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RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Hans Küng

1928 - 2021

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Hans Küng (German: [ˈhans ˈkʏŋ]; 19 March 1928 – 6 April 2021) was a Swiss Catholic priest, theologian, and author. From 1995 he was president of the Foundation for a Global Ethic (Stiftung Weltethos). Küng was ordained a priest in 1954, joined the faculty of the University of Tübingen in 1960, and served as a theological adviser during the Second Vatican Council. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hans Küng has received more than 479,339 page views. His biography is available in 42 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 39 in 2019). Hans Küng is the 644th most popular religious figure (down from 607th in 2019), the 60th most popular biography from Switzerland (down from 56th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Swiss Religious Figure.

Hans Küng is a German theologian and Catholic priest. He was a professor of theology at the University of Tübingen, Germany and is now emeritus. He is most famous for his disagreement with the Catholic Church's teachings on papal infallibility.

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  • 480k

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  • 64.58

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  • 42

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.01

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  • 2.72

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Hans Küng ranks 644 out of 2,238. Before him are Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, Célestin Freinet, Dōgen, Patriarch Kirill of Moscow, Hind bint Utbah, and Pancras of Rome. After him are Pope Leo V, Twosret, Mahavatar Babaji, Eli, Victor of Aveyron, and Athenagoras I of Constantinople.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1928, Hans Küng ranks 36. Before him are George Peppard, James Coburn, Queen Fabiola of Belgium, Martin Landau, Alberto Korda, and Martin Cooper. After him are Geert Hofstede, Maya Angelou, Domenico Modugno, Carlos Fuentes, Lina Wertmüller, and Tommaso Buscetta. Among people deceased in 2021, Hans Küng ranks 35. Before him are Donald Rumsfeld, Carlos Menem, Anne Rice, Abimael Guzmán, Bernard Haitink, and Steven Weinberg. After him are Frank Williams, Chick Corea, Robert Mundell, Jorge Sampaio, Carlos Reutemann, and Martinus J. G. Veltman.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Hans Küng ranks 60 out of 876. Before him are Clay Regazzoni (1939), Johann Jakob Balmer (1825), H. R. Giger (1940), Gabriel Cramer (1704), Friedrich Miescher (1844), and Ferdinand Hodler (1853). After him are Walter Rudolf Hess (1881), Paul Hermann Müller (1899), Emil Jannings (1884), Alexandre Yersin (1863), Max Frisch (1911), and Alisha Lehmann (23).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In Switzerland

Among religious figures born in Switzerland, Hans Küng ranks 2. Before him are Huldrych Zwingli (1484). After him are Brother Roger (1915), Nicholas of Flüe (1417), Anna Göldi (1734), Heinrich Bullinger (1504), Jacob Sprenger (1435), Jakob Ammann (1644), Ulrich of Augsburg (890), Billy Meier (1937), Emil Brunner (1889), and Maurice Bavaud (1916).

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