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Rigas Feraios

1757 - 1798

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Rigas Feraios (Greek: Ρήγας Φεραίος pronounced [ˈriɣas fɛˈrɛɔs], sometimes Rhegas Pheraeos; Aromanian: Riga Fereu) or Velestinlis (Βελεστινλής pronounced [vɛlɛstinˈlis], also transliterated Velestinles; 1757 – 24 June 1798), born as Antonios Rigas Velestinlis (Greek: Αντώνιος Ρήγας Βελεστινλής), was a Greek writer, political thinker and revolutionary, active in the Modern Greek Enlightenment. A victim of the Balkan uprising against the Ottoman Empire and a pioneer of the Greek War of Independence, Rigas Feraios is today remembered as a national hero in Greece. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Rigas Feraios is the 1,196th most popular writer (down from 1,133rd in 2019), the 281st most popular biography from Greece (down from 265th in 2019) and the 33rd most popular Greek Writer.

Rigas Feraios was a Greek poet who wrote during the time of the Ottoman Empire. He was most famous for his poems that criticized the Ottoman Empire and called for an uprising to overthrow it.

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Among writers, Rigas Feraios ranks 1,196 out of 7,302. Before him are Michael Connelly, Ljudevit Gaj, Marshall Rosenberg, Ugo Foscolo, Hans Magnus Enzensberger, and Sarah, Duchess of York. After him are Asconius Pedianus, Adolfo Bioy Casares, Rosamunde Pilcher, Kazi Nazrul Islam, Gabrielle-Suzanne de Villeneuve, and Lü Dongbin.

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Among people born in 1757, Rigas Feraios ranks 12. Before him are Pierre Augereau, Friedrich Karl Ludwig, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck, Robert Smith, Jacques Hébert, Countess Augusta Reuss of Ebersdorf, and Karl August, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach. After him are Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire, George Vancouver, Ignaz Pleyel, Johann Matthäus Bechstein, Karl Leonhard Reinhold, and Pierre Jean Georges Cabanis. Among people deceased in 1798, Rigas Feraios ranks 8. Before him are Luigi Galvani, Stanisław August Poniatowski, Maria Christina, Duchess of Teschen, James Wilson, Tarrare, and George Read. After him are George Vancouver, Princess Friederike of Brandenburg-Schwedt, Heraclius II of Georgia, Christian Gottlob Neefe, Edward Waring, and Wilhelm Heinrich Wackenroder.

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In Greece

Among people born in Greece, Rigas Feraios ranks 281 out of 1,024. Before him are Anaxandridas II (-565), Arsinoe I (-305), Princess Theodora of Greece and Denmark (1906), Callias II (-515), Georgios Roubanis (1929), and Ugo Foscolo (1778). After him are Isidore of Kiev (1385), Perdiccas I of Macedon (-700), Pelopidas (-450), Phocion (-402), Lucas Papademos (1947), and Paeonius (-500).

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Among WRITERS In Greece

Among writers born in Greece, Rigas Feraios ranks 33. Before him are Periander (-700), Philostratus (170), Agathon (-448), Lafcadio Hearn (1850), Jean Moréas (1856), and Ugo Foscolo (1778). After him are Semonides of Amorgos (-650), Hierocles of Alexandria (410), Phrynichus (-535), Cratinus (-500), Diagoras of Melos (-450), and Laonikos Chalkokondyles (1423).

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