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France Prešeren

1800 - 1849

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France Prešeren (pronounced [fɾanˈtsɛ́ pɾɛˈʃèːɾən] ) (3 December 1800 – 8 February 1849) was a 19th-century Romantic Slovene poet whose poems have been translated into many languages. He has been considered the greatest Slovene classical poet and has inspired later Slovene literature. He wrote the first Slovene ballad and the first Slovene epic. After his death, he became the leading name of the Slovene literary canon. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. France Prešeren is the 479th most popular writer (down from 325th in 2019), the 6th most popular biography from Slovenia (down from 3rd in 2019) and the most popular Slovene Writer.

France Prešeren is most famous for being the national poet of Slovenia. He was born in 1800 and died in 1849.

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Among writers, France Prešeren ranks 479 out of 7,302. Before him are Françoise Sagan, Lactantius, André Maurois, Karl Barth, Ken Follett, and Savitribai Phule. After him are Milena Jesenská, Vladimir Vysotsky, Edward Said, Comte de Lautréamont, José Martí, and René Guénon.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1800, France Prešeren ranks 7. Before him are Friedrich Wöhler, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Helmuth von Moltke the Elder, John Edward Gray, Millard Fillmore, and Emperor Ninkō. After him are Charles Goodyear, Henry Fox Talbot, Jean-Baptiste Dumas, John Brown, Princess Louise of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg, and John Nelson Darby. Among people deceased in 1849, France Prešeren ranks 10. Before him are Hokusai, Muhammad Ali of Egypt, Johann Strauss I, Anne Brontë, William II of the Netherlands, and Sándor Petőfi. After him are Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner, Charles Albert of Sardinia, René Lesson, Şehzade Abdullah, Heonjong of Joseon, and Anita Garibaldi.

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In Slovenia

Among people born in Slovenia, France Prešeren ranks 6 out of 340. Before him are Melania Trump (1970), Giuseppe Tartini (1692), Arkan (1952), Slavoj Žižek (1949), and Barbara of Cilli (1392). After him are Hugo Wolf (1860), Franz Miklosich (1813), Jože Plečnik (1872), Santorio Santorio (1561), Milan Kučan (1941), and Janez Drnovšek (1950).

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Among WRITERS In Slovenia

Among writers born in Slovenia, France Prešeren ranks 1. After him are Ivan Cankar (1876), Jernej Kopitar (1780), Alma Karlin (1889), Sigismund von Herberstein (1486), Stanko Vraz (1810), Edvard Kocbek (1904), Drago Jančar (1948), Valentin Vodnik (1758), Oton Župančič (1878), Srečko Kosovel (1904), and Adam Bohorič (1520).

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