WRITER

Zofia Kossak-Szczucka

1889 - 1968

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Zofia Kossak-Szczucka (Polish pronunciation: [ˈzɔfʲja ˈkɔssak ˈʂt͡ʂut͡ska] (also Kossak-Szatkowska); 10 August 1889 – 9 April 1968) was a Polish writer and World War II resistance fighter. She co-founded two wartime Polish organizations: Front for the Rebirth of Poland and Żegota, set up to assist Polish Jews to escape the Holocaust. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Zofia Kossak-Szczucka has received more than 120,615 page views. Her biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Zofia Kossak-Szczucka is the 3,800th most popular writer (up from 3,832nd in 2019), the 799th most popular biography from Poland (down from 780th in 2019) and the 91st most popular Polish Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 120k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 50.83

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.94

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.15

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Złota wolność
Fiction, Poland in fiction, History
1945
Krzyżowcy
Crusades, Fiction
1947
The leper king
History, Fiction
1945
Nieznany kraj
Fiction
1958
Z otchłani
Birkenau (Concentration camp), World War, 1939-1945, Concentration camps
1946
Dziedzictwo
Poland, Social life and customs
1961

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Zofia Kossak-Szczucka ranks 3,800 out of 7,302. Before her are Diphilus, Remmius Palaemon, Antonio Buero Vallejo, Kalhana, Stevan Sremac, and Eric Ambler. After her are Teffi, Kočo Racin, François Cavanna, Torgny Lindgren, Francis Scott Key, and Gennadius of Massilia.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1889, Zofia Kossak-Szczucka ranks 172. Before her are James Whale, Marcel Pilet-Golaz, Erich Pommer, Recep Peker, Alfonso Reyes, and Amrit Kaur. After her are Jean-Baptiste Janssens, Gottfried Fuchs, Arthur Waley, Zofia Zamenhof, Ostap Vyshnya, and Sadhu Sundar Singh. Among people deceased in 1968, Zofia Kossak-Szczucka ranks 130. Before her are Chana Orloff, Albert Betz, Fay Bainter, Ludowika Jakobsson, Lajos Csordás, and Weegee. After her are Fernando Giudicelli, Juan José Tramutola, Ignatius Gabriel I Tappouni, Nikifor, Vahram Papazian, and Ivan Pyryev.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Zofia Kossak-Szczucka ranks 799 out of 1,694. Before her are Tadeusz Konwicki (1926), Erika Steinbach (1943), Carl Tausig (1841), Józef Chełmoński (1849), Wilhelm Julius Foerster (1832), and Stanisław Staszic (1755). After her are Johann Dzierzon (1811), Ida Siekmann (1902), Joanna Pacuła (1957), Marek Belka (1952), Hugo von Seeliger (1849), and Boris Kaufman (1906).

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Among WRITERS In Poland

Among writers born in Poland, Zofia Kossak-Szczucka ranks 91. Before her are Martin Gray (1922), Rutka Laskier (1929), Marcin Kromer (1512), Kurd Lasswitz (1848), Duchess Agnes of Württemberg (1835), and Tadeusz Konwicki (1926). After her are Jędrzej Śniadecki (1768), Zofia Nałkowska (1884), Gustaw Herling-Grudziński (1919), Simonas Daukantas (1793), Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński (1921), and Horst Bienek (1930).

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