RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Bruno of Querfurt

970 - 1009

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Bruno of Querfurt, O.S.B. Cam., (c. 974 – 14 February or 9/14 March 1009), also known as Brun, was a Christian missionary bishop, Camaldolese monk and martyr, who was beheaded near the border of Kievan Rus and Lithuania for trying to spread Christianity. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Bruno of Querfurt has received more than 85,404 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Bruno of Querfurt is the 760th most popular religious figure (up from 778th in 2019), the 833rd most popular biography from Germany (up from 889th in 2019) and the 19th most popular German Religious Figure.

Bruno of Querfurt is most famous for being the first to translate the Bible into the Old High German language.

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  • 85k

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  • 62.80

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 27

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.23

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.81

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Bruno of Querfurt ranks 760 out of 3,187. Before him are Erasmus of Formia, Antipope Nicholas V, Theodora, John the Merciful, Theophilus of Antioch, and Ilia II of Georgia. After him are Leonard of Noblac, Karmapa, Menachem Mendel Schneerson, Stanislaus of Szczepanów, Margaret of Hungary, and Sasan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 970, Bruno of Querfurt ranks 4. Before him are Leif Erikson, Pope John XVIII, and Pope Sergius IV. After him are Fulk III, Count of Anjou, Oldřich, Duke of Bohemia, Al-Sharif al-Radi, Otto, Duke of Lower Lorraine, Conrad I, Duke of Carinthia, Åsta Gudbrandsdatter, Procopius of Sázava, and Hawise of Normandy. Among people deceased in 1009, Bruno of Querfurt ranks 2. Before him is Pope John XVIII. After him are Ibn Yunus, Mokjong of Goryeo, Pietro II Orseolo, Tilopa, and Abd al-Rahman Sanchuelo.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Bruno of Querfurt ranks 833 out of 7,253. Before him are Bernhard Schlink (1944), Levin August von Bennigsen (1745), Sophia Dorothea of Celle (1666), Christiane Eberhardine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth (1671), Klaus Hasselmann (1931), and Otto Ernst Remer (1912). After him are Herta Oberheuser (1911), Joachim II Hector, Elector of Brandenburg (1505), Georg Ernst Stahl (1659), Karlheinz Böhm (1928), Friedrich Mohs (1773), and Felix Magath (1953).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In Germany

Among religious figures born in Germany, Bruno of Querfurt ranks 19. Before him are Rabanus Maurus (780), Anne Catherine Emmerich (1774), Gertrude the Great (1256), Johann Tetzel (1460), Therese Neumann (1898), and Albert of Brandenburg (1490). After him are Margot Frank (1926), Nicolaus Zinzendorf (1700), Killing of Peter Fechter (1944), Severinus of Noricum (410), Gotthard of Hildesheim (960), and Karl Theodor Anton Maria von Dalberg (1744).

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