WRITER

Ľudovít Štúr

1815 - 1856

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Ľudovít Štúr (Slovak pronunciation: [ˈʎudɔʋiːt ˈʃtuːr]; 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 201,055 page views. His biography is available in 43 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 42 in 2019). Ľudovít Štúr is the 1,035th most popular writer (down from 1,024th in 2019), the 27th most popular biography from Slovakia (up from 28th 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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  • 200k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 61.47

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 43

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.88

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.27

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Ľudovít Štúr ranks 1,035 out of 7,302. Before him are P. D. James, Charles De Coster, B. H. Liddell Hart, Johanna Schopenhauer, Marshall Rosenberg, and Sam Shepard. After him are Hassan ibn Thabit, Paulinus of Nola, Fyodor Tyutchev, Marcel Pagnol, D. T. Suzuki, and Cai Yan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1815, Ľudovít Štúr ranks 13. Before him are Louis-Jules Trochu, Adolph Menzel, Johann Jakob Bachofen, Ildefons Cerdà, Thomas Couture, and Julia Margaret Cameron. After him are Josip Juraj Strossmayer, Lorenz von Stein, Ernest Meissonier, Giuseppina Strepponi, Pierre Napoléon Bonaparte, and Andreas Achenbach. Among people deceased in 1856, Ľudovít Štúr ranks 10. Before him are Max Stirner, Adolphe Adam, Nikolai Lobachevsky, Paul Delaroche, Ivan Paskevich, and Étienne Cabet. After him are 11th Dalai Lama, Théodore Chassériau, Farkas Bolyai, Manuela Sáenz, Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall, and Florestan I, Prince of Monaco.

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In Slovakia

Among people born in Slovakia, Ľudovít Štúr ranks 27 out of 418. Before him are Jozef Gabčík (1912), Milan Rastislav Štefánik (1880), Zuzana Čaputová (1973), Rudolf Schuster (1934), Wolfgang von Kempelen (1734), and Pribina (800). After him are Andrej Hlinka (1864), Ernst von Dohnányi (1877), Gyula Andrássy the Younger (1860), Edita Gruberová (1946), Richard Réti (1889), and Andrej Babiš (1954).

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Among WRITERS In Slovakia

Among writers born in Slovakia, Ľudovít Štúr ranks 3. Before him are Pavel Jozef Šafárik (1795), and Tibor Sekelj (1912). After him are Vladimír Clementis (1902), Bálint Balassi (1554), Pavol Országh Hviezdoslav (1849), Imre Madách (1823), Kálmán Mikszáth (1847), Alexander Dukhnovych (1803), Jozef Miloslav Hurban (1817), Lajos Kassák (1887), and Janko Matúška (1821).

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