WRITER

Vuk Karadžić

1787 - 1864

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Vuk Stefanović Karadžić (Serbian Cyrillic: Вук Стефановић Караџић, pronounced [ʋûːk stefǎːnoʋitɕ kâradʒitɕ]; 6 November 1787 (26 October OS) – 7 February 1864) was a Serbian philologist, anthropologist and linguist. He was one of the most important reformers of the modern Serbian language. For his collection and preservation of Serbian folktales, Encyclopædia Britannica labelled Karadžić "the father of Serbian folk-literature scholarship." He was also the author of the first Serbian dictionary in the new reformed language. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Vuk Karadžić has received more than 380,211 page views. His biography is available in 51 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 49 in 2019). Vuk Karadžić is the 486th most popular writer (up from 665th in 2019), the 33rd most popular biography from Serbia (up from 36th in 2019) and the most popular Serbian Writer.

Vuk Karadžić is best known for his dictionary and grammar books.

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    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.29

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.09

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Vuk Karadžić ranks 486 out of 7,302. Before him are W. B. Yeats, Miguel Ángel Asturias, Maria Leopoldina of Austria, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Luo Guanzhong, and Edward Said. After him are Charles, Duke of Orléans, Wu Cheng'en, Giorgos Seferis, Ilya Ehrenburg, Ludvig Holberg, and Alessandro Manzoni.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1787, Vuk Karadžić ranks 4. Before him are Louis Daguerre, Joseph von Fraunhofer, and Shaka. After him are François Guizot, Jan Evangelista Purkyně, Maria Ludovika of Austria-Este, Rasmus Rask, Guillaume Henri Dufour, Alfred I, Prince of Windisch-Grätz, Franz Xaver Gruber, and Alexander Sergeyevich Menshikov. Among people deceased in 1864, Vuk Karadžić ranks 6. Before him are George Boole, Ferdinand Lassalle, Maximilian II of Bavaria, Cheoljong of Joseon, and Giacomo Meyerbeer. After him are Hong Xiuquan, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Benoît Paul Émile Clapeyron, William I of Württemberg, Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve, and Leo von Klenze.

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In Serbia

Among people born in Serbia, Vuk Karadžić ranks 33 out of 661. Before him are Quintillus (220), Novak Djokovic (1987), Mátyás Rákosi (1892), Constantius III (370), Hostilian (230), and Miloš Obrenović (1780). After him are Josip Jelačić (1801), Vojislav Koštunica (1944), Maximinus II (270), Marina Abramović (1946), Nikola Pašić (1845), and Herennius Etruscus (220).

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Among WRITERS In Serbia

Among writers born in Serbia, Vuk Karadžić ranks 1. After him are Milorad Pavić (1929), Dobrica Ćosić (1921), Danilo Kiš (1935), Branislav Nušić (1864), Radoje Domanović (1873), Jovan Jovanović Zmaj (1833), Desanka Maksimović (1898), Đura Jakšić (1832), Vasko Popa (1922), Aleksandar Tišma (1924), and Isidora Sekulić (1877).

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