WRITER

Florian Ceynowa

1817 - 1881

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Florian Stanisław Ceynowa (Kashubian Florión Cenôwa) (May 4, 1817 – March 26, 1881) was a doctor, political activist, writer, and linguist. He was a pioneer of the nationalist movement among the Kashubian people in the mid-19th century. Ceynowa undertook efforts to identify the Kashubian language, culture and traditions. He and Alexander Hilferding were not the only ones to study the language and legends of the Kashubians, but they had the greatest influence and prompted others to take up investigations. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Florian Ceynowa is the 4,384th most popular writer (up from 4,489th in 2019), the 917th most popular biography from Poland (up from 921st in 2019) and the 103rd most popular Polish Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Florian Ceynowa ranks 4,384 out of 7,302Before him are Adalet Ağaoğlu, Georges Courteline, Pierre Daninos, Sergei Mavrodi, Irving Wallace, and Myriam Harry. After him are René Depestre, Tadeusz Boy-Żeleński, Arturo Uslar Pietri, Felisberto Hernández, Mirza Alakbar Sabir, and Nagarjun.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1817, Florian Ceynowa ranks 68Before him are Ernest Hébert, Adolphe Yvon, Richard Dadd, Karbalayi Safikhan Karabakhi, Alfred Des Cloizeaux, and Konstantin Aksakov. After him are Alexandros Koumoundouros, Braxton Bragg, Heinrich von Sybel, Christen Andreas Fonnesbech, Christian Emil Krag-Juel-Vind-Frijs, and Richard Spruce. Among people deceased in 1881, Florian Ceynowa ranks 68Before him are Robert Mallet, Ercole Dembowski, Mary Seacole, Andrei Zhelyabov, Ambrose Burnside, and Franz Felix Adalbert Kuhn. After him are Theodor Benfey, Jean-Baptiste Nothomb, Salvador Jovellanos, Gustav von Alvensleben, Jānis Cimze, and Wilhelm Matthias Naeff.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Florian Ceynowa ranks 917 out of 1,694Before him are Andrzej Bartkowiak (1950), Karl Decker (1897), Anna Dymna (1951), Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz (1950), Ewa Demarczyk (1941), and Friedrich von Adelung (1768). After him are Karol Kurpiński (1785), Tadeusz Boy-Żeleński (1874), Marek Jędraszewski (1949), Karl von Holtei (1798), Christian Hoffmann von Hoffmannswaldau (1616), and Konstanty Ildefons Gałczyński (1905).

Among WRITERS In Poland

Among writers born in Poland, Florian Ceynowa ranks 103Before him are Jurek Becker (1937), Agnieszka Osiecka (1936), Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński (1921), Willibald Alexis (1798), Arno Holz (1863), and Eva Kotchever (1891). After him are Tadeusz Boy-Żeleński (1874), Karl von Holtei (1798), Christian Hoffmann von Hoffmannswaldau (1616), Konstanty Ildefons Gałczyński (1905), Łukasz Górnicki (1527), and Hanna Krall (1935).