WRITER

Pavel Jozef Šafárik

1795 - 1861

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Pavel Jozef Šafárik (Slovak: Pavol Jozef Šafárik; 13 May 1795 – 26 June 1861) was a Slovak philologist, poet, literary historian, historian and ethnographer in the Kingdom of Hungary. He was one of the first scientific Slavists. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Pavel Jozef Šafárik is the 704th most popular writer (down from 699th in 2019), the 16th most popular biography from Slovakia (down from 15th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Slovak Writer.

Pavel Jozef Šafárik is most famous for being the author of the first Czech grammar book and his translations of Shakespeare.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Pavel Jozef Šafárik ranks 704 out of 7,302. Before him are Tatian, Thomas Friedman, Eugène Sue, Dietrich Eckart, Matthew Lewis, and Stieg Larsson. After him are Lorenzo Da Ponte, Georg Büchner, Multatuli, Cassiodorus, Patrick White, and Abdulrazak Gurnah.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1795, Pavel Jozef Šafárik ranks 7. Before him are James K. Polk, Frederick William IV of Prussia, Leopold von Ranke, John Keats, Anna Pavlovna of Russia, and Thomas Carlyle. After him are Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg, Ernst Heinrich Weber, Rowland Hill, Gabriel Lamé, Antonio José de Sucre, and Dingane kaSenzangakhona. Among people deceased in 1861, Pavel Jozef Šafárik ranks 11. Before him are Taras Shevchenko, Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour, Xianfeng Emperor, Friedrich Carl von Savigny, Pedro V of Portugal, and Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld. After him are Lola Montez, Ranavalona I, Eugène Scribe, Utagawa Kuniyoshi, Adam Jerzy Czartoryski, and Elisha Otis.

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In Slovakia

Among people born in Slovakia, Pavel Jozef Šafárik ranks 16 out of 418. Before him are Robert Fico (1964), Béla I of Hungary (1016), Rudolf von Laban (1879), Ivan Gašparovič (1941), Juraj Jánošík (1688), and Tibor Sekelj (1912). After him are Maurice Benyovszky (1746), Vladimír Mečiar (1942), Ármin Vámbéry (1832), Jozef Gabčík (1912), Vojtech Tuka (1880), and Ernst von Dohnányi (1877).

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Among WRITERS In Slovakia

Among writers born in Slovakia, Pavel Jozef Šafárik ranks 2. Before him are Tibor Sekelj (1912). After him are Ľudovít Štúr (1815), Bálint Balassi (1554), Vladimír Clementis (1902), Imre Madách (1823), Pavol Országh Hviezdoslav (1849), Alexander Dukhnovych (1803), Kálmán Mikszáth (1847), Jozef Miloslav Hurban (1817), Janko Matúška (1821), and Samo Chalupka (1812).

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