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Gregory Skovoroda

1722 - 1794

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Hryhorii Skovoroda, also Gregory Skovoroda or Grigory Skovoroda (Latin: Gregorius Scovoroda; Ukrainian: Григорій Савич Сковорода, Hryhorii Savych Skovoroda; Russian: Григо́рий Са́ввич Сковорода́, Grigory Savvich Skovoroda; 3 December 1722 – 9 November 1794), was a philosopher of Ukrainian Cossack origin who lived and worked in the Russian Empire. He was a poet, a teacher and a composer of liturgical music. His significant influence on his contemporaries and succeeding generations and his way of life were universally regarded as Socratic, and he was often called a "Socrates". Skovoroda, whose native tongue was vernacular Ukrainian, wrote his texts in a mixture of three languages: Church Slavonic, Ukrainian, and Russian, with some elements from Latin and Greek and a large number of Western-Europeanisms. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Gregory Skovoroda is the 1,023rd most popular writer (down from 764th in 2019), the 135th most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 107th in 2019) and the 24th most popular Ukrainian Writer.

Gregory Skovoroda is most famous for his work as a poet.

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Among writers, Gregory Skovoroda ranks 1,023 out of 7,302. Before him are Nicolas Chamfort, Johann Peter Eckermann, Clément Marot, Eleanor H. Porter, Ann Radcliffe, and John Fowles. After him are Egeria, Madeleine de Scudéry, Jean-Claude Carrière, Alexandra David-Néel, Edith Södergran, and Paulinus of Nola.

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Among people born in 1722, Gregory Skovoroda ranks 4. Before him are Ahmad Shah Durrani, Frederick Christian, Elector of Saxony, and Prince Augustus William of Prussia. After him are Georg Benda, Axel Fredrik Cronstedt, Jazzar Pasha, Paisius of Hilendar, Samuel Adams, Duchess Luise of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Leopold Auenbrugger, and Heinrich Johann Nepomuk von Crantz. Among people deceased in 1794, Gregory Skovoroda ranks 18. Before him are André Chénier, Georges Couthon, William Jones, Jacques Hébert, Wenzel Anton, Prince of Kaunitz-Rietberg, and Nicolas Chamfort. After him are Augustin Robespierre, Countess Palatine Maria Franziska of Sulzbach, Rudolf Erich Raspe, Sheikh Mansur, Duchess Sophia Frederica of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, and Adolphus Frederick IV, Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Gregory Skovoroda ranks 135 out of 1,365. Before him are Olga Kurylenko (1979), Sviatopolk II of Kiev (1050), Milla Jovovich (1975), Oleksandr Turchynov (1964), Vladimir Gelfand (1923), and Nikolai Ryzhkov (1929). After him are Vitold Fokin (1932), Boris Shcherbina (1919), Pacatianus (200), Valentyn Sylvestrov (1937), Nikolay Nekrasov (1821), and Isaac Stern (1920).

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Among WRITERS In Ukraine

Among writers born in Ukraine, Gregory Skovoroda ranks 24. Before him are Irène Némirovsky (1903), Bruno Schulz (1892), Ze'ev Jabotinsky (1880), Clarice Lispector (1920), Nikolai Ostrovsky (1904), and Władysław Tarnowski (1836). After him are Nikolay Nekrasov (1821), Juliusz Słowacki (1809), Hayim Nahman Bialik (1873), Stanisław Jerzy Lec (1909), Ivan Kotliarevsky (1769), and Vladimir Korolenko (1853).

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