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Simonas Daukantas

1793 - 1864

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Simonas Daukantas (Polish: Szymon Dowkont; 28 October 1793 – 6 December 1864) was a Lithuanian/Samogitian historian, writer, and ethnographer. One of the pioneers of the Lithuanian National Revival, he is credited as the author of the first book on the history of Lithuania written in the Lithuanian language. Only a few of his works were published during his lifetime and he died in obscurity. However, his works were rediscovered during the later stages of the National Revival. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Simonas Daukantas is the 3,538th most popular writer (up from 3,979th in 2019), the 762nd most popular biography from Poland (up from 830th in 2019) and the 84th most popular Polish Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Simonas Daukantas ranks 3,538 out of 7,302. Before him are Antero de Quental, William Ernest Henley, Glen Cook, Song Yu, Glückel of Hameln, and John Osborne. After him are Fernando del Paso, Torben Ulrich, Pietro Carrera, Oskar Maria Graf, Bakhtiyar Vahabzadeh, and Herman Grimm.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1793, Simonas Daukantas ranks 38. Before him are Marie Antoinette Murat, Casimir Delavigne, Pavel Pestel, Martin Rathke, Demetrios Ypsilantis, and Joseph Paul Gaimard. After him are Charles Lock Eastlake, Philip Barker-Webb, Felix de Muelenaere, Diego Portales, Robert Edmond Grant, and Stephen F. Austin. Among people deceased in 1864, Simonas Daukantas ranks 49. Before him are Imre Madách, Sakuma Shōzan, Simon von Stampfer, Franz Wilhelm Junghuhn, Luke Howard, and Pedro Santana. After him are Romuald Traugutt, Duchess Elisabeth Alexandrine of Württemberg, Prince Frederick Augustus of Anhalt-Dessau, El Hadj Umar Tall, Anna Harrison, and Hermann, Prince of Wied.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Simonas Daukantas ranks 762 out of 1,694. Before him are Bartholomaeus Pitiscus (1561), Carl Schuricht (1880), Frederick Ferdinand, Duke of Anhalt-Köthen (1769), Anna Langfus (1920), Juliusz Kossak (1824), and Elżbieta Krzesińska (1934). After him are Katja Ebstein (1945), Bernhard Lichtenberg (1875), Johann Christian Günther (1695), Wojciech Has (1925), Stanisław Szukalski (1893), and Gisela Hahn (1943).

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Among WRITERS In Poland

Among writers born in Poland, Simonas Daukantas ranks 84. Before him are Nathan Alterman (1910), Ewald Christian von Kleist (1715), Hermann Rauschning (1887), Kurd Lasswitz (1848), Jędrzej Śniadecki (1768), and Anna Langfus (1920). After him are Johann Christian Günther (1695), Zofia Kossak-Szczucka (1889), Marcin Kromer (1512), Joanna Chmielewska (1932), Gustaw Herling-Grudziński (1919), and Mascha Kaléko (1907).

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