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Saint Naum

830 - 910

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Naum (Bulgarian and Macedonian: Свети Наум, romanized: Sveti Naum), also known as Naum of Ohrid or Naum of Preslav (c. 830 – December 23, 910), was a medieval Bulgarian writer and missionary among the Slavs, considered one of the Seven Apostles of the First Bulgarian Empire. He was among the disciples of Cyril and Methodius and is associated with the creation of the Glagolitic and Cyrillic script. Naum was among the founders of the Pliska Literary School. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Saint Naum is the 618th most popular writer (down from 542nd in 2019), the 20th most popular biography from Bulgaria (down from 19th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Bulgarian Writer.

Saint Naum is most famous for his work as a hermit and poet in the 10th century.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Saint Naum ranks 618 out of 7,302. Before him are Sei Shōnagon, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Amin Maalouf, Aulus Gellius, Harold Pinter, and Maria Leopoldina of Austria. After him are Louise de La Vallière, Raymond Queneau, Han Kang, Theodore Dreiser, Joan Fuster, and Edgar Rice Burroughs.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 830, Saint Naum ranks 5. Before him are Rurik, Pope Marinus I, Carloman of Bavaria, and Junayd of Baghdad. After him are Baldwin I, Margrave of Flanders, Kocel, Emperor Kōkō, Ermentrude of Orléans, Guthrum, Rimbert, and Mutimir of Serbia. Among people deceased in 910, Saint Naum ranks 3. Before him are Ingólfr Arnarson, and Junayd of Baghdad. After him are Alfonso III of Asturias, Yasovarman I, Richilde of Provence, Ishaq ibn Hunayn, and Gebhard, Duke of Lorraine.

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In Bulgaria

Among people born in Bulgaria, Saint Naum ranks 20 out of 415. Before him are Diogenes of Apollonia (-460), Julia Kristeva (1941), Tiberius II Constantine (520), Boris I of Bulgaria (828), Talaat Pasha (1874), and Kubrat (605). After him are Kaloyan of Bulgaria (1168), Hristo Stoichkov (1966), Tzvetan Todorov (1939), Ratko Janev (1939), Ivan Asen II of Bulgaria (1195), and Sylvie Vartan (1944).

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Among WRITERS In Bulgaria

Among writers born in Bulgaria, Saint Naum ranks 3. Before him are Aesop (-620), and Elias Canetti (1905). After him are Hristo Botev (1848), Ivan Vazov (1850), Georgi Markov (1929), Chernorizets Hrabar (890), Sabahattin Ali (1907), Gregory Tsamblak (1365), Constantine of Preslav (900), Georgi Sava Rakovski (1821), and Elin Pelin (1877).

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