RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Bruno of Cologne

1030 - 1101

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Bruno of Cologne, OCart (German: Bruno von Köln; Italian: Bruno di Colonia; c. 1030 – 6 October 1101), venerated as Saint Bruno, was the founder of the Carthusians. He personally founded the order's first two communities. He was a celebrated teacher at Reims and a close advisor of his former pupil, Pope Urban II. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Bruno of Cologne has received more than 310,883 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia. Bruno of Cologne is the 501st most popular religious figure (down from 455th in 2019), the 398th most popular biography from Germany (down from 364th in 2019) and the 11th most popular German Religious Figure.

Bruno of cologne is most famous for being the first fragrance to use aldehydes.

Memorability Metrics

  • 310k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 67.60

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 33

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.16

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.12

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Bruno of Cologne ranks 501 out of 3,187. Before him are Devadatta, Dorothea of Caesarea, Hasan al-Askari, Saint Eustace, Ramla bint Abi Sufyan, and Ibn Majah. After him are Mus‘ab ibn 'Umair, 13th Dalai Lama, Rāhula, Maria al-Qibtiyya, Paul of Thebes, and Rose of Lima.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1030, Bruno of Cologne ranks 2. Before him is Romanos IV Diogenes. After him are Vsevolod I of Kiev, Stanislaus of Szczepanów, Stenkil, Emund the Old, Baldwin VI, Count of Flanders, Anna Dalassene, Gertrude of Saxony, Lulach, Sigebert of Gembloux, and Gerard, Duke of Lorraine. Among people deceased in 1101, Bruno of Cologne ranks 3. Before him are Mahmud al-Kashgari, and Roger I of Sicily. After him are Su Shi, John Skylitzes, Hugh, Count of Vermandois, Conrad II of Italy, Akka Mahadevi, Emperor Daozong of Liao, Su Song, Welf I, Duke of Bavaria, and Vseslav of Polotsk.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Bruno of Cologne ranks 398 out of 7,253. Before him are Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld (1911), Frederica of Hanover (1917), Franz Bopp (1791), Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (1776), Sepp Maier (1944), and Prince Claus of the Netherlands (1926). After him are Wolfram von Eschenbach (1170), Joachim Peiper (1915), Julius von Mayer (1814), Hans Luther (1879), Otto Diels (1876), and Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach (1732).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In Germany

Among religious figures born in Germany, Bruno of Cologne ranks 11. Before him are Albertus Magnus (1206), Pope Joan (null), Pope Damasus II (1000), Philip Melanchthon (1497), Pope Clement II (1005), and Thomas à Kempis (1380). After him are Pope Victor II (1018), Rabanus Maurus (780), Anne Catherine Emmerich (1774), Gertrude the Great (1256), Johann Tetzel (1460), and Therese Neumann (1898).

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