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Jan Potocki

1761 - 1815

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Count Jan Potocki (Polish pronunciation: [ˈjan pɔˈtɔt͡skʲi]; 8 March 1761 – 23 December 1815) was a Polish nobleman, ethnologist, linguist, traveller and author of the Enlightenment period, whose life and exploits made him a celebrated figure in Poland. He is known chiefly for his picaresque novel, The Manuscript Found in Saragossa. Born into affluent Polish nobility, Potocki lived abroad from an early age and was primarily educated in Switzerland. He frequently visited the salons of Paris and toured Europe before temporarily returning to Poland in 1778. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jan Potocki is the 790th most popular writer (up from 805th in 2019), the 169th most popular biography from Poland and the 15th most popular Polish Writer.

Jan Potocki is most famous for his novel, The Manuscript Found in Saragossa.

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Among writers, Jan Potocki ranks 790 out of 7,302. Before him are Ben Jonson, Jerome K. Jerome, Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, Gnaeus Naevius, Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, and Tao Yuanming. After him are Edward Bernays, Wang Wei, Nonnus, Milorad Pavić, Dionysius Thrax, and Marilyn vos Savant.

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Among people born in 1761, Jan Potocki ranks 6. Before him are Pope Pius VIII, Selim III, Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly, Marie Tussaud, and Christiaan Hendrik Persoon. After him are Jean-Charles Pichegru, August von Kotzebue, William Carey, Philippe Buonarroti, Georg I, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen, and Smithson Tennant. Among people deceased in 1815, Jan Potocki ranks 7. Before him are Joachim Murat, Michel Ney, Sarah Baartman, Franz Mesmer, Robert Fulton, and Louis-Alexandre Berthier. After him are Guillaume Brune, Carsten Niebuhr, Emma, Lady Hamilton, José María Morelos, Smithson Tennant, and Prince Josias of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Jan Potocki ranks 169 out of 1,694. Before him are Clara Immerwahr (1870), Rochus Misch (1917), Witold Lutosławski (1913), Jarosław Kaczyński (1949), Andrzej Duda (1972), and Maria Feodorovna (1759). After him are Maxim Litvinov (1876), Solomon Asch (1907), Georg Michaelis (1857), Benzion Netanyahu (1910), Hans-Jürgen von Arnim (1889), and Erich Mendelsohn (1887).

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Among WRITERS In Poland

Among writers born in Poland, Jan Potocki ranks 15. Before him are Alfred Döblin (1878), Władysław Reymont (1867), Osip Mandelstam (1891), Olga Tokarczuk (1962), Witold Gombrowicz (1904), and Christa Wolf (1929). After him are Jerzy Kosiński (1933), Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff (1788), Ernst Toller (1893), Bolesław Prus (1847), Emil Ludwig (1881), and B. Traven (1882).

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