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Hans Gross

1847 - 1915

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Hans Gustav Adolf Gross or Groß (26 December 1847 – 9 December 1915) was an Austrian criminal jurist and criminologist, the "Founding Father" of criminal profiling. A criminal jurist, Gross made a mark as the creator of the field of criminality. Throughout his life, Hans Gross made significant contributions to the realm of scientific criminology. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hans Gross has received more than 178,149 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Hans Gross is the 30th most popular lawyer (up from 34th in 2019), the 434th most popular biography from Austria (up from 503rd in 2019) and the most popular Austrian Lawyer.

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Among LAWYERS

Among lawyers, Hans Gross ranks 30 out of 136Before him are Fabian von Schlabrendorff, Helmuth James von Moltke, Ewald Georg von Kleist, Warren Christopher, Al-Sarakhsi, and Baldus de Ubaldis. After him are Qasim Amin, Kiki Camarena, Lucius Cincius Alimentus, Franz von Liszt, Alfenus Varus, and Hans Litten.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1847, Hans Gross ranks 32Before him are Frits Thaulow, Princess Leopoldina of Brazil, Camille Doncieux, Galileo Ferraris, John Bates Clark, and Jacob Schiff. After him are Princess Margherita of Bourbon-Parma, Sidney Sonnino, Adolf von Hildebrand, Philipp, Prince of Eulenburg, Ferdinand Fellner, and Nakano Takeko. Among people deceased in 1915, Hans Gross ranks 35Before him are Karl Goldmark, Anna Leonowens, Julius von Payer, I. L. Peretz, Oswald Külpe, and Ankō Itosu. After him are Theodor Leschetizky, Vazha-Pshavela, Mubarak Al-Sabah, Nathan Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild, François Faber, and Sandford Fleming.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Hans Gross ranks 434 out of 1,424Before him are Ivan Šubašić (1892), Moritz von Schwind (1804), Annie Fischer (1914), Charles of Austria, Bishop of Wroclaw (1590), Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić (1874), and Otto F. Kernberg (1928). After him are Paul Badura-Skoda (1927), Marisa Mell (1939), Georg Alexander Pick (1859), Kurt Diemberger (1932), Aloys II, Prince of Liechtenstein (1796), and Anna Mahler (1904).

Among LAWYERS In Austria

Among lawyers born in Austria, Hans Gross ranks 1After him are Franz von Liszt (1851), Hans von Dohnanyi (1902), and Felix Frankfurter (1882).