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Pjetër Bogdani

1630 - 1689

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Pjetër Bogdani (Italian: Pietro Bogdano; 1627 – 6 December 1689) was the most original writer of Old Albanian literature. He was author of the Cuneus Prophetarum (The Band of the Prophets), 1685, the first prose work of substance written originally in (Gheg) Albanian (i.e. not a translation). He organized a resistance against the Ottomans and a pro-Austrian movement in Kosovo in 1689 that included Muslim and Christian Albanians. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Pjetër Bogdani is the 1,888th most popular writer (up from 2,249th in 2019), the 6th most popular biography from Kosovo (up from 8th in 2019) and the most popular Writer.

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Among writers, Pjetër Bogdani ranks 1,888 out of 7,302. Before him are Chūya Nakahara, Wilhelm Heinrich Wackenroder, Gloria E. Anzaldúa, Nicolás Guillén, Luigi Illica, and Ğabdulla Tuqay. After him are Émile Augier, João de Barros, Rómulo Gallegos, Margarete Buber-Neumann, Hincmar, and Shirley Jackson.

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Among people born in 1630, Pjetër Bogdani ranks 12. Before him are Ranuccio II Farnese, Duke of Parma, Olaus Rudbeck, Madame de Brinvilliers, Cornelis Norbertus Gijsbrechts, Ludolf Bakhuizen, and Josefa de Óbidos. After him are Louis VI, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt, Sigismund Francis, Archduke of Austria, Maria van Oosterwijck, Roche Braziliano, Pierre Daniel Huet, and Guru Har Rai. Among people deceased in 1689, Pjetër Bogdani ranks 10. Before him are Sambhaji, Khushal Khattak, Aşub Sultan, Aphra Behn, Archduchess Maria Anna Josepha of Austria, and Ernest Günther, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg. After him are Kazimierz Łyszczyński, Jean-Baptiste Tavernier, Thomas Sydenham, Dorothea of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, Alexander Farnese, Prince of Parma, and Julius Francis, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg.

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In Kosovo

Among people born in Kosovo, Pjetër Bogdani ranks 6 out of 7. Before him are Miloš Obilić (1350), Ibrahim Rugova (1944), Đurađ Branković (1377), Elyesa Bazna (1904), and Behgjet Pacolli (1951). After him are Adem Demaçi (1936), Nexhmije Pagarusha (1933), David Albahari (1948), Albin Kurti (1975), Isa Mustafa (1951), and Dragan Tomić (1935).

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Among WRITERS In Kosovo

Among writers born in Kosovo, Pjetër Bogdani ranks 1. After him are David Albahari (1948), and Jeton Kelmendi (1978).

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