RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Aloys Sprenger

1813 - 1893

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Aloys Sprenger (born 3 September 1813, in Nassereith, Tyrol; died 19 December 1893 in Heidelberg) was an Austrian Orientalist. Sprenger studied medicine, natural sciences as well as oriental languages at the University of Vienna. In 1836 he moved to London, where he worked with the Earl of Munster on the latter's Geschichte der Kriegswissenschaften bei den mohammedanischen Völkern, ‘History of Military Science among the Muslim Peoples’, and thence in 1843 to Calcutta, where he became principal of Delhi College. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Aloys Sprenger has received more than 30,376 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Aloys Sprenger is the 2,346th most popular religious figure, the 762nd most popular biography from Austria and the 20th most popular Austrian Religious Figure.

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Aloys Sprenger ranks 2,346 out of 3,187Before him are Aleksander Kakowski, Nicolás de Jesús López Rodríguez, Sigitas Tamkevičius, Pierbattista Pizzaballa, Gabriel Zubeir Wako, and Mellitus. After him are Cristóbal López Romero, Pope Kedron of Alexandria, Norberto Rivera Carrera, Aëtius of Antioch, Stéphanos II Ghattas, and Violet Gibson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1813, Aloys Sprenger ranks 55Before him are Frederick Scott Archer, Errico Petrella, John C. Frémont, Prince August of Württemberg, Stephen A. Douglas, and Otto Ludwig. After him are Giovanni Luppis, Edmond de Sélys Longchamps, Otto Jahn, Louise-Victorine Ackermann, Franz Delitzsch, and Isidore Pils. Among people deceased in 1893, Aloys Sprenger ranks 60Before him are Joseph Hellmesberger Sr., Concepción Arenal, Ibrahim Edhem Pasha, Adolphe Yvon, Grigory Gagarin, and Grigor Parlichev. After him are Michał Elwiro Andriolli, Alexander Kazbegi, Duleep Singh, Samuel Baker, Lucy Stone, and Arnaud-Michel d'Abbadie.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Aloys Sprenger ranks 762 out of 1,424Before him are Wilhelm Hahnemann (1914), Josef Abel (1764), Otto Wahle (1879), Lajos Bíró (1880), Ernst Grünfeld (1893), and Lilia Skala (1896). After him are Michael Denis (1729), Heinrich Lammasch (1853), Dénes Berinkey (1871), Ignaz von Seyfried (1776), Maria Lassnig (1919), and Trickster (null).

Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In Austria

Among religious figures born in Austria, Aloys Sprenger ranks 20Before him are Theodor Innitzer (1875), Hans Hermann Groër (1919), Saint Sturm (704), Alfons Maria Stickler (1910), Carlo Gaetano Gaisruck (1769), and Wlodimir Ledóchowski (1866). After him are Ursula Ledóchowska (1865), Joseph Othmar Rauscher (1797), and Anton Josef Gruscha (1820).