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Joseph Calasanz

1556 - 1648

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Joseph Calasanz (Spanish: José de Calasanz; Italian: Giuseppe Calasanzio; September 11, 1557 – August 25, 1648), also known as Joseph Calasanctius and Iosephus a Matre Dei, was a Spanish Catholic priest, educator and the founder of the Pious Schools, which provided free education to poor boys. For this purpose he founded the religious order that ran them, commonly known as the Piarists. He became a close friend of the renowned astronomer Galileo Galilei. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Joseph Calasanz has received more than 166,654 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Joseph Calasanz is the 154th most popular physician (up from 190th in 2019), the 333rd most popular biography from Spain (up from 393rd in 2019) and the 4th most popular Spanish Physician.

Joseph Calasanz is most famous for being the founder of the Society of Jesus, a Catholic religious order.

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  • 66.97

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 31

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.50

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.26

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Joseph Calasanz ranks 154 out of 726. Before him are Johann Joachim Becher, Bernardino of Siena, Albert of Riga, George H. Hitchings, Merit-Ptah, and Francysk Skaryna. After him are Trota of Salerno, James Black, Carl Ludwig, Severo Ochoa, Charles Brenton Huggins, and John Langdon Down.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1556, Joseph Calasanz ranks 4. Before him are Carlo Maderno, Anne Hathaway, and Sophia Brahe. After him are Adriaen de Vries, Otto van Veen, Abdul Rahim Khan-I-Khana, Uesugi Kagekatsu, Jerzy Radziwiłł, Tōdō Takatora, Paul Bril, and Jan Joosten van Lodensteijn. Among people deceased in 1648, Joseph Calasanz ranks 6. Before him are Ibrahim of the Ottoman Empire, Christian IV of Denmark, Władysław IV Vasa, Marin Mersenne, and Tirso de Molina. After him are George I Rákóczi, Claudia de' Medici, Claude Françoise de Lorraine, Qin Liangyu, Vincent Voiture, and Countess Catharina Belgica of Nassau.

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In Spain

Among people born in Spain, Joseph Calasanz ranks 333 out of 3,355. Before him are John of Ávila (1500), Benjamin of Tudela (1130), Juan Antonio Villacañas (1922), Francisco Largo Caballero (1869), Pompeu Fabra (1868), and Ferdinand II of León (1137). After him are Pedro Sánchez (1972), Vicente Blasco Ibáñez (1867), Al-Qurtubi (1214), Benito Pérez Galdós (1843), Peter of Alcantara (1499), and Ernesto Valverde (1964).

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Among PHYSICIANS In Spain

Among physicians born in Spain, Joseph Calasanz ranks 4. Before him are Michael Servetus (1509), Al-Zahrawi (936), and Ibn Zuhr (1091). After him are Severo Ochoa (1905), Hasdai ibn Shaprut (910), Leander of Seville (534), Petrus Alphonsi (1062), Nicolás Monardes (1508), Gregorio Marañón (1887), Concepción Aleixandre (1862), and Fernando Quiroga Palacios (1900).

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