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Mór Jókai

1825 - 1904

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Móricz Jókay of Ásva [ˈmoːr ˈjoːkɒi] (18 February 1825 – 5 May 1904), known as Mór Jókai, was a Hungarian novelist, dramatist and revolutionary. Outside of Hungary, he was also known as Maurice Jókai or Maurus Jókai or Mauritius Jókai. He was a leader of the outbreak of the Hungarian Revolution of 1848 in Pest. His romantic novels became widely popular among the elite of Victorian England, where he was often compared to Charles Dickens by the press. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Mór Jókai is the 1,757th most popular writer (down from 1,583rd in 2019), the 201st most popular biography from Hungary (down from 176th in 2019) and the 22nd most popular Hungarian Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Mór Jókai ranks 1,757 out of 7,302. Before him are Eustathius of Thessalonica, Nikephoros Bryennios the Younger, Sri Chinmoy, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Mário de Andrade, and Bob Woodward. After him are Adalberon, Antonio Skármeta, Nora Ephron, Minna Canth, Silvina Ocampo, and Baba Tahir.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1825, Mór Jókai ranks 24. Before him are Nubar Pasha, Sher Ali Khan, Henri Giffard, Dadabhai Naoroji, Grand Duchess Alexandra Nikolaevna of Russia, and George Phillips Bond. After him are Princess Hildegard of Bavaria, Conrad Ferdinand Meyer, Práxedes Mateo Sagasta, R. M. Ballantyne, Frances Harper, and Edward Frankland. Among people deceased in 1904, Mór Jókai ranks 36. Before him are Nikolay Bobrikov, María de las Mercedes, Princess of Asturias, Isabella Bird, Kartini, Antonio Labriola, and Isabelle Eberhardt. After him are Clemens Winkler, Herbert von Bismarck, Karl Alfred von Zittel, Wilhelm Marr, Franz von Lenbach, and Jovan Jovanović Zmaj.

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In Hungary

Among people born in Hungary, Mór Jókai ranks 201 out of 1,077. Before him are Adolph Zukor (1873), Miklós Zrínyi (1620), André Kertész (1894), Miklós Németh (1948), Ferenc Erkel (1810), and Archduke Stephen, Palatine of Hungary (1817). After him are Zoltán Horváth (1937), Mihály Munkácsy (1844), Viktor Barna (1911), Ludwig von Benedek (1804), Ibolya Csák (1915), and Ferenc Fricsay (1914).

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Among WRITERS In Hungary

Among writers born in Hungary, Mór Jókai ranks 22. Before him are Rosika Schwimmer (1877), Magda Szabó (1917), Hannah Szenes (1921), Attila József (1905), György Konrád (1933), and Miklós Zrínyi (1620). After him are Viktor Barna (1911), László Krasznahorkai (1954), Péter Esterházy (1950), George Tabori (1914), Anton Bernolák (1762), and Janus Pannonius (1434).

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