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Mikołaj Rej

1505 - 1569

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Mikołaj Rej or Mikołaj Rey of Nagłowice (4 February 1505 – between 8 September/5 October 1569) was a Polish poet and prose writer of the emerging Renaissance in Poland as it succeeded the Middle Ages, as well as a politician and musician. He was the first Polish author to write exclusively in the Polish language, and is considered (with Biernat of Lublin and Jan Kochanowski), to be one of the founders of Polish literary language and literature. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Mikołaj Rej is the 2,353rd most popular writer (up from 2,403rd in 2019), the 347th most popular biography from Ukraine and the 47th most popular Ukrainian Writer.

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Among writers, Mikołaj Rej ranks 2,353 out of 7,302. Before him are Andrei Voznesensky, John Fletcher, Joseph D. Pistone, Israel Joshua Singer, Keigo Higashino, and Marius Maximus. After him are Ulf Stark, Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Mary Baker Eddy, Kenneth Grahame, Corax of Syracuse, and Jan Arnošt Smoler.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1505, Mikołaj Rej ranks 7. Before him are Sokollu Mehmed Pasha, Mary of Hungary, Joachim II Hector, Elector of Brandenburg, Andrea Amati, Jane Boleyn, Viscountess Rochford, and Michel de l'Hôpital. After him are Juan de Valdés, Lambert Lombard, Christine of Saxony, Nikolaus Federmann, Christoph Amberger, and Vicente Juan Masip. Among people deceased in 1569, Mikołaj Rej ranks 9. Before him are John of Ávila, Gracia Mendes Nasi, Wolfgang, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken, Maria Temryukovna, Gerolama Orsini, and Aben Humeya. After him are Catherine Carey, António Ferreira, Philip II, Metropolitan of Moscow, Philibert, Margrave of Baden-Baden, and Myles Coverdale.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Mikołaj Rej ranks 347 out of 1,365. Before him are Pavel Rybalko (1894), Arkady Luxemburg (1939), Vasyl Sukhomlynsky (1918), Aharon Appelfeld (1932), Géza Kalocsay (1913), and Igor Volk (1937). After him are Leonid Popov (1945), Stanisław Maczek (1892), Anna Bilińska (1854), Shaul Tchernichovsky (1875), Fedor Emelianenko (1976), and Tekla Juniewicz (1906).

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Among WRITERS In Ukraine

Among writers born in Ukraine, Mikołaj Rej ranks 47. Before him are Tadeusz Borowski (1922), Zbigniew Herbert (1924), Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky (1864), Sholem Schwarzbard (1886), Vasyl Sukhomlynsky (1918), and Aharon Appelfeld (1932). After him are Shaul Tchernichovsky (1875), Israel Zolli (1881), Dmytro Dontsov (1883), Rose Ausländer (1901), Carolyne zu Sayn-Wittgenstein (1819), and Pavlo Tychyna (1891).

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