1804 - 1869
Allan Kardec (French: [kaʁdɛk]) is the pen name of the French educator, translator, and author Hippolyte Léon Denizard Rivail ([ʁivaj]; 3 October 1804 – 31 March 1869). Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Allan Kardec has received more than 684,130 page views. His biography is available in 40 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 38 in 2019). Allan Kardec is the 10th most popular occultist (up from 12th in 2019), the 400th most popular biography from France (up from 510th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular French Occultist.
Allan Kardec is most famous for being the founder of Spiritism, a religion that teaches that spirits of the dead communicate with the living.
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Among occultists, Allan Kardec ranks 10 out of 37. Before him are John Dee, Helena Blavatsky, Count of St. Germain, Aleister Crowley, Alessandro Cagliostro, and Anton LaVey. After him are Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, Éliphas Lévi, Joachim of Fiore, Edgar Cayce, Gérard Encausse, and Guido von List.
1527 - 1608
HPI: 76.15
Rank: 4
1831 - 1891
HPI: 73.56
Rank: 5
1712 - 1784
HPI: 72.31
Rank: 6
1875 - 1947
HPI: 72.16
Rank: 7
1743 - 1795
HPI: 69.70
Rank: 8
1930 - 1997
HPI: 68.87
Rank: 9
1804 - 1869
HPI: 68.74
Rank: 10
1486 - 1535
HPI: 68.14
Rank: 11
1810 - 1875
HPI: 65.71
Rank: 12
1135 - 1202
HPI: 65.27
Rank: 13
1877 - 1945
HPI: 64.96
Rank: 14
1865 - 1916
HPI: 60.72
Rank: 15
1848 - 1919
HPI: 60.04
Rank: 16
Among people born in 1804, Allan Kardec ranks 7. Before him are Ludwig Feuerbach, George Sand, Johann Strauss I, Benjamin Disraeli, Emil Lenz, and Wilhelm Eduard Weber. After him are Mikhail Glinka, Napoléon Louis Bonaparte, Franklin Pierce, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Richard Owen, and Matthias Jakob Schleiden. Among people deceased in 1869, Allan Kardec ranks 2. Before him is Hector Berlioz. After him are Franklin Pierce, Alphonse de Lamartine, Jan Evangelista Purkyně, Ghalib, Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve, Johann Friedrich Overbeck, Antoine-Henri Jomini, Alexander Sergeyevich Menshikov, Thomas Graham, and Carl Loewe.
1804 - 1872
HPI: 77.28
Rank: 1
1804 - 1876
HPI: 76.79
Rank: 2
1804 - 1849
HPI: 76.60
Rank: 3
1804 - 1881
HPI: 69.83
Rank: 4
1804 - 1865
HPI: 69.76
Rank: 5
1804 - 1891
HPI: 69.24
Rank: 6
1804 - 1869
HPI: 68.74
Rank: 7
1804 - 1857
HPI: 68.52
Rank: 8
1804 - 1831
HPI: 68.26
Rank: 9
1804 - 1869
HPI: 68.08
Rank: 10
1804 - 1864
HPI: 66.72
Rank: 11
1804 - 1892
HPI: 66.14
Rank: 12
1804 - 1881
HPI: 65.79
Rank: 13
1803 - 1869
HPI: 78.80
Rank: 1
1804 - 1869
HPI: 68.74
Rank: 2
1804 - 1869
HPI: 68.08
Rank: 3
1790 - 1869
HPI: 67.69
Rank: 4
1787 - 1869
HPI: 66.15
Rank: 5
1797 - 1869
HPI: 65.21
Rank: 6
1804 - 1869
HPI: 63.87
Rank: 7
1789 - 1869
HPI: 60.50
Rank: 8
1779 - 1869
HPI: 58.88
Rank: 9
1787 - 1869
HPI: 58.84
Rank: 10
1805 - 1869
HPI: 58.77
Rank: 11
1796 - 1869
HPI: 58.77
Rank: 12
Among people born in France, Allan Kardec ranks 400 out of 6,011. Before him are Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot (1725), Pierre Bayle (1647), Eugène François Vidocq (1775), Paul Éluard (1895), Gaspard Monge (1746), and Anouk Aimée (1932). After him are Raymond IV, Count of Toulouse (1045), Jacques Prévert (1900), Jean-Louis Trintignant (1930), Margaret of Anjou (1430), Jean Genet (1910), and Ambroise Paré (1510).
1725 - 1804
HPI: 68.84
Rank: 394
1647 - 1706
HPI: 68.82
Rank: 395
1775 - 1857
HPI: 68.82
Rank: 396
1895 - 1952
HPI: 68.79
Rank: 397
1746 - 1818
HPI: 68.77
Rank: 398
1932 - Present
HPI: 68.76
Rank: 399
1804 - 1869
HPI: 68.74
Rank: 400
1045 - 1105
HPI: 68.74
Rank: 401
1900 - 1977
HPI: 68.73
Rank: 402
1930 - 2022
HPI: 68.73
Rank: 403
1430 - 1482
HPI: 68.71
Rank: 404
1910 - 1986
HPI: 68.70
Rank: 405
1510 - 1590
HPI: 68.70
Rank: 406
Among occultists born in France, Allan Kardec ranks 2. Before him are Nostradamus (1503). After him are Éliphas Lévi (1810), Louis Claude de Saint-Martin (1743), Joséphin Péladan (1858), and Stanislas de Guaita (1861).
1503 - 1566
HPI: 83.96
Rank: 1
1804 - 1869
HPI: 68.74
Rank: 2
1810 - 1875
HPI: 65.71
Rank: 3
1743 - 1803
HPI: 57.74
Rank: 4
1858 - 1918
HPI: 55.80
Rank: 5
1861 - 1897
HPI: 55.20
Rank: 6