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Gérard Encausse

1865 - 1916

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Gérard Anaclet Vincent Encausse (13 July 1865 – 25 October 1916), whose esoteric pseudonyms were Papus and Tau Vincent, was a French physician, hypnotist, and popularizer of occultism, who founded the modern Martinist Order. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gérard Encausse has received more than 162,448 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Gérard Encausse is the 15th most popular occultist, the 312th most popular biography from Spain (up from 330th in 2019) and the most popular Spanish Occultist.

Gérard Encausse is most famous for being the first person to climb Mount Everest without oxygen.

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Among OCCULTISTS

Among occultists, Gérard Encausse ranks 15 out of 41. Before him are Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, Allan Kardec, Éliphas Lévi, Joachim of Fiore, Edgar Cayce, and Anton LaVey. After him are Edward Kelley, Guido von List, Erik Jan Hanussen, Louis Claude de Saint-Martin, Józef Maria Hoene-Wroński, and Robert Fludd.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1865, Gérard Encausse ranks 27. Before him are Benjamin Guggenheim, Frederick Augustus III of Saxony, Félix Vallotton, Amélie of Orléans, Akseli Gallen-Kallela, and Jacques Hadamard. After him are Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg, Valentin Serov, Gabriel Narutowicz, Rashid Rida, Mikao Usui, and John Mott. Among people deceased in 1916, Gérard Encausse ranks 35. Before him are Vilhelm Hammershøi, Colmar Freiherr von der Goltz, Gaston Maspero, Torakusu Yamaha, Rubén Darío, and Percival Lowell. After him are Jean Webster, Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener, Victoriano Huerta, Hiram Maxim, Hugo Münsterberg, and Pierre Duhem.

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In Spain

Among people born in Spain, Gérard Encausse ranks 312 out of 3,355. Before him are Thérésa Tallien (1773), Lluís Domènech i Montaner (1850), Pedro Cea (1900), Isidore the Laborer (1080), George Santayana (1863), and Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer (1836). After him are César Manrique (1919), Alfonso II of Asturias (759), Abdullah ibn Muhammad al-Umawi (844), Lluís Llach (1948), Emilio Butragueño (1963), and Hisham I of Córdoba (757).

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Among OCCULTISTS In Spain

Among occultists born in Spain, Gérard Encausse ranks 1. 

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