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Imre Madách

1823 - 1864

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Imre Madách de Sztregova et Kelecsény (20 January 1823 – 5 October 1864) was a Hungarian aristocrat, writer, poet, lawyer and politician. His major work is The Tragedy of Man (Az ember tragédiája, 1861). It is a dramatic poem approximately 4000 lines long, which elaborates on ideas comparable to Goethe's Faust and Milton's Paradise Lost. The author was encouraged and advised by János Arany, one of the most famous of the 19th-century Hungarian poets. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Imre Madách is the 2,834th most popular writer (up from 3,206th in 2019), the 92nd most popular biography from Slovakia (up from 102nd in 2019) and the 6th most popular Slovak Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Imre Madách ranks 2,834 out of 7,302. Before him are Lucius Aelius Stilo Praeconinus, Ludwig Rellstab, Marthe Bibesco, William L. Shirer, Xu Zhimo, and Mihály Vörösmarty. After him are Guiraut Riquier, John Evelyn, Pavol Országh Hviezdoslav, Lucia Berlin, Carlo Emilio Gadda, and Harold Robbins.

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Among people born in 1823, Imre Madách ranks 41. Before him are Joseph Jean Pierre Laurent, Kurmangazy Sagyrbaev, Archduke Leopold Ludwig of Austria, Enrico Betti, Carl Wilhelm Siemens, and Schuyler Colfax. After him are Jacques-Nicolas Lemmens, Robert Whitehead, Count Richard Belcredi, Marietta Alboni, Giuseppe Fiorelli, and Alfred Stevens. Among people deceased in 1864, Imre Madách ranks 43. Before him are Jakob Lorber, Jean-Hippolyte Flandrin, Anton Schindler, Johann Lukas Schönlein, Charles Julien Brianchon, and Heinrich Rose. After him are Sakuma Shōzan, Simon von Stampfer, Franz Wilhelm Junghuhn, Luke Howard, Pedro Santana, and Simonas Daukantas.

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In Slovakia

Among people born in Slovakia, Imre Madách ranks 92 out of 418. Before him are Paul Kray (1735), Juraj Jakubisko (1938), Joseph Franz von Jacquin (1766), Johann Kaspar Mertz (1806), Ján Chryzostom Korec (1924), and László Hudec (1893). After him are Pavol Országh Hviezdoslav (1849), Archduchess Isabella of Austria (1888), Imre Németh (1917), Peter Machajdík (1961), Ernest Nagel (1901), and Štefan Čambal (1908).

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Among WRITERS In Slovakia

Among writers born in Slovakia, Imre Madách ranks 6. Before him are Tibor Sekelj (1912), Pavel Jozef Šafárik (1795), Ľudovít Štúr (1815), Bálint Balassi (1554), and Vladimír Clementis (1902). After him are Pavol Országh Hviezdoslav (1849), Alexander Dukhnovych (1803), Kálmán Mikszáth (1847), Jozef Miloslav Hurban (1817), Janko Matúška (1821), and Samo Chalupka (1812).

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