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Janusz Korczak

1878 - 1942

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Janusz Korczak, the pen name of Henryk Goldszmit (22 July 1878 or 1879 – 7 August 1942), was a Polish Jewish pediatrician, educator, children's author and pedagogue known as Pan Doktor ("Mr. Doctor") or Stary Doktor ("Old Doctor"). He was an early children's rights advocate, in 1919 drafting a children's constitution. After spending many years working as a principal of an orphanage in Warsaw, he moved in with his orphans when the orphanage was forced to move to the ghetto, despite pleas from friends to flee the country. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Janusz Korczak is the 217th most popular writer (down from 191st in 2019), the 24th most popular biography from Poland (down from 23rd in 2019) and the 5th most popular Polish Writer.

Janusz Korczak was a Polish-Jewish educator and children's author. He is most famous for being the director of an orphanage in Warsaw, Poland.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Janusz Korczak ranks 217 out of 7,302Before him are Frédéric Mistral, Karel Čapek, Carlo Goldoni, Pearl S. Buck, George Sand, and Roger Martin du Gard. After him are Constantine VII, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Torquato Tasso, Chinghiz Aitmatov, Lu Xun, and Stanisław Lem.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1878, Janusz Korczak ranks 2Before him is Lise Meitner. After him are Martin Buber, John B. Watson, Reza Shah, Gustav Stresemann, Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich of Russia, Werner von Blomberg, Manuel L. Quezon, Pancho Villa, André Citroën, and Alfred Döblin. Among people deceased in 1942, Janusz Korczak ranks 3Before him are Stefan Zweig, and Reinhard Heydrich. After him are Richard Willstätter, Edith Stein, José Raúl Capablanca, Jean Baptiste Perrin, William Henry Bragg, Bronisław Malinowski, Robert Musil, Walther von Reichenau, and Anton Drexler.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Janusz Korczak ranks 24 out of 1,694Before him are Wisława Szymborska (1923), Fritz Haber (1868), Adam Mickiewicz (1798), Eric of Pomerania (1381), Otto Stern (1888), and Wernher von Braun (1912). After him are Isaac Bashevis Singer (1902), Erich Ludendorff (1865), Marie Leszczyńska (1703), Fedor von Bock (1880), Władysław Szpilman (1911), and Lech Kaczyński (1949).

Among WRITERS In Poland

Among writers born in Poland, Janusz Korczak ranks 5Before him are Günter Grass (1927), Henryk Sienkiewicz (1846), Wisława Szymborska (1923), and Adam Mickiewicz (1798). After him are Isaac Bashevis Singer (1902), Gerhart Hauptmann (1862), Andrzej Sapkowski (1948), Alfred Döblin (1878), Władysław Reymont (1867), Osip Mandelstam (1891), and Olga Tokarczuk (1962).