OCCULTIST

Guido von List

1848 - 1919

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Guido Karl Anton List (5 October 1848 – 17 May 1919), better known as Guido von List, was an Austrian occultist, journalist, playwright, and novelist. He expounded a modern Pagan new religious movement known as Wotanism, which he claimed was the revival of the religion of the ancient German race, and which included an inner set of Ariosophical teachings that he termed Armanism. Born to a wealthy middle-class family in Vienna, List claimed that he abandoned his family's Roman Catholic faith in childhood, instead devoting himself to the pre-Christian god Wotan. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Guido von List has received more than 456,131 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Guido von List is the 17th most popular occultist (down from 16th in 2019), the 283rd most popular biography from Austria (up from 288th in 2019) and the most popular Austrian Occultist.

Güid von List is most famous for his book "The Secret of the Runes" which is a book that was published in 1899.

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Among OCCULTISTS

Among occultists, Guido von List ranks 17 out of 41. Before him are Éliphas Lévi, Joachim of Fiore, Edgar Cayce, Anton LaVey, Gérard Encausse, and Edward Kelley. After him are Erik Jan Hanussen, Louis Claude de Saint-Martin, Józef Maria Hoene-Wroński, Robert Fludd, Jörg Lanz von Liebenfels, and Stanislas de Guaita.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1848, Guido von List ranks 28. Before him are Katsura Tarō, Zinovy Rozhestvensky, Milena Vukotić, Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll, Victor Noir, and Johann Palisa. After him are Loránd Eötvös, Hristo Botev, Hermann Alexander Diels, Carlos, Duke of Madrid, Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, and Princess Marie Isabelle of Orléans. Among people deceased in 1919, Guido von List ranks 29. Before him are Kurt Eisner, Johannes Rydberg, Terauchi Masatake, Leonid Andreyev, Habibullah Khan, and Prince John of the United Kingdom. After him are Madam C. J. Walker, Loránd Eötvös, Henry Gantt, Sophia Tolstaya, Franz Mehring, and Georg von Hertling.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Guido von List ranks 283 out of 1,424. Before him are Claudia Felicitas of Austria (1653), Hans Hollein (1934), Gaston Glock (1929), Paul Watzlawick (1921), Maria Leopoldine of Austria (1632), and Oskar Werner (1922). After him are Baron Alexander von Bach (1813), Alexander Wienerberger (1891), Franz Xaver Süssmayr (1766), Kunigunde of Austria (1465), Archduchess Eleanor of Austria (1534), and Felix Baumgartner (1969).

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Among OCCULTISTS In Austria

Among occultists born in Austria, Guido von List ranks 1. After him are Erik Jan Hanussen (1889), and Jörg Lanz von Liebenfels (1874).

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