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POLITICIAN

Heshen

1750 - 1799

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Heshen (Manchu: ᡥᡝᡧᡝᠨ, Möllendorff: Hešen; Chinese: 和珅; pinyin: Héshēn; Wade–Giles: Ho2-shen1; 1 July 1750 – 22 February 1799) of the Manchu Niohuru clan, was an official of the Qing dynasty favored by the Qianlong Emperor and called the most corrupt official in Chinese history. After the death of Qianlong, the Jiaqing Emperor confiscated Heshen's wealth and forced him to commit suicide. As an official, he acquired an estimated at 1.1 billion taels of silver, equal to roughly US$270 billion. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Heshen has received more than 432,384 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Heshen is the 3,054th most popular politician (up from 3,170th in 2019), the 239th most popular biography from China (up from 254th in 2019) and the 153rd most popular Chinese Politician.

Heshen is most famous for being a corrupt official during the Qing Dynasty. Heshen was able to rise through the ranks of government because he was able to bribe the emperor. He was eventually executed for his corrupt behavior.

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  • 25

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Heshen ranks 3,054 out of 15,577Before him are Emperor Kaika, Sargon I, Ladislaus II of Hungary, Julius Nyerere, Aspar, and Arkan. After him are René II, Duke of Lorraine, Sigismund Báthory, Magnus I of Sweden, Casimir I the Restorer, Lydia Litvyak, and Abdul Salam Arif.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1750, Heshen ranks 10Before him are Tipu Sultan, Frederick Augustus I of Saxony, Caroline Herschel, Francis, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, Archduchess Maria Johanna Gabriela of Austria, and Francisco de Miranda. After him are Maria Beatrice d'Este, Duchess of Massa, Murad Bey, Sheikh Mansur, Karl August von Hardenberg, Ami Argand, and Adam Afzelius. Among people deceased in 1799, Heshen ranks 10Before him are Maria Gaetana Agnesi, Pierre Beaumarchais, Tipu Sultan, Joseph Black, Lazzaro Spallanzani, and Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. After him are Charles Theodore, Elector of Bavaria, Horace Bénédict de Saussure, Victoire of France, Étienne-Louis Boullée, Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf, and Jan Ingenhousz.

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In China

Among people born in China, Heshen ranks 239 out of 1,392Before him are Di Renjie (630), Guo Jia (170), Liu Hui (225), Wong Kar-wai (1958), Cao Xueqin (1724), and Huang Zhong (148). After him are Tsung-Dao Lee (1926), Emperor Cheng of Han (-51), Zhang Jue (200), Emperor Hui of Jin (259), Emperor Taizu of Jin (1068), and Liu Biao (142).

Among POLITICIANS In China

Among politicians born in China, Heshen ranks 153Before him are Emperor Yuan of Han (-75), Empress Wanrong (1906), Zhao Bing (1271), Pujie (1907), Di Renjie (630), and Guo Jia (170). After him are Emperor Cheng of Han (-51), Emperor Hui of Jin (259), Emperor Taizu of Jin (1068), Liu Biao (142), Xiao He (-257), and Liu Bian (176).