SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Emilia Plater

1806 - 1831

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Countess Emilia Broel-Plater (Lithuanian: Emilija Pliaterytė; 13 November 1806 – 23 December 1831) was a Polish–Lithuanian noblewoman and revolutionary from the lands of the partitioned Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. Raised in a patriotic tradition in Līksna near Daugavpils, she fought in the November Uprising of 1830–1831 against the Russian Empire. She raised a small unit, participated in several engagements in present-day Lithuania, and received the rank of captain in the Polish insurgent forces. When the main forces under the General Dezydery Chłapowski decided to cease fighting and cross into Prussia, Plater vowed to continue the fight and wanted to cross into Poland where the uprising was still ongoing. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Emilia Plater is the 71st most popular social activist (up from 82nd in 2019), the 15th most popular biography from Lithuania (up from 18th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Lithuanian Social Activist.

Emilia Plater is most famous for being a Polish-Lithuanian writer and journalist. She was a member of the Polish resistance movement during World War II.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Emilia Plater ranks 71 out of 840. Before her are Túpac Amaru II, Angela Davis, Alexey Stakhanov, Jody Williams, Mustafa Barzani, and José Rizal. After her are Yun Chi-ho, Horst Wessel, Babak Khorramdin, Gunnar Sønsteby, Camilo Cienfuegos, and Aleksandr Ulyanov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1806, Emilia Plater ranks 6. Before her are John Stuart Mill, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Max Stirner, Benito Juárez, and Augustus De Morgan. After her are Catherine Labouré, Maria Christina of the Two Sicilies, Alexander Karađorđević, Prince of Serbia, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Charles Gleyre, and Omar Pasha. Among people deceased in 1831, Emilia Plater ranks 10. Before her are Louis Jean Pierre Vieillot, Sophie Germain, Napoléon Louis Bonaparte, Friedrich Wilhelm, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, Archduke Rudolf of Austria, and Ioannis Kapodistrias. After her are Achim von Arnim, Princess Louise of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg, Charles Felix of Sardinia, Grand Duke Konstantin Pavlovich of Russia, August Neidhardt von Gneisenau, and Countess Augusta Reuss of Ebersdorf.

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In Lithuania

Among people born in Lithuania, Emilia Plater ranks 15 out of 328. Before her are Emma Goldman (1869), Algirdas (1296), Romain Gary (1914), Eliezer Ben-Yehuda (1858), Wilfrid Voynich (1865), and Kęstutis (1297). After her are Dalia Grybauskaitė (1956), Antanas Smetona (1874), César Cui (1835), Valdas Adamkus (1926), Pyotr Wrangel (1878), and Jascha Heifetz (1901).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In Lithuania

Among social activists born in Lithuania, Emilia Plater ranks 2. Before her are Emma Goldman (1869). After her are Klara Zamenhof (1863), Romas Kalanta (1953), and Iosif Grigulevich (1913).

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