MILITARY PERSONNEL

Maurice Benyovszky

1746 - 1786

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Count Maurice Benyovszky de Benyó et Urbanó (Hungarian: Benyovszky Máté Móric Mihály Ferenc Szerafin Ágost; Polish: Maurycy Beniowski; Slovak: Móric Beňovský; 20 September 1746 – 24 May 1786) was a military officer, adventurer, and writer from the Kingdom of Hungary, who described himself as both a Hungarian and a Pole. He is considered a national hero in Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia. Benyovszky was born and raised in Verbó, Kingdom of Hungary (present-day Vrbové, Slovakia). In 1769, while fighting for the Polish armies under the Bar Confederation, he was captured by the Russians and exiled to Kamchatka. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Maurice Benyovszky is the 292nd most popular military personnel (up from 300th in 2019), the 17th most popular biography from Slovakia (down from 16th in 2019) and the most popular Slovak Military Personnel.

Maurice Benyovszky is most famous for being the first person to take a photo of the Taj Mahal.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Maurice Benyovszky ranks 292 out of 2,058. Before him are John Demjanjuk, Hasso von Manteuffel, Italo Gariboldi, Jean Victor Marie Moreau, Titus Labienus, and Theodore Roosevelt Jr.. After him are Reinhard Gehlen, Svetozar Boroević, Qutayba ibn Muslim, Yermak Timofeyevich, François Achille Bazaine, and Vasily Stalin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1746, Maurice Benyovszky ranks 10. Before him are Carlo Buonaparte, Tadeusz Kościuszko, Giuseppe Piazzi, Gaspard Monge, Archduchess Maria Amalia of Austria, and Robert R. Livingston. After him are William Jones, Sophia Magdalena of Denmark, Giovanni Battista Venturi, George XII of Georgia, Antoine Quentin Fouquier-Tinville, and Frederick Louis, Prince of Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen. Among people deceased in 1786, Maurice Benyovszky ranks 5. Before him are Frederick the Great, Carl Wilhelm Scheele, Moses Mendelssohn, and Peter III of Portugal. After him are Franz Benda, Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier, John Goodricke, Eva Ekeblad, Gaspar de Portolá, Tokugawa Ieharu, and Princess Ernestine of Saxe-Weimar.

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In Slovakia

Among people born in Slovakia, Maurice Benyovszky ranks 17 out of 418. Before him are Béla I of Hungary (1016), Rudolf von Laban (1879), Ivan Gašparovič (1941), Juraj Jánošík (1688), Tibor Sekelj (1912), and Pavel Jozef Šafárik (1795). After him are Vladimír Mečiar (1942), Ármin Vámbéry (1832), Jozef Gabčík (1912), Vojtech Tuka (1880), Ernst von Dohnányi (1877), and Milan Rastislav Štefánik (1880).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Slovakia

Among military personnels born in Slovakia, Maurice Benyovszky ranks 1. After him are Jozef Gabčík (1912), Pál Maléter (1917), Archduke Joseph Karl of Austria (1833), Paul Kray (1735), and János Pálffy (1664).

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