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RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Alexander Schmorell

1917 - 1943

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Alexander Schmorell (16 September [O.S. 3 September] 1917 – 13 July 1943) 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 269,550 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Alexander Schmorell is the 1,242nd most popular religious figure (down from 1,198th in 2019), the 655th most popular biography from Russia (down from 626th in 2019) and the 17th most popular Russian Religious Figure.

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  • 22

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Alexander Schmorell ranks 1,242 out of 2,238Before him are Clement Mary Hofbauer, Gregory V of Constantinople, Nadezhda von Meck, Simon Stock, Abu Sa'id Abu'l-Khayr, and Wim Hof. After him are Renato Martino, Benedict Joseph Labre, Hyacinth of Poland, Frederick of Utrecht, Oda Nobutada, and Bérenger Saunière.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1917, Alexander Schmorell ranks 104Before him are Augusto Roa Bastos, Yukio Tsuda, Kamal Jumblatt, David Easton, Andrew Wyeth, and Brad Dexter. After him are Kunitaka Sueoka, Jânio Quadros, Roque Máspoli, Henri Salvador, Atle Selberg, and Phaedon Gizikis. Among people deceased in 1943, Alexander Schmorell ranks 64Before him are Wilhelm Kube, Johann Trollmann, Prince Georg of Bavaria, R. G. Collingwood, Hanns Heinz Ewers, and John Harvey Kellogg. After him are Ludwig von Reuter, Christoph Probst, Fethi Okyar, Yekaterina Budanova, Charlotte Salomon, and Hans Woellke.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Alexander Schmorell ranks 655 out of 3,262Before him are Grand Duchess Elizabeth Mikhailovna of Russia (1826), Andor Lilienthal (1911), Grand Duke Dmitry Konstantinovich of Russia (1860), Nikolay Pavlovich Ignatyev (1832), Nikolai Voznesensky (1903), and Nadezhda von Meck (1831). After him are Konstantin Paustovsky (1892), Nikolay Krylov (1903), Lilya Brik (1891), Pavel Belyayev (1925), Viktor Chernov (1873), and Yaroslav of Tver (1230).

Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In Russia

Among religious figures born in Russia, Alexander Schmorell ranks 17Before him are Tode Mongke (1282), Nicholas of Japan (1836), Maria Alexandrovna Ulyanova (1835), Xenia of Saint Petersburg (1719), Anna Vyrubova (1884), and Nadezhda von Meck (1831). After him are Aleksandr Akimov (1953), Abdurreshid Ibrahim (1857), Patriarch Pimen I of Moscow (1910), Patriarch Alexy I of Moscow (1877), Matrona Nikonova (1881), and Hyacinth (1777).