RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Jean de Brébeuf

1593 - 1649

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Jean de Brébeuf (French: [ʒɑ̃ də bʁe.bœf]) (25 March 1593 – 16 March 1649) was a French Jesuit missionary who travelled to New France (Canada) in 1625. There he worked primarily with the Huron for the rest of his life, except for a few years in France from 1629 to 1633. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jean de Brébeuf has received more than 446,319 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Jean de Brébeuf is the 2,320th most popular religious figure (down from 2,082nd in 2019), the 3,875th most popular biography from France (down from 3,565th in 2019) and the 197th most popular French Religious Figure.

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  • 450k

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  • 50.37

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.72

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.11

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Jean de Brébeuf ranks 2,320 out of 3,187. Before him are Joachim III of Constantinople, Pierre Viret, Kuriakose Elias Chavara, Javier Lozano Barragán, Jaime Lucas Ortega y Alamino, and Crescenzio Sepe. After him are Marie-Eugénie de Jésus, Diego Gelmírez, Edmund Campion, Cesare Orsenigo, Ricardo Ezzati Andrello, and Pedro Páez.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1593, Jean de Brébeuf ranks 15. Before him are Balthasar van der Ast, Catherine de' Medici, Governor of Siena, Anthony van Diemen, George Herbert, William, Margrave of Baden-Baden, and Sultan Agung of Mataram. After him are Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford, Elisabeth of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Duchess of Saxe-Altenburg, and Izaak Walton. Among people deceased in 1649, Jean de Brébeuf ranks 14. Before him are Isaac van Ostade, Gerardus Vossius, Marie of Prussia, Margravine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth, Juan Martínez Montañés, Giulio Alenio, and Vincenzo Carafa. After him are Susanna Hall, Vittoria Farnese, John Winthrop, Elisabeth Magdalena of Pomerania, and Richard Crashaw.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jean de Brébeuf ranks 3,875 out of 6,770. Before him are Paul Cambon (1843), Alain Besançon (1932), Léon-Paul Fargue (1876), Philippe Léotard (1940), Charles Pasqua (1927), and Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan (1933). After him are Pierre Poujade (1920), Paul Taffanel (1844), Marie-Eugénie de Jésus (1817), Michael Vartan (1968), Charles Laval (1862), and Georgette Leblanc (1869).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In France

Among religious figures born in France, Jean de Brébeuf ranks 197. Before him are Marie of the Incarnation (1599), Chlodulf of Metz (null), Philibert of Jumièges (608), Laurent-Joseph-Marius Imbert (1796), François de Laval (1623), and Nicolas Trigault (1577). After him are Marie-Eugénie de Jésus (1817), Peire Cardenal (1180), Ratramnus (800), Jacques Gaillot (1935), Bernard Panafieu (1931), and Maurice Feltin (1883).

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