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Václav Hanka

1791 - 1861

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Václav Hanka (also written as Wenceslaus Hanka) (10 June 1791 – 12 January 1861) was a Czech philologist. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Václav Hanka has received more than 23,550 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Václav Hanka is the 3,541st most popular writer (up from 3,792nd in 2019), the 450th most popular biography from Czechia (up from 451st in 2019) and the 48th most popular Czech Writer.

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  • 24k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 51.46

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.39

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.34

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Václav Hanka ranks 3,541 out of 7,302. Before him are Françoise Giroud, Donald Barthelme, Xiao Hong, Howard Pyle, Edwin Arnold, and Cotton Mather. After him are Jien, Jovan Sterija Popović, Anna Gavalda, Mikhail Zhvanetsky, Pavel Bazhov, and Hryhorii Kvitka-Osnovianenko.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1791, Václav Hanka ranks 30. Before him are Sergey Aksakov, Henryk Dembiński, Jan Václav Voříšek, Ángel de Saavedra, 3rd Duke of Rivas, Louis Visconti, and Theodor Körner. After him are Johan Ludvig Heiberg, Giuseppe Gioachino Belli, William Elford Leach, Alexis Thérèse Petit, Robert Knox, and Josef Munzinger. Among people deceased in 1861, Václav Hanka ranks 41. Before him are Karol Lipiński, John Stevens Henslow, Albert Niemann, Princess Maria Carolina of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Louis Niedermeyer, and Heinrich Rudolf Schinz. After him are Infante João, Duke of Beja, Antun Mihanović, Gabriel Antonio Pereira, Stephen A. Douglas, Francisco del Rosario Sánchez, and Johann Andreas Wagner.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Václav Hanka ranks 450 out of 1,200. Before him are Dominik Hašek (1965), Eduard Nápravník (1839), Christoph Demantius (1567), Milan Máčala (1943), Ernst Tugendhat (1930), and Jaromír Jágr (1972). After him are Dagmar Lassander (1943), Otakar Vávra (1911), Ralph Benatzky (1884), Koloman Gögh (1948), Ernst Weiss (1882), and František Veselý (1943).

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Among WRITERS In Czechia

Among writers born in Czechia, Václav Hanka ranks 48. Before him are Viktor Dyk (1877), Vladislav Vančura (1891), Jiří Dienstbier (1937), Jiří Wolker (1900), Arnošt Lustig (1926), and Moritz Steinschneider (1816). After him are Ernst Weiss (1882), Jaroslav Vrchlický (1853), Ludvík Vaculík (1926), Karel Teige (1900), Karel Píč (1920), and Daniela Hodrová (1946).

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