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Ľudovít Štúr

1815 - 1856

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Ľudevít Štúr (Slovak pronunciation: [ˈʎudɔʋiːt ˈʂtuːr]; 28 October 1815 – 12 January 1856), also known as Ľudovít Velislav Štúr, was a Slovak revolutionary, politician, and writer. As a leader of the Slovak national revival in the 19th century, and the author of the Slovak language standard, he is lauded as one of the most important figures in Slovak history. Štúr was an organizer of the Slovak volunteer campaigns during the Hungarian Revolution of 1848. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ľudovít Štúr has received more than 185,775 page views. His biography is available in 42 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 40 in 2019). Ľudovít Štúr is the 1,026th most popular writer (up from 1,117th in 2019), the 28th most popular biography from Slovakia (down from 25th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Slovak Writer.

Ľudovít Štúr is most famous for being a Slovak patriot and reformer who created the Slovak language and wrote the first codified grammar. He also led the Slovak National Council and was a member of the Slovak Diet.

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  • 42

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.44

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.28

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Ľudovít Štúr ranks 1,026 out of 5,755Before him are Bar Hebraeus, Julien Green, Derek Walcott, Bernhard Schlink, Johannes Valentinus Andreae, and Ernst Toller. After him are Egill Skallagrímsson, Shoko Asahara, Bāṇabhaṭṭa, Jerome K. Jerome, Marcus Minucius Felix, and John Malalas.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1815, Ľudovít Štúr ranks 13Before him are Adolph Menzel, Thomas Couture, Johann Jakob Bachofen, Louis-Jules Trochu, Julia Margaret Cameron, and Ildefons Cerdà. After him are Ernest Meissonier, Josip Juraj Strossmayer, Lorenz von Stein, Princess Elisabeth of Prussia, Giuseppina Strepponi, and Pierre Napoléon Bonaparte. Among people deceased in 1856, Ľudovít Štúr ranks 9Before him are Amedeo Avogadro, Max Stirner, Nikolai Lobachevsky, Adolphe Adam, Paul Delaroche, and Ivan Paskevich. After him are Étienne Cabet, Florestan I, Prince of Monaco, Manuela Sáenz, 11th Dalai Lama, Théodore Chassériau, and Farkas Bolyai.

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In Slovakia

Among people born in Slovakia, Ľudovít Štúr ranks 28 out of 357Before him are Vladimír Mečiar (1942), Ármin Vámbéry (1832), Wolfgang von Kempelen (1734), Ivan Reitman (1946), Tibor Sekelj (1912), and Ernst von Dohnányi (1877). After him are Pribina (800), Zuzana Čaputová (1973), Rudolf Schuster (1934), Milan Rastislav Štefánik (1880), Vojtech Tuka (1880), and Andrej Hlinka (1864).

Among WRITERS In Slovakia

Among writers born in Slovakia, Ľudovít Štúr ranks 3Before him are Pavel Jozef Šafárik (1795) and Tibor Sekelj (1912). After him are Ján Kollár (1793), Bálint Balassi (1554), Vladimír Clementis (1902), Imre Madách (1823), Kálmán Mikszáth (1847), Pavol Országh Hviezdoslav (1849), Jozef Miloslav Hurban (1817), Janko Matúška (1821), and Lajos Kassák (1887).