New games! PlayTrivia andBirthle.

OCCULTIST

Allan Kardec

1804 - 1869

Photo of Allan Kardec

Icon of person Allan Kardec

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.

Memorability Metrics

  • 680k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 68.74

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 40

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.84

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.69

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Allan Kardecs by language


Among OCCULTISTS

Among occultists, Allan Kardec ranks 10 out of 37Before 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.

Most Popular Occultists in Wikipedia

Go to all Rankings

Contemporaries

Among people born in 1804, Allan Kardec ranks 7Before 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 2Before 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.

Others Born in 1804

Go to all Rankings

Others Deceased in 1869

Go to all Rankings

In France

Among people born in France, Allan Kardec ranks 400 out of 6,011Before 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).

Among OCCULTISTS In France

Among occultists born in France, Allan Kardec ranks 2Before him are Nostradamus (1503). After him are Éliphas Lévi (1810), Louis Claude de Saint-Martin (1743), Joséphin Péladan (1858), and Stanislas de Guaita (1861).