RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Anna Göldi

1734 - 1782

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Anna Göldi (also Göldin or Goeldin, 24 October 1734 – 13 June 1782) was an 18th-century Swiss housemaid who was one of the last persons to be executed for witchcraft in Europe. Göldi, who was executed by decapitation in Glarus, has been called the "last witch" in Switzerland. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Anna Göldi has received more than 203,612 page views. Her biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Anna Göldi is the 774th most popular religious figure (up from 903rd in 2019), the 96th most popular biography from Switzerland (up from 110th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Swiss Religious Figure.

Anna Göldi was a Swiss peasant woman who became famous for being the first person to be executed in Switzerland for murder. She was convicted of killing her employer's son in 1782.

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  • 67.70

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.49

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.91

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Anna Göldi ranks 774 out of 3,187. Before her are John Henry Newman, Romuald, Zephaniah, Onesimus, Brother Roger, and Giuseppe Caspar Mezzofanti. After her are Gerard of Csanád, Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo, Peter of Saint Joseph de Betancur, Giovanni Battista Re, Nectarios of Aegina, and Hemma of Gurk.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1734, Anna Göldi ranks 7. Before her are Franz Mesmer, Maria I of Portugal, Taksin, François-Joseph Gossec, Sophie of France, and Cardinal de Rohan. After her are Wolfgang von Kempelen, Grigory Orlov, Charles Alexandre de Calonne, Jean-Marie Roland de la Platière, Joseph Wright of Derby, and Shahrokh Shah. Among people deceased in 1782, Anna Göldi ranks 11. Before her are Taksin, Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo, 1st Marquis of Pombal, Pietro Metastasio, Jacques de Vaucanson, Sophie of France, and Louisa Ulrika of Prussia. After her are Ange-Jacques Gabriel, Andreas Sigismund Marggraf, Anna Dorothea Therbusch, Princess Friederike of Hesse-Darmstadt, Princess Maria Carolina of Savoy, and Prince George William of Hesse-Darmstadt.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Anna Göldi ranks 96 out of 1,015. Before her are Jean Tinguely (1925), Gianni Infantino (1970), Johann Kaspar Lavater (1741), François Vatel (1631), Louis Agassiz (1807), and Brother Roger (1915). After her are Albrecht von Haller (1708), Rudolf II, Duke of Austria (1270), Louis, Duke of Savoy (1413), Nicholas of Flüe (1417), Germain Henri Hess (1802), and Louis Chevrolet (1878).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In Switzerland

Among religious figures born in Switzerland, Anna Göldi ranks 4. Before her are Huldrych Zwingli (1484), Hans Küng (1928), and Brother Roger (1915). After her are Nicholas of Flüe (1417), Johann Geiler von Kaysersberg (1445), Heinrich Bullinger (1504), Jacob Sprenger (1435), Jakob Ammann (1644), Ulrich of Augsburg (890), Billy Meier (1937), and Wiborada (900).

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