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Kristijonas Donelaitis

1714 - 1780

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Kristijonas Donelaitis (Latin: Christian Donalitius; 1 January 1714 – 18 February 1780) was a Prussian Lithuanian poet and Lutheran pastor. He lived and worked in Lithuania Minor, a territory in the Kingdom of Prussia, that had a sizable Lithuanian-speaking minority. He wrote the first classic Lithuanian language poem, The Seasons (Lithuanian: Metai), which became one of the principal works of Lithuanian poetry. The poem, a classic work of Lithuanian literature, depicts everyday life of Lithuanian peasants, their struggle with serfdom, and the annual cycle of life. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Kristijonas Donelaitis is the 1,525th most popular writer (up from 2,384th in 2019), the 528th most popular biography from Russia (up from 867th in 2019) and the 65th most popular Russian Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Kristijonas Donelaitis ranks 1,525 out of 7,302. Before him are Ichiyō Higuchi, Xavier de Maistre, Jules Laforgue, Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, Georgi Markov, and Károly Kerényi. After him are Erich Segal, Betty Friedan, Alphonse Allais, Khaqani, Qiu Chuji, and Per Olov Enquist.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1714, Kristijonas Donelaitis ranks 10. Before him are Étienne Bonnot de Condillac, Joseph I of Portugal, Pontiac, Claude Joseph Vernet, Alaungpaya, and Niccolò Jommelli. After him are Jean-Baptiste Pigalle, Emer de Vattel, Nikolaus I, Prince Esterházy, Duke Anthony Ulrich of Brunswick, César-François Cassini de Thury, and Princess Friederike Luise of Prussia. Among people deceased in 1780, Kristijonas Donelaitis ranks 8. Before him are Étienne Bonnot de Condillac, Bernardo Bellotto, Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine, Duchess Maria Antonia of Bavaria, Francesco III d'Este, Duke of Modena, and Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont. After him are Ernest Frederick III, Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen, Jacques-Germain Soufflot, Charles I, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Hiraga Gennai, Duchess Luise of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, and Victor Amadeus II, Prince of Carignano.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Kristijonas Donelaitis ranks 528 out of 3,761. Before him are Semyon Dezhnev (1605), Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov (1859), Valentin Ivanov (1934), Nikolay Pavlovich Ignatyev (1832), Chaim Rumkowski (1877), and Yuriy Yekhanurov (1948). After him are Valeri Polyakov (1942), Elem Klimov (1933), Ales Bialiatski (1962), Korney Chukovsky (1882), Vladimir Arsenyev (1872), and Mikhail Fradkov (1950).

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Among WRITERS In Russia

Among writers born in Russia, Kristijonas Donelaitis ranks 65. Before him are Bulat Okudzhava (1924), Elsa Triolet (1896), Sergey Mikhalkov (1913), Salawat Yulayev (1754), Viktor Suvorov (1947), and Vasily Shukshin (1929). After him are Korney Chukovsky (1882), John of Kronstadt (1829), Konstantin Simonov (1915), Aleksandr Kuprin (1870), Konstantin Paustovsky (1892), and Denis Fonvizin (1745).

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