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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 22,042 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Václav Hanka is the 3,805th most popular writer (down from 3,494th in 2019), the 451st most popular biography from Czechia (down from 408th in 2019) and the 51st most popular Czech Writer.

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  • 22k

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  • 49.22

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  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.67

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.46

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Václav Hanka ranks 3,805 out of 5,755Before him are Bret Harte, Cecco Angiolieri, Kim Stanley Robinson, James Redfield, Mary Renault, and Jędrzej Śniadecki. After him are Ferdinand Brunetière, Shinichi Hoshi, Ricardo Piglia, Jan Brzechwa, Bahram Beyzai, and Dmitry Grigorovich.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1791, Václav Hanka ranks 33Before him are Friedrich von Gärtner, Ángel de Saavedra, 3rd Duke of Rivas, Jan Svatopluk Presl, Giuseppe Gioachino Belli, Johan Ludvig Heiberg, and Alexis Thérèse Petit. After him are Robert Knox, Josef Munzinger, Adolf Ivar Arwidsson, Odilon Barrot, William Elford Leach, and József Katona. Among people deceased in 1861, Václav Hanka ranks 41Before him are Joachim Lelewel, Karol Lipiński, Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, Louis Niedermeyer, Albert Niemann, and Heinrich Rudolf Schinz. After him are Ippolito Nievo, Malalai of Maiwand, Stephen A. Douglas, Michele Tenore, Peter Georg Bang, and Gabriel Antonio Pereira.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Václav Hanka ranks 451 out of 973Before him are Aleš Hrdlička (1869), Dagmar Lassander (1943), Maria Jeritza (1887), Gudrun Pausewang (1928), August von Gödrich (1859), and Elmar Klos (1910). After him are Moritz Steinschneider (1816), Bohumil Kubišta (1884), Vlastimil Kopecký (1912), Egon Bondy (1930), Ladislav Klíma (1878), and Milan Máčala (1943).

Among WRITERS In Czechia

Among writers born in Czechia, Václav Hanka ranks 51Before him are Karel Kryl (1944), Jiří Wolker (1900), Jaroslav Vrchlický (1853), Jiří Dienstbier (1937), Karel Teige (1900), and Gudrun Pausewang (1928). After him are Moritz Steinschneider (1816), Josef Kajetán Tyl (1808), Jan Blahoslav (1523), Ludvík Vaculík (1926), Ladislav Mňačko (1919), and Daniela Hodrová (1946).