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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 356,689 page views. His biography is available in 49 different languages on Wikipedia. Vuk Karadžić is the 666th most popular writer (down from 590th in 2019), the 36th most popular biography from Serbia (down from 27th 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)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Vuk Karadžić ranks 666 out of 5,755. Before him are Walter Raleigh, Raymond Queneau, Kumārajīva, Patricia Highsmith, Giosuè Carducci, and Nellie Bly. After him are Masaru Emoto, Bernart de Ventadorn, Giambattista Basile, Ivan Goncharov, Antoine François Prévost, and Ryszard Kapuściński.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1787, Vuk Karadžić ranks 7. Before him are Louis Daguerre, Shaka, Joseph von Fraunhofer, Jan Evangelista Purkyně, François Guizot, and Maria Ludovika of Austria-Este. After him are Rasmus Rask, Alfred I, Prince of Windisch-Grätz, Franz Xaver Gruber, Alexander Sergeyevich Menshikov, Otto von Kotzebue, and Johann Nicolaus von Dreyse. Among people deceased in 1864, Vuk Karadžić ranks 9. Before him are Maximilian II of Bavaria, Giacomo Meyerbeer, Cheoljong of Joseon, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Benoît Paul Émile Clapeyron, and Hong Xiuquan. After him are Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve, William I of Württemberg, Louise Marie Thérèse of Artois, John Hanning Speke, Leo von Klenze, and Princess Charlotte of Denmark.

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In Serbia

Among people born in Serbia, Vuk Karadžić ranks 36 out of 564. Before him are Aşub Sultan (1627), Vojislav Koštunica (1944), Miloš Obrenović (1780), Herennius Etruscus (220), Hostilian (230), and Maximinus II (270). After him are Alboin (530), Quintillus (220), Dušan Ivković (1943), Dragutin Dimitrijević (1876), Nikola Pašić (1845), and Milan Nedić (1878).

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Among WRITERS In Serbia

Among writers born in Serbia, Vuk Karadžić ranks 1. After him are Milorad Pavić (1929), Danilo Kiš (1935), Dobrica Ćosić (1921), Branislav Nušić (1864), Radoje Domanović (1873), Desanka Maksimović (1898), Jovan Jovanović Zmaj (1833), Dezső Kosztolányi (1885), Isidora Sekulić (1877), Vasko Popa (1922), and Đura Jakšić (1832).

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