OCCULTIST

Erik Jan Hanussen

1889 - 1933

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Erik Jan Hanussen, born Hermann Steinschneider (2 June 1889 – 25 March 1933), was an Austrian Jewish publicist, charlatan and clairvoyant performer. Acclaimed in his lifetime as a hypnotist, mentalist, occultist and astrologer, Hanussen was active in Weimar Republic Germany and also at the beginning of Nazi Germany. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Erik Jan Hanussen has received more than 740,211 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Erik Jan Hanussen is the 18th most popular occultist, the 309th most popular biography from Austria and the 2nd most popular Austrian Occultist.

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Among OCCULTISTS

Among occultists, Erik Jan Hanussen ranks 18 out of 41. Before him are Joachim of Fiore, Edgar Cayce, Anton LaVey, Gérard Encausse, Edward Kelley, and Guido von List. After him are Louis Claude de Saint-Martin, Józef Maria Hoene-Wroński, Robert Fludd, Jörg Lanz von Liebenfels, Stanislas de Guaita, and Michael Scot.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1889, Erik Jan Hanussen ranks 51. Before him are Hannes Kolehmainen, Hans-Jürgen Stumpff, Siegfried Kracauer, Hannah Höch, Lyubov Popova, and Frank Lentini. After him are Vera Mukhina, Stanislav Kosior, Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Beno Gutenberg, Thomas Midgley Jr., and Richard Glücks. Among people deceased in 1933, Erik Jan Hanussen ranks 26. Before him are Erhard Heiden, Kenji Miyazawa, Hipólito Yrigoyen, Paul Painlevé, Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich of Russia, and Prince Luigi Amedeo, Duke of the Abruzzi. After him are Albert Calmette, Archduke Charles Stephen of Austria, Francesc Macià, Hans Vaihinger, Henry Royce, and Louis Comfort Tiffany.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Erik Jan Hanussen ranks 309 out of 1,424. Before him are Franz Böhme (1885), István Széchenyi (1791), Senta Berger (1941), Archduchess Marie Caroline of Austria (1801), Hermine Braunsteiner (1919), and Ludwig Ritter von Köchel (1800). After him are Giovanni Battista Caproni (1886), Karl Silberbauer (1911), Maria Theresa of Austria (1801), Fritjof Capra (1939), Archduchess Margarete Sophie of Austria (1870), and Otto Hofmann (1896).

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Among OCCULTISTS In Austria

Among occultists born in Austria, Erik Jan Hanussen ranks 2. Before him are Guido von List (1848). After him are Jörg Lanz von Liebenfels (1874).

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