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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 184,720 page views. Her biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Anna Göldi is the 911th most popular religious figure (down from 782nd in 2019), the 110th most popular biography from Switzerland (down from 100th in 2019) and the 5th 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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  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.34

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.98

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Anna Göldi ranks 911 out of 2,238. Before her are Cyril Lucaris, Priscillian, Saint Sabina, Blessed Gerard, Mary of Jesus de León y Delgado, and Hermenegild. After her are Carlo Maria Viganò, Arnold of Brescia, Gerolamo Emiliani, Joanna, wife of Chuza, Eleazar, and Louise de Marillac.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1734, Anna Göldi ranks 8. Before her are Maria I of Portugal, Grigory Orlov, Cardinal de Rohan, Taksin, François-Joseph Gossec, and Wolfgang von Kempelen. After her are Sophie of France, Charles Alexandre de Calonne, Joseph Wright of Derby, Shahrokh Shah, Nicolas-Edme Rétif, and Yves-Joseph de Kerguelen-Trémarec. Among people deceased in 1782, Anna Göldi ranks 11. Before her are Pietro Metastasio, Jacques de Vaucanson, Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo, 1st Marquis of Pombal, Louisa Ulrika of Prussia, Taksin, and Ange-Jacques Gabriel. After her are Sophie of France, Andreas Sigismund Marggraf, Princess Friederike of Hesse-Darmstadt, Hyder Ali, Prince George William of Hesse-Darmstadt, and Princess Maria Carolina of Savoy.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Anna Göldi ranks 110 out of 876. Before her are Ludwig Binswanger (1881), Gaspard Bauhin (1560), César Ritz (1850), Albert Anker (1831), Hans Urs von Balthasar (1905), and Charles Bonnet (1720). After her are Princess Maria Teresa of Bourbon-Two Sicilies (1867), Henri Guisan (1874), Judith of Habsburg (1271), Jacques Dubochet (1942), Gottfried Keller (1819), and Paul Guldin (1577).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In Switzerland

Among religious figures born in Switzerland, Anna Göldi ranks 5. Before her are Huldrych Zwingli (1484), Hans Küng (1928), Brother Roger (1915), and Nicholas of Flüe (1417). After her are Heinrich Bullinger (1504), Jacob Sprenger (1435), Jakob Ammann (1644), Ulrich of Augsburg (890), Billy Meier (1937), Emil Brunner (1889), and Maurice Bavaud (1916).

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