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Marcin Bielski

1495 - 1575

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Marcin Bielski (or Wolski; 1495 – 18 December 1575) was a Polish soldier, historian, chronicler, renaissance satirical poet, writer and translator. His son, Joachim Bielski, royal secretary to king Sigismund III Vasa, was also a historian and poet. He was born of noble parentage on the patrimonial estate of Biała (whence the family name), Pajęczno County, in the Polish province of Sieradz. His alternate surname Wolski derives from his estate at Wola. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Marcin Bielski is the 3,029th most popular writer (up from 3,424th in 2019), the 668th most popular biography from Poland (up from 742nd in 2019) and the 68th most popular Polish Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Marcin Bielski ranks 3,029 out of 7,302. Before him are Censorinus, Nobuko Yoshiya, Ishaq ibn Hunayn, Hansa Jivraj Mehta, Siegfried Sassoon, and Gunilla Bergström. After him are Raffi, Takuboku Ishikawa, Christoph Friedrich Nicolai, Gerard Reve, Arthur Cravan, and Þorbjörn Hornklofi.

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Among people born in 1495, Marcin Bielski ranks 13. Before him are Enrique of Malacca, Barbara Zápolya, Louis X, Duke of Bavaria, Luigi Alamanni, Giampietrino, and Otto I, Duke of Brunswick-Harburg. After him are Nicolas Gombert, Melchior Hoffman, and Pascual de Andagoya. Among people deceased in 1575, Marcin Bielski ranks 11. Before him are Antonis Mor, Heinrich Bullinger, Joseph Karo, Francesco Maurolico, Cornelis Floris de Vriendt, and Christopher II, Margrave of Baden-Rodemachern. After him are Sabina of Brandenburg-Ansbach, Sophia Jagiellon, Duchess of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Corneille de Lyon, Federico Commandino, Baba Nobuharu, and Annibale Padovano.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Marcin Bielski ranks 668 out of 1,694. Before him are Martin Rathke (1793), Ewald-Heinrich von Kleist-Schmenzin (1922), Józef Glemp (1929), Theodor Kaluza (1885), Tadeusz Ajdukiewicz (1852), and Hermann Boehm (1884). After him are George I, Duke of Pomerania (1493), Eugen Goldstein (1860), Bronisława Wajs (1908), August Hlond (1881), Hilary Koprowski (1916), and Heinrich Graetz (1817).

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Among WRITERS In Poland

Among writers born in Poland, Marcin Bielski ranks 68. Before him are Isaac Deutscher (1907), Adam Michnik (1946), Alexander Imich (1903), Aleksander Fredro (1793), Zofia Posmysz (1923), and Stefanie Zweig (1932). After him are Bronisława Wajs (1908), Yakov Perelman (1882), Maria Wirtemberska (1768), Ernst Wiechert (1887), Rutka Laskier (1929), and Maria Dąbrowska (1889).

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