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Vasile Alecsandri

1821 - 1890

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Vasile Alecsandri (Romanian pronunciation: [vaˈsile aleksanˈdri]; 21 July 1821 – 22 August 1890) was a Romanian patriot, poet, dramatist, politician and diplomat. He was one of the key figures during the 1848 revolutions in Moldavia and Wallachia. He fought for the unification of the Romanian Principalities, writing "Hora Unirii" in 1856 and giving up his candidacy for the title of prince of Moldavia, in favor of Alexandru Ioan Cuza. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Vasile Alecsandri has received more than 141,667 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Vasile Alecsandri is the 1,871st most popular writer (up from 2,079th in 2019), the 128th most popular biography from Romania (up from 131st in 2019) and the 16th most popular Romanian Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Vasile Alecsandri ranks 1,871 out of 5,755Before him are Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala, Pjetër Bogdani, Trygve Gulbranssen, Alex Haley, Luis de León, and Lydia Koidula. After him are Louis-Sébastien Mercier, Oliver Goldsmith, Jacint Verdaguer, Hirokazu Kanazawa, Mukaghali Makatayev, and Ruan Ji.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1821, Vasile Alecsandri ranks 32Before him are Ernst Engel, Eduard Heine, Henry Thomas Buckle, Duchess Caroline Mariane of Mecklenburg, Bartolomé Mitre, and Franz Doppler. After him are Tuone Udaina, Rachel Félix, Archduke Friedrich of Austria, Gabriel García Moreno, Philipp Ludwig von Seidel, and Leon Pinsker. Among people deceased in 1890, Vasile Alecsandri ranks 26Before him are Gottfried Keller, Lorenz von Stein, Louis Le Prince, Carl Bloch, Christian Heinrich Friedrich Peters, and Christopher Latham Sholes. After him are Archduke Johann Salvator of Austria, Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr, Ivan Mažuranić, Camilo Castelo Branco, Alexander Georg von Bunge, and C. H. D. Buys Ballot.

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In Romania

Among people born in Romania, Vasile Alecsandri ranks 128 out of 665Before him are Orban (1404), Miklós Nyiszli (1901), Mihai Antonescu (1904), Michael I Apafi (1632), Victor Brauner (1903), and Tudor Vladimirescu (1780). After him are László Bölöni (1953), Constantin Brâncoveanu (1654), Armand Călinescu (1893), Dora d'Istria (1828), Constantin Sănătescu (1885), and Countess Claudine Rhédey von Kis-Rhéde (1812).

Among WRITERS In Romania

Among writers born in Romania, Vasile Alecsandri ranks 16Before him are Dositej Obradović (1742), Ion Creangă (1837), Károly Kerényi (1897), Ion Luca Caragiale (1852), Lajos Zilahy (1891), and Miklós Nyiszli (1901). After him are Dora d'Istria (1828), János Arany (1817), Richard Wurmbrand (1909), Marthe Bibesco (1886), Mihail Sadoveanu (1880), and Tudor Arghezi (1880).