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Marcin Kromer

1512 - 1589

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Marcin Kromer (Latin: Martinus Cromerus; 11 November 1512 – 23 March 1589) was Prince-Bishop of Warmia (Ermland), a Polish cartographer, diplomat and historian in the Kingdom of Poland and later in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. He was a personal secretary to two Kings of Poland, Sigismund I the Old and Sigismund II Augustus. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Marcin Kromer is the 3,635th most popular writer (down from 3,614th in 2019), the 779th most popular biography from Poland (down from 774th in 2019) and the 87th most popular Polish Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Marcin Kromer ranks 3,635 out of 7,302Before him are Hans Erich Nossack, Buhturi, Otfrid of Weissenburg, Gaito Gazdanov, Zofia Kossak-Szczucka, and Olga Bergholz. After him are William Goldman, Fritz Reuter, Fernando de Herrera, Philoxenus of Cythera, Philips of Marnix, Lord of Saint-Aldegonde, and Gonzalo Torrente Ballester.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1512, Marcin Kromer ranks 17Before him are Mikołaj "the Red" Radziwiłł, Prospero Fontana, Diego Laynez, Jerónimo Zurita y Castro, Cristoforo Madruzzo, and Galeazzo Alessi. After him is Kamran Mirza. Among people deceased in 1589, Marcin Kromer ranks 15Before him are Jean-Antoine de Baïf, Bernard Palissy, Julius, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Michael Baius, Charles II, Lord of Monaco, and Heo Nanseolheon. After him are Jurij Dalmatin, and Philothei of Athens.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Marcin Kromer ranks 779 out of 1,694Before him are Dagmara Domińczyk (1976), Arthur Moritz Schoenflies (1853), Rudolf Ramek (1881), Rainer Barzel (1924), Władysław Taczanowski (1819), and Zofia Kossak-Szczucka (1889). After him are Joanna Chmielewska (1932), Abraham Brill (1874), Bernhard Goetzke (1884), Fritz Laband (1925), Kazimierz Sabbat (1913), and Edward Bernard Raczyński (1891).

Among WRITERS In Poland

Among writers born in Poland, Marcin Kromer ranks 87Before him are Kurd Lasswitz (1848), Jędrzej Śniadecki (1768), Anna Langfus (1920), Simonas Daukantas (1793), Johann Christian Günther (1695), and Zofia Kossak-Szczucka (1889). After him are Joanna Chmielewska (1932), Gustaw Herling-Grudziński (1919), Mascha Kaléko (1907), Halina Konopacka (1900), Duchess Agnes of Württemberg (1835), and Tadeusz Konwicki (1926).