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Piotr Skarga

1536 - 1612

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Piotr Skarga (less often Piotr Powęski, incorrectly: Pawęski; 2 February 1536 – 27 September 1612) was a Polish Jesuit, preacher, hagiographer, polemicist, and leading figure of the Counter-Reformation in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. Due to his oratorical gifts, he has been called "the Polish Bossuet". Skarga is remembered by Poles as a vigorous early advocate of reforms to the Polish–Lithuanian polity, and as a critic of the Commonwealth's governing classes, as well as of its religious tolerance policies. He advocated strengthening the monarch's power at the expense of parliament (the Sejm) and of the nobility (the szlachta). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Piotr Skarga is the 2,080th most popular writer (up from 2,193rd in 2019), the 459th most popular biography from Poland (up from 499th in 2019) and the 39th most popular Polish Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Piotr Skarga ranks 2,080 out of 7,302. Before him are Anastasius Sinaita, Alexander Belyaev, Oscar Milosz, Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić, Isaac the Blind, and Ibn al-Farid. After him are Elsa Beskow, Wolfgang Borchert, Stanisław Przybyszewski, Pierre Plantard, Salvador de Madariaga, and François Hotman.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1536, Piotr Skarga ranks 8. Before him are Toyotomi Hideyoshi, Jeremias II of Constantinople, Yi I, Ashikaga Yoshiteru, Johann VI, Count of Nassau-Dillenburg, and Lord Guildford Dudley. After him are Joachim Ernest, Prince of Anhalt, Lucia Anguissola, Ignazio Danti, Leonardo Donato, Balthasar Russow, and Juan Fernández. Among people deceased in 1612, Piotr Skarga ranks 17. Before him are Hans Leo Hassler, Francesco IV Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua, John Smyth, Jodocus Hondius, Giovanni Battista Guarini, and Ernest of Bavaria. After him are False Dmitry III, Leonardo Donato, Giovanni de' Bardi, Nicholas Rémy, Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury, and Arima Harunobu.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Piotr Skarga ranks 459 out of 1,694. Before him are Maria Konopnicka (1842), Paweł Pawlikowski (1957), Ewa Kopacz (1956), Gottfried Achenwall (1719), Władysław III Spindleshanks (1165), and Alexandre Tansman (1897). After him are Stanisław Przybyszewski (1868), Gunther von Hagens (1945), Adalbert Krueger (1832), Prince Adolf zu Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen (1797), Prince Franz Wilhelm of Prussia (1943), and Bezprym (987).

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Among WRITERS In Poland

Among writers born in Poland, Piotr Skarga ranks 39. Before him are Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz (1885), Stanisław Wyspiański (1869), Izabela Czartoryska (1746), I. L. Peretz (1852), Uri Orlev (1931), and Maria Konopnicka (1842). After him are Stanisław Przybyszewski (1868), Marcel Reich-Ranicki (1920), Julian Tuwim (1894), Lidia Zamenhof (1904), Józef Ignacy Kraszewski (1812), and Georg Heym (1887).

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