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RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Jacob Frank

1726 - 1791

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Jacob Joseph Frank (Hebrew: יעקב פרנק; Polish: Jakub Józef Frank; born Jakub Lejbowicz; 1726 – 10 December 1791) was a Polish-Jewish religious leader who claimed to be the reincarnation of the self-proclaimed messiah Sabbatai Zevi (1626–1676) and also of the biblical patriarch Jacob. The Jewish authorities in Poland excommunicated Frank and his followers due to his heretical doctrines that included deification of himself as a part of a trinity and other controversial concepts such as neo-Carpocratian "purification through transgression". Frank arguably created a religious movement, now referred to as Frankism, which incorporated aspects of Christianity and Judaism. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jacob Frank has received more than 567,828 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Jacob Frank is the 938th most popular religious figure (down from 691st in 2019), the 157th most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 92nd in 2019) and the 5th most popular Ukrainian Religious Figure.

Jacob Frank was a Jewish apostate who converted to Catholicism and became a Jesuit priest. He is most famous for founding the Order of the Illuminati, an Enlightenment-era secret society.

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  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.41

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  • 2.18

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Jacob Frank ranks 938 out of 2,238. Before him are Reginald Pole, Alessandro Valignano, Severinus of Noricum, José Freire Falcão, Heinrich Bullinger, and Antipope Victor IV. After him are Bavo of Ghent, Gotthard of Hildesheim, Alessandro Farnese, Joseph Franklin Rutherford, Abd al-Rahman ibn Muljam, and Paul of Samosata.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1726, Jacob Frank ranks 7. Before him are François-André Danican Philidor, James Hutton, Maria Teresa Rafaela of Spain, Victor Amadeus III of Sardinia, Gerard Majella, and Franz Joseph I, Prince of Liechtenstein. After him are Prince Henry of Prussia, Princess Louise of Denmark, Louise Henriette de Bourbon, Daniel Chodowiecki, Maria Teresa Felicitas d'Este, and Alexander Ypsilantis. Among people deceased in 1791, Jacob Frank ranks 7. Before him are Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Grigory Potemkin, Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau, John Wesley, Jeanne de Valois-Saint-Rémy, and Étienne Maurice Falconet. After him are Joseph Gaertner, Ignaz von Born, Christian Friedrich Daniel Schubart, João de Loureiro, Tomás de Iriarte y Oropesa, and Francesca Lebrun.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Jacob Frank ranks 157 out of 1,083. Before him are Pavel Popovich (1930), Anastasia of Kiev (1023), Heinrich Neuhaus (1888), Stanisław Jerzy Lec (1909), Anatole Litvak (1902), and Ewelina Hańska (1805). After him are Georgy Pyatakov (1890), Shvarn (1230), Grigory Kulik (1890), Jan Łukasiewicz (1878), Richard von Mises (1883), and Semion Mogilevich (1946).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In Ukraine

Among religious figures born in Ukraine, Jacob Frank ranks 5. Before him are Baal Shem Tov (1700), Nachman of Breslov (1772), Josaphat Kuntsevych (1580), and Menachem Mendel Schneerson (1902). After him are Filaret (1929), Theodosius of Kiev (1029), Paisius Velichkovsky (1722), Hilarion of Kiev (990), Anthony of Kiev (983), Dimitry of Rostov (1651), and John of Shanghai and San Francisco (1896).

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