RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Anne Catherine Emmerich

1774 - 1824

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Anne Catherine Emmerich, CRV (also Anna Katharina Emmerick; 8 September 1774 – 9 February 1824) was a Roman Catholic Augustinian canoness of the Congregation of Windesheim. During her lifetime, she was a purported mystic, Marian visionary and stigmatist. Emmerich was born in Flamschen, an impoverished farming community at Coesfeld, in the Diocese of Münster, Westphalia, Germany, and died in Dülmen (aged 49), where she had been a bedridden nun. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Anne Catherine Emmerich has received more than 797,737 page views. Her biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Anne Catherine Emmerich is the 607th most popular religious figure (down from 571st in 2019), the 540th most popular biography from Germany (down from 518th in 2019) and the 14th most popular German Religious Figure.

Anne Catherine Emmerich was a German mystic and seer who had visions of the Virgin Mary and the life of Jesus. She is most famous for her account of the life of Jesus, which she wrote in 1820.

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Anne Catherine Emmerich ranks 607 out of 3,187. Before her are Pope Stephen V, Pope Theodore II, Muhammad Ahmad, John Wesley, Seraphim of Sarov, and Pope Stephen IX. After her are Josaphat Kuntsevych, Huineng, Angela Merici, Giulia Farnese, Korah, and Abu Dhar al-Ghifari.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1774, Anne Catherine Emmerich ranks 4. Before her are Caspar David Friedrich, Jean-Baptiste Biot, and Auguste de Marmont. After her are Wilhelmine of Prussia, Queen of the Netherlands, Giuseppe Caspar Mezzofanti, Gaspare Spontini, Francis Beaufort, Jean Marc Gaspard Itard, Pierre-Narcisse Guérin, William Henry, and Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge. Among people deceased in 1824, Anne Catherine Emmerich ranks 6. Before her are Lord Byron, Louis XVIII of France, Eugène de Beauharnais, Théodore Géricault, and Victor Emmanuel I of Sardinia. After her are Ferdinand III, Grand Duke of Tuscany, Agustín de Iturbide, James Parkinson, Giovanni Battista Viotti, Jean Jacques Régis de Cambacérès, and Rama II of Siam.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Anne Catherine Emmerich ranks 540 out of 7,253. Before her are Maria Sophie of Bavaria (1841), Theodor Morell (1886), Klaus Fuchs (1911), Hugh of Saint Victor (1096), Jochen Rindt (1942), and Adolf Galland (1912). After her are Rudi Völler (1960), Philipp Scheidemann (1865), Aby Warburg (1866), Wilhelm List (1880), Wilhelm Marx (1863), and Louis II, Prince of Monaco (1870).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In Germany

Among religious figures born in Germany, Anne Catherine Emmerich ranks 14. Before her are Philip Melanchthon (1497), Pope Clement II (1005), Thomas à Kempis (1380), Bruno of Cologne (1030), Pope Victor II (1018), and Rabanus Maurus (780). After her are Gertrude the Great (1256), Johann Tetzel (1460), Therese Neumann (1898), Albert of Brandenburg (1490), Bruno of Querfurt (970), and Margot Frank (1926).

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