RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Alexander Schmorell

1917 - 1943

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Alexander Schmorell (16 September [O.S. 3 September] 1917 – 13 July 1943), also sometimes referred to as Saint Alexander of Munich, was a Russian-German student at Munich University who, with five others, formed a resistance group (part of the Widerstand) known as White Rose (German: Weiße Rose) which was active against the Nazi German regime from June 1942 to February 1943. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alexander Schmorell has received more than 294,054 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Alexander Schmorell is the 1,092nd most popular religious figure (up from 1,232nd in 2019), the 533rd most popular biography from Russia (up from 654th in 2019) and the 13th most popular Russian Religious Figure.

Memorability Metrics

  • 290k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 58.53

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.83

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.06

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Alexander Schmorell ranks 1,092 out of 3,187. Before him are George Alencherry, Pope Dioscorus I of Alexandria, Jacques de Vitry, Nicholas of Tolentino, Abu Darda, and Aqil ibn Abi Talib. After him are Mark of Ephesus, Jeanne Guyon, John IV of Constantinople, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Isaac in Islam, and Pope Pontian.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1917, Alexander Schmorell ranks 77. Before him are Obdulio Varela, Magda Szabó, Robert Bloch, Ettore Sottsass, Henry Ford II, and Maurice Trintignant. After him are Stéphane Hessel, Alparslan Türkeş, Pedro Infante, Carson McCullers, Roque Máspoli, and Cyrus Vance. Among people deceased in 1943, Alexander Schmorell ranks 48. Before him are Jane Avril, Vito Cascio Ferro, Abdelaziz of Morocco, Ugo Cavallero, Conrad Veidt, and Viktor Pavičić. After him are Lepa Radić, Aurel Stein, Franz Jägerstätter, Marina Raskova, Kurt Huber, and Kurt von Hammerstein-Equord.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Alexander Schmorell ranks 533 out of 3,761. Before him are Sergei Bulgakov (1871), Simeon Bekbulatovich (1600), Grand Duke Alexander Alexandrovich of Russia (1869), Dmitry Merezhkovsky (1866), Sergey Biryuzov (1904), and Werner Ostendorff (1903). After him are Andrei Karlov (1954), Alexander Butlerov (1828), Konstantin Makovsky (1839), Mikhail Mil (1909), Vyacheslav Tikhonov (1928), and Igor Netto (1930).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In Russia

Among religious figures born in Russia, Alexander Schmorell ranks 13. Before him are Ilia II of Georgia (1933), Sergius of Radonezh (1314), Avvakum (1620), Basil Fool for Christ (1468), Nadezhda von Meck (1831), and Patriarch Tikhon of Moscow (1865). After him are Tode Mongke (1282), Nicholas of Japan (1836), Xenia of Saint Petersburg (1719), Maria Alexandrovna Ulyanova (1835), Aleksandr Akimov (1953), and Anna Vyrubova (1884).

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