RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Josef Beran

1888 - 1969

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Josef Beran (29 December 1888 – 17 May 1969) was a Czech Catholic prelate who served as Archbishop of Prague from 1946 until his death. He was elevated to the cardinalate in 1965. Adam Beran was imprisoned in the Dachau concentration camp during World War II after the Nazis had targeted him for "subversive and dangerous" behavior where he almost died in 1943 due to disease. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Josef Beran has received more than 63,512 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Josef Beran is the 1,861st most popular religious figure (down from 1,795th in 2019), the 364th most popular biography from Czechia (down from 361st in 2019) and the 14th most popular Czech Religious Figure.

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  • 53.22

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.63

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.90

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Josef Beran ranks 1,861 out of 3,187. Before him are Gregory Peter XX Ghabroyan, John X of Constantinople, Eleutherius of Byzantium, Abu al-Misk Kafur, Metrophanes of Byzantium, and Anastasios of Albania. After him are Jacques Hamel, Turibius of Mogrovejo, Andronicus of Pannonia, Joktan, Acacius of Constantinople, and Sebastiano Baggio.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1888, Josef Beran ranks 118. Before him are Michał Sopoćko, Karl Pfeffer-Wildenbruch, Lead Belly, Sigfried Giedion, Árpád Szakasits, and Ramón Gómez de la Serna. After him are Archduchess Isabella of Austria, Friedrich Wolf, Hans Graf von Sponeck, Antonio Ascari, Francisco Canaro, and Viktor Kingissepp. Among people deceased in 1969, Josef Beran ranks 106. Before him are Aleksandras Stulginskis, Ismail al-Azhari, Johannes Dieckmann, Nicolas Grunitzky, Maureen Connolly, and Warren Sturgis McCulloch. After him are Angelina Beloff, Ben Shahn, Abdirashid Shermarke, Jan Zajíc, Iskander Mirza, and José María Arguedas.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Josef Beran ranks 364 out of 1,200. Before him are Jiří Raška (1941), Zdeněk Svěrák (1936), Bretislav III (1200), Tom Stoppard (1937), Anne of Bohemia (1290), and Carl Borivoj Presl (1794). After him are Rudolf Beran (1887), Ivan Mládek (1942), Oskar Nedbal (1874), Prince Alfred of Liechtenstein (1842), Elmar Klos (1910), and Johann Georg Christian, Prince of Lobkowicz (1686).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In Czechia

Among religious figures born in Czechia, Josef Beran ranks 14. Before him are Maria Restituta Kafka (1894), Anne of Bohemia, Duchess of Silesia (1204), Miloslav Vlk (1932), Zdislava Berka (1215), Melchior Grodziecki (1584), and Michael Czerny (1946). After him are Gorazd (1879), Procopius of Sázava (970), Vladimír Holan (1905), Jan Graubner (1948), Franziskus von Paula Graf von Schönborn (1844), and John Neumann (1811).

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