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Allan Kardec

1804 - 1869

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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 731,408 page views. His biography is available in 40 different languages on Wikipedia. Allan Kardec is the 10th most popular occultist, the 526th most popular biography from France (down from 400th 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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  • 730k

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  • 67.71

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 40

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.35

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.87

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among OCCULTISTS

Among occultists, Allan Kardec ranks 10 out of 41. Before him are Baba Vanga, Helena Blavatsky, Aleister Crowley, Count of St. Germain, Alessandro Cagliostro, and Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa. After him are Éliphas Lévi, Joachim of Fiore, Edgar Cayce, Anton LaVey, Gérard Encausse, and Edward Kelley.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1804, Allan Kardec ranks 9. Before him are Ludwig Feuerbach, Johann Strauss I, Napoléon Louis Bonaparte, Benjamin Disraeli, Wilhelm Eduard Weber, and Emil Lenz. After him are Matthias Jakob Schleiden, Mongkut, Mikhail Glinka, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Richard Owen, and Marie Taglioni. Among people deceased in 1869, Allan Kardec ranks 5. Before him are Franklin Pierce, Hector Berlioz, Alphonse de Lamartine, and Ghalib. After him are Jan Evangelista Purkyně, Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve, Johann Friedrich Overbeck, Hijikata Toshizō, Alexander Sergeyevich Menshikov, Thomas Graham, and Antoine-Henri Jomini.

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In France

Among people born in France, Allan Kardec ranks 526 out of 6,770. Before him are Marie Louise d’Orléans (1662), Childebert I (497), Roger I of Sicily (1031), Louis Philippe II, Duke of Orléans (1747), Auguste Escoffier (1847), and Victor Grignard (1871). After him are Richard Clayderman (1953), Charles Richet (1850), Hilary of Poitiers (315), Joseph Joffre (1852), Avitus (395), and Marcel Mauss (1872).

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Among OCCULTISTS In France

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), Stanislas de Guaita (1861), and Joséphin Péladan (1858).

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