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Adam Mickiewicz

1798 - 1855

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Adam Bernard Mickiewicz (24 December 1798 – 26 November 1855) was a Polish poet, dramatist, essayist, publicist, translator and political activist. He is regarded as national poet in Poland, Lithuania and Belarus. He also largely influenced Ukrainian literature. A principal figure in Polish Romanticism, he is one of Poland's "Three Bards" (Polish: Trzej Wieszcze) and is widely regarded as Poland's greatest poet. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Adam Mickiewicz is the 189th most popular writer (down from 136th in 2019), the 20th most popular biography from Poland (down from 14th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Polish Writer.

Adam Mickiewicz is most famous for being the author of the epic poem "Pan Tadeusz."

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Among writers, Adam Mickiewicz ranks 189 out of 7,302. Before him are Mikhail Bulgakov, Catullus, Taras Shevchenko, Murasaki Shikibu, Lope de Vega, and John Steinbeck. After him are Sigrid Undset, Halldór Laxness, Petronius, Georges Simenon, Tove Jansson, and Fuzûlî.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1798, Adam Mickiewicz ranks 3. Before him are Auguste Comte, and Eugène Delacroix. After him are Pedro I of Brazil, Jules Michelet, Alexandra Feodorovna, Charles Albert of Sardinia, Giacomo Leopardi, Josiah Warren, Marie-Caroline of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Duchess of Berry, František Palacký, and Mpande kaSenzangakhona. Among people deceased in 1855, Adam Mickiewicz ranks 5. Before him are Carl Friedrich Gauss, Søren Kierkegaard, Nicholas I of Russia, and Charlotte Brontë. After him are Gérard de Nerval, William John Swainson, Adelaide of Austria, Infante Carlos, Count of Molina, Maria Theresa of Austria, William Parry, and Pavel Nakhimov.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Adam Mickiewicz ranks 20 out of 1,694. Before him are Günter Grass (1927), Johann Gottfried Herder (1744), Henryk Sienkiewicz (1846), Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit (1686), Wisława Szymborska (1923), and Fritz Haber (1868). After him are Eric of Pomerania (1381), Otto Stern (1888), Wernher von Braun (1912), Janusz Korczak (1878), Isaac Bashevis Singer (1902), and Erich Ludendorff (1865).

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Among WRITERS In Poland

Among writers born in Poland, Adam Mickiewicz ranks 4. Before him are Günter Grass (1927), Henryk Sienkiewicz (1846), and Wisława Szymborska (1923). After him are Janusz Korczak (1878), Isaac Bashevis Singer (1902), Gerhart Hauptmann (1862), Andrzej Sapkowski (1948), Alfred Döblin (1878), Władysław Reymont (1867), Osip Mandelstam (1891), and Olga Tokarczuk (1962).

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