RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Bartholomäus Ziegenbalg

1682 - 1719

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Bartholomäus Ziegenbalg (24 June 1683 – 23 February 1719) was a member of the Lutheran clergy and the first Pietist missionary to India. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Bartholomäus Ziegenbalg has received more than 186,048 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Bartholomäus Ziegenbalg is the 2,402nd most popular religious figure (down from 2,130th in 2019), the 4,118th most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,624th in 2019) and the 106th most popular German Religious Figure.

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Bartholomäus Ziegenbalg ranks 2,402 out of 3,187Before him are Saint Alphonsa, Ursula Ledóchowska, Paul Josef Cordes, Giorgio Demetrio Gallaro, Antonio Riberi, and Stanislaus Papczyński. After him are Pertinax of Byzantium, Pino Puglisi, Serapion of Antioch, André Bessette, Gregorio Rosa Chávez, and Francisco Coll Guitart.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1682, Bartholomäus Ziegenbalg ranks 19Before him are Roger Cotes, Jean-François Dandrieu, Christian Ferdinand Abel, John Hadley, Princess Johanna Charlotte of Anhalt-Dessau, and Johann Jacob Bach. After him are Shahu I, Jean-Joseph Mouret, and James Gibbs. Among people deceased in 1719, Bartholomäus Ziegenbalg ranks 20Before him are Arp Schnitger, Carlo Cignani, Georg Heinrich von Görtz, Pasquier Quesnel, Rafi ud-Darajat, and Köprülüzade Numan Pasha. After him are Pierre Raymond de Montmort, Shah Jahan II, and Magdalena Sibylla of Holstein-Gottorp.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Bartholomäus Ziegenbalg ranks 4,118 out of 7,253Before him are Wilhelm Nusselt (1882), Hans Furler (1904), Loki Schmidt (1919), Christian Henry, Margrave of Brandenburg-Kulmbach (1661), Princess Agnes of Anhalt-Dessau (1824), and Carl Remigius Fresenius (1818). After him are Philipp Jakob Cretzschmar (1786), Richard Goldschmidt (1878), Wilhelm Heye (1869), Eleonore Wilhelmine of Anhalt-Köthen (1696), Wolfgang Becker (1954), and Erich Ollenhauer (1901).

Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In Germany

Among religious figures born in Germany, Bartholomäus Ziegenbalg ranks 106Before him are Caspar Olevian (1536), Gustav Adolf, Cardinal Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst (1823), Julius Döpfner (1913), Karl Josef Becker (1928), Marianne Cope (1838), and Paul Josef Cordes (1934). After him are Johannes Brenz (1499), Franz Delitzsch (1813), Gerhard von Rad (1901), Nicolaus von Amsdorf (1483), Joseph Höffner (1906), and Joseph Wendel (1901).