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Kelemen Mikes

1690 - 1761

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Kelemen Mikes (1690–1761) was a Transylvanian-born Hungarian political figure and essayist, noted for his rebellious activities against the Habsburg monarchy. Mikes is referred to as the "Hungarian Goethe", made famous by his Letters from Turkey. With these, Mikes laid the foundations of Hungarian literary prose, and he is regarded as one of the first Hungarian prose authors. He was born in Zágon and grew up in Zabola (present-day Covasna County, Romania). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Kelemen Mikes is the 14,480th most popular politician (down from 14,088th in 2019). (down from 3,768th in 2019)

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Among politicians, Kelemen Mikes ranks 14,480 out of 19,576Before him are Yossi Beilin, Oscar von Sydow, Sergey Lebedev, Vesna Pusić, Huang Ju, and Abel Muzorewa. After him are Frank Hsieh, Edward Natapei, Joseph Cook, Vsevolod of Pskov, Meira Kumar, and Sigeberht the Good.

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Among people born in 1690, Kelemen Mikes ranks 15Before him are Victor Amadeus I, Prince of Carignano, Peter Tordenskjold, Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai, Patrona Halil, Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel, and Edward Low. After him are Christopher Middleton, and John Carteret, 2nd Earl Granville. Among people deceased in 1761, Kelemen Mikes ranks 20Before him are John Dollond, Charles Louis Auguste Fouquet, duc de Belle-Isle, Francesco Feo, Giovanni Poleni, Louis George, Margrave of Baden-Baden, and Johann Georg Pinsel. After him are Christian Ferdinand Abel, and Princess Dorothea of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck.

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