RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Brother Roger

1915 - 2005

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Roger Schutz (12 May 1915 – 16 August 2005), popularly known as Brother Roger (French: Frère Roger), was a Swiss Christian leader and monastic brother. In 1940 Schutz founded the Taizé Community, an ecumenical monastic community in Burgundy, France, serving as its first prior until his murder in 2005. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Brother Roger has received more than 234,680 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia. Brother Roger is the 772nd most popular religious figure (down from 761st in 2019), the 94th most popular biography from Switzerland (down from 87th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Swiss Religious Figure.

Brother Roger is most famous for founding the Taizé Community in France.

Memorability Metrics

  • 230k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 62.44

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 32

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.15

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.21

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Brother Rogers by language

Over the past year Brother Roger has had the most page views in the with 34,580 views, followed by English (26,634), and French (10,491). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are French (406.08%), Ido (103.79%), and Latin (89.61%)

Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Brother Roger ranks 772 out of 3,187. Before him are Sasan, Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow, John Henry Newman, Romuald, Zephaniah, and Onesimus. After him are Giuseppe Caspar Mezzofanti, Anna Göldi, Gerard of Csanád, Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo, Peter of Saint Joseph de Betancur, and Giovanni Battista Re.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1915, Brother Roger ranks 34. Before him are Robert Hofstadter, Clifford Shull, Norman Foster Ramsey Jr., Aziz Nesin, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, and Thomas Huckle Weller. After him are Shoichi Yokoi, Rudolf Kirchschläger, Chung Ju-yung, Princess Lilian, Duchess of Halland, Bob Kane, and Franz Josef Strauss. Among people deceased in 2005, Brother Roger ranks 38. Before him are Milton Obote, Moustapha Akkad, Max Schmeling, Ahmed Deedat, Maria Schell, and Mary Jackson. After him are Birgit Nilsson, John Fowles, George Dantzig, Philip Johnson, Rosemary Kennedy, and Ephraim Kishon.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Brother Roger ranks 94 out of 1,015. Before him are Mario Botta (1943), Jean Tinguely (1925), Gianni Infantino (1970), Johann Kaspar Lavater (1741), François Vatel (1631), and Louis Agassiz (1807). After him are Anna Göldi (1734), Albrecht von Haller (1708), Rudolf II, Duke of Austria (1270), Louis, Duke of Savoy (1413), Nicholas of Flüe (1417), and Germain Henri Hess (1802).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In Switzerland

Among religious figures born in Switzerland, Brother Roger ranks 3. Before him are Huldrych Zwingli (1484), and Hans Küng (1928). After him are Anna Göldi (1734), 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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