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Jonas Furrer

1805 - 1861

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Jonas Furrer (3 March 1805 – 25 July 1861) was a Swiss lawyer and politician who served as member of the Federal Council, from 1848 to 1861, and as the first president of the Swiss Confederation from 1848 to 1849, and again in 1852, 1855 and 1858. He was one of the leading figures in the foundation of Switzerland as a federal state. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jonas Furrer has received more than 77,590 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Jonas Furrer is the 6,661st most popular politician (down from 6,477th in 2019), the 172nd most popular biography from Switzerland (up from 176th in 2019) and the 22nd most popular Swiss Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Jonas Furrer ranks 6,661 out of 15,577Before him are Ed Miliband, Peter II of Bulgaria, Francisco Craveiro Lopes, Laelianus, Princess Henriette of Nassau-Weilburg, and John IV, Duke of Brittany. After him are Oleg Gordievsky, Vukan Nemanjić, Bethuel, Birendra of Nepal, Neferkahor, and Mahinda Rajapaksa.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1805, Jonas Furrer ranks 24Before him are Ewelina Hańska, Shirali Muslimov, Cochise, Thomas Graham, 9th Dalai Lama, and August Bournonville. After him are George Müller, Joseph Škoda, Peter Johann Nepomuk Geiger, Eugène Schneider, Johan Peter Emilius Hartmann, and Wilhelm von Kaulbach. Among people deceased in 1861, Jonas Furrer ranks 22Before him are Ranavalona I, Henri Murger, Lars Levi Laestadius, Tekla Bądarzewska-Baranowska, Infante Carlos, Count of Montemolin, and Heinrich Marschner. After him are Henry Gray, Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire, Teréz Brunszvik, Aleksey Petrovich Yermolov, Henri Mouhot, and Pierre Berthier.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Jonas Furrer ranks 172 out of 876Before him are Rudolf II, Count of Habsburg (1168), Simonetta Sommaruga (1960), Robert Frank (1924), Grock (1880), Hans Martin Sutermeister (1907), and Prince Sixtus of Bourbon-Parma (1886). After him are Pietro Lombardo (1435), Walter H. Schottky (1886), Notker the Stammerer (840), Michel Simon (1895), Umberto Agnelli (1934), and Isaac Casaubon (1559).

Among POLITICIANS In Switzerland

Among politicians born in Switzerland, Jonas Furrer ranks 22Before him are Alois, Hereditary Prince of Liechtenstein (1968), Ueli Maurer (1950), Kurt Huber (1893), Simonetta Sommaruga (1960), Hans Martin Sutermeister (1907), and Prince Sixtus of Bourbon-Parma (1886). After him are Leonardo Conti (1900), Alexander Schallenberg (1969), Duarte Pio, Duke of Braganza (1945), Ruth Dreifuss (1940), Alfred Escher (1819), and Joanna of Pfirt (1300).