RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Jakob Ammann

1644 - 1730

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Jakob Ammann (also Jacob Amman, Amann; 12 February 1644 – between 1712 and 1730) was a Swiss Anabaptist leader and the namesake of the Amish religious movement. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jakob Ammann has received more than 732,323 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Jakob Ammann is the 1,100th most popular religious figure (up from 1,101st in 2019), the 152nd most popular biography from Switzerland (down from 150th in 2019) and the 9th most popular Swiss Religious Figure.

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Jakob Ammann ranks 1,100 out of 3,187. Before him are Jeanne Guyon, John IV of Constantinople, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Isaac in Islam, Pope Pontian, and Ibn Qudamah. After him are Khabbab ibn al-Aratt, Alois Hudal, Simeon Stylites the Younger, Shamgar, Muhammad ibn al-Uthaymeen, and Tode Mongke.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1644, Jakob Ammann ranks 8. Before him are Matsuo Bashō, Ole Rømer, Henrietta of England, Louise de La Vallière, Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber, and Galdan Boshugtu Khan. After him are Marie Jeanne Baptiste of Savoy-Nemours, Louis-François de Boufflers, François de Neufville, duc de Villeroy, Amcazade Köprülü Hüseyin Pasha, Jean Jouvenet, and Christian Ernst, Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth. Among people deceased in 1730, Jakob Ammann ranks 8. Before him are Peter II of Russia, Frederick IV of Denmark, Leonardo Vinci, Theresa Kunegunda Sobieska, Charles I, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel, and Hans Hermann von Katte. After him are Árni Magnússon, Adrienne Lecouvreur, François de Neufville, duc de Villeroy, Luigi Ferdinando Marsili, Benedicta Henrietta of the Palatinate, and Ashraf Hotak.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Jakob Ammann ranks 152 out of 1,015. Before him are Ami Argand (1750), Infante Carlos, Duke of Calabria (1938), Alexander Agassiz (1835), Jaime, Duke of Madrid (1870), Nicolaus II Bernoulli (1695), and Princess Maria Teresa of Bourbon-Two Sicilies (1867). After him are Auguste Forel (1848), Köbi Kuhn (1943), Ulrich of Augsburg (890), Max Bill (1908), Rudolf I, Duke of Bavaria (1274), and Ernest Bloch (1880).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In Switzerland

Among religious figures born in Switzerland, Jakob Ammann ranks 9. Before him are Brother Roger (1915), Anna Göldi (1734), Nicholas of Flüe (1417), Johann Geiler von Kaysersberg (1445), Heinrich Bullinger (1504), and Jacob Sprenger (1435). After him are Ulrich of Augsburg (890), Billy Meier (1937), Wiborada (900), Emil Brunner (1889), Saint Othmar (689), and Kurt Koch (1950).

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