

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  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.56

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.63

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Tadeusz Boy-Żeleński ranks 4,228 out of 7,302. Before him are Guillermo Arriaga, Charlaine Harris, George Kodinos, Elizabeth Bowen, Gheorghe Asachi, and Arturo Uslar Pietri. After him are Albert Ehrenstein, Edmonde Charles-Roux, Francesco Mario Pagano, Konrad Pellikan, Erica Jong, and David Almond.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1874, Tadeusz Boy-Żeleński ranks 153. Before him are Ludwig Diels, Charles William Miller, Sténio Vincent, Friedrich Hasenöhrl, Honus Wagner, and Nikolai Semashko. After him are Lucien Démanet, Penelope Delta, Teresa Feoderovna Ries, Wesley Clair Mitchell, Photius II of Constantinople, and Oskari Mantere. Among people deceased in 1941, Tadeusz Boy-Żeleński ranks 147. Before him are Karl Neukirch, Chris Watson, Paul von Hintze, Lev Dovator, Štefan Banič, and Fred Karno. After him are Fritz Noether, Penelope Delta, Ibrahim Tuqan, Tom Phillips, Ernst, Prince of Saxe-Meiningen, and Igor Severyanin.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Tadeusz Boy-Żeleński ranks 879 out of 1,694. Before him are Jakub Błaszczykowski (1985), Ewa Demarczyk (1941), Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz (1950), Henryk Arctowski (1871), Kazimierz Sosnkowski (1885), and Józef Kozłowski (1757). After him are Mascha Kaléko (1907), Theodor Tolsdorff (1909), Władysław Ślewiński (1856), Jacob Talmon (1916), Salomon Jadassohn (1831), and Johannes Winkler (1897).

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Among WRITERS In Poland

Among writers born in Poland, Tadeusz Boy-Żeleński ranks 102. Before him are Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński (1921), Horst Bienek (1930), Arno Holz (1863), Anna Langfus (1920), Jan Kott (1914), and Jurek Becker (1937). After him are Mascha Kaléko (1907), Johann Christian Günther (1695), Arkady Fiedler (1894), Marek Hłasko (1934), Florian Ceynowa (1817), and Agnieszka Osiecka (1936).

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