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Jovan Sterija Popović

1806 - 1856

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Jovan Sterija Popović (pronounced [jɔ̌v̞an stɛ̂ːrija pɔ̌pɔv̞it͡ɕ]; Serbian Cyrillic: Јован Стерија Поповић; 13 January 1806 – 10 March 1856) was a Serbian language playwright, poet, lawyer, philosopher and pedagogue who taught at the Belgrade Higher School. He was a resident and subject of the Austrian Empire his entire life, although he did spend eight years in the Principality of Serbia. Sterija was recognized by his contemporaries as one of the leading Serbian intellectuals and he is regarded as one of the best comic playwrights in Serbian literature. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jovan Sterija Popović is the 4,067th most popular writer (down from 3,543rd in 2019), the 213th most popular biography from Serbia (down from 191st in 2019) and the 20th most popular Serbian Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Jovan Sterija Popović ranks 4,067 out of 7,302. Before him are Paul Fort, Adam Naruszewicz, Gene Wolfe, Louis Hémon, Marc Levy, and Edith Bruck. After him are Leigh Brackett, Shushanik Kurghinian, Eric Frank Russell, Hovhannes Shiraz, Garsenda, Countess of Forcalquier, and Nuruddin Farah.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1806, Jovan Sterija Popović ranks 42. Before him are Henriette Sontag, Michel Chevalier, Count Anton Alexander von Auersperg, Émile Souvestre, Christian August Friedrich Peters, and Julius Hübner. After him are Georg Adolf Erman, Stand Watie, Fabre Geffrard, Aristeidis Moraitinis, Jane Pierce, and Michele Amari. Among people deceased in 1856, Jovan Sterija Popović ranks 42. Before him are Lev Perovski, Karel Havlíček Borovský, Agostino Bassi, Henry Pottinger, Ernst Gottlieb von Steudel, and Ninomiya Sontoku. After him are Josef Kajetán Tyl, Johan August Wahlberg, Nicaise Auguste Desvaux, Ivan Kireyevsky, Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet, and Michel Félix Dunal.

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In Serbia

Among people born in Serbia, Jovan Sterija Popović ranks 213 out of 661. Before him are Goran Paskaljević (1947), Peter Leko (1979), Zoran Lilić (1953), Mirjana Karanović (1957), Mihailo Petrović (1868), and Đorđe Vujadinović (1909). After him are Lazar Ristovski (1952), Bogoljub Jevtić (1886), Milenko Radomar Vesnić (1862), Marija Šerifović (1984), Dragan Pantelić (1951), and Emina Jahović (1982).

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Among WRITERS In Serbia

Among writers born in Serbia, Jovan Sterija Popović ranks 20. Before him are Laza Lazarević (1851), Stevan Sremac (1855), Aleksandar Tišma (1924), Borisav Stanković (1876), Mika Antić (1932), and Milovan Glišić (1847). After him are Dušan Kovačević (1948), Jovan Rajić (1726), Prvoslav Vujcic (1960), Svetlana Velmar-Janković (1933), Mira Alečković (1924), and Dejan Ajdačić (1959).

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