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RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Diego de Landa

1524 - 1579

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Diego de Landa Calderón, O.F.M. (12 November 1524 – 29 April 1579) was a Spanish Franciscan bishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Yucatán. He led a campaign against idolatry and human sacrifice. In doing so, he burned Maya manuscripts (codices) which contained knowledge of Maya religion and civilization, and the history of the American continent. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Diego de Landa has received more than 328,963 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Diego de Landa is the 846th most popular religious figure (up from 850th in 2019), the 324th most popular biography from Spain (up from 358th in 2019) and the 27th most popular Spanish Religious Figure.

Diego de Landa was a Spanish poet who is most famous for his epic poem La Araucana.

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  • 330k

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  • 60.80

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.03

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.92

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Diego de Landa ranks 846 out of 2,238. Before him are Isidore the Laborer, Giuseppe Caspar Mezzofanti, Pope Leo VIII, Sheikh Adi ibn Musafir, Athanasius the Athonite, and Saint Silvia. After him are Antipas of Pergamum, Simeon of Jerusalem, Menachem Mendel Schneerson, Zeno of Verona, Columba, and Theodore Stratelates.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1524, Diego de Landa ranks 4. Before him are Selim II, Luís de Camões, and Pierre de Ronsard. After him are Ottavio Farnese, Duke of Parma, Joseph Nasi, Louise Labé, Charles, Cardinal of Lorraine, Philip de Montmorency, Count of Horn, Rani Durgavati, François Hotman, and Elizabeth of Denmark, Duchess of Mecklenburg. Among people deceased in 1579, Diego de Landa ranks 3. Before him are Sokollu Mehmed Pasha and Albert V, Duke of Bavaria. After him are Joseph Nasi, Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada, Thomas Gresham, Hans Staden, Ferenc Dávid, Juan Fernández Navarrete, Stanislaus Hosius, Simão Rodrigues, and John Ogilvie.

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In Spain

Among people born in Spain, Diego de Landa ranks 324 out of 2,932. Before him are Juana Enríquez (1425), Maria Anna of Spain (1606), Francisco Jiménez de Cisneros (1436), Isidore the Laborer (1080), Gonzalo Pizarro (1510), and John of Austria the Younger (1629). After him are Ruy López de Segura (1530), Ferdinand Columbus (1488), Abraham Cresques (1325), Alfonso, Prince of Asturias (1907), Catherine of Navarre (1470), and Gérard Encausse (1865).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In Spain

Among religious figures born in Spain, Diego de Landa ranks 27. Before him are Peter of Saint Joseph de Betancur (1626), Raymond of Penyafort (1175), Francisco Álvarez Martínez (1925), Eduardo Martínez Somalo (1927), Francisco Jiménez de Cisneros (1436), and Isidore the Laborer (1080). After him are Peter of Alcantara (1499), John of Ávila (1500), Antipope Clement VIII (1370), Al-Qurtubi (1214), Eulalia of Barcelona (290), and Priscillian (340).

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