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Václav Hanka

1791 - 1861

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Václav Hanka (also written as Wenceslaus Hanka) (10 June 1791 – 12 January 1861) was a Czech philologist. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Václav Hanka is the 3,651st most popular writer (down from 3,541st in 2019), the 467th most popular biography from Czechia (down from 450th in 2019) and the 45th most popular Czech Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Václav Hanka ranks 3,651 out of 7,302Before him are Charles Lock Eastlake, Aurora Mardiganian, Claude Bourgelat, Olga Orozco, Howard Pyle, and Shibli Nomani. After him are William Robertson Smith, Movses Kaghankatvatsi, Nonius Marcellus, Hryhorii Kvitka-Osnovianenko, Marie-Joseph Chénier, and Carmen Laforet.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1791, Václav Hanka ranks 34Before him are Anne Lister, Friedrich von Gärtner, Jan Svatopluk Presl, Jan Václav Voříšek, Theodor Körner, and Louis Visconti. After him are Giuseppe Gioachino Belli, Odilon Barrot, Josef Munzinger, Jean Cruveilhier, Johan Ludvig Heiberg, and Adolf Ivar Arwidsson. Among people deceased in 1861, Václav Hanka ranks 46Before him are Louis Niedermeyer, Heinrich Rudolf Schinz, Frédéric de Lafresnaye, Albert Niemann, Johann Andreas Wagner, and Francisco del Rosario Sánchez. After him are Antun Mihanović, Peter Georg Bang, Pierre Bosquet, Infante João, Duke of Beja, Louis Vicat, and Stephen A. Douglas.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Václav Hanka ranks 467 out of 1,200Before him are Helena Suková (1965), Karel Lamač (1897), Milena Hübschmannová (1933), Vladimír Špidla (1951), Ludvík Daněk (1937), and Karel Roden (1962). After him are Eugen Sänger (1905), Vilém Blodek (1834), Tomáš Skuhravý (1965), Karel Kryl (1944), Moritz von Auffenberg (1852), and Ralph Benatzky (1884).

Among WRITERS In Czechia

Among writers born in Czechia, Václav Hanka ranks 45Before him are Fritz Mauthner (1849), Viktor Dyk (1877), Karel Píč (1920), Karel Havlíček Borovský (1821), Alois Musil (1868), and Vladislav Vančura (1891). After him are Karel Kryl (1944), Arnošt Lustig (1926), Jiří Dienstbier (1937), Jiří Wolker (1900), Jaroslav Vrchlický (1853), and Daniela Hodrová (1946).