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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 was 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 151,232 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Joseph Calasanz is the 190th most popular physician (down from 166th in 2019), the 393rd most popular biography from Spain (down from 384th 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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  • 28

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.09

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.34

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Joseph Calasanz ranks 190 out of 502. Before him are Pietro Andrea Mattioli, Ernst-Günther Schenck, August von Wassermann, Ibn Zuhr, Sebastian Kneipp, and Asclepiades of Bithynia. After him are Ernst-Robert Grawitz, Howard Florey, Severo Ochoa, George Whipple, Hans Sloane, and Marcel Petiot.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1556, Joseph Calasanz ranks 4. Before him are Anne Hathaway, Carlo Maderno, and Sophia Brahe. After him are Otto van Veen, Adriaen de Vries, Abdul Rahim Khan-I-Khana, Uesugi Kagekatsu, Paul Bril, Jerzy Radziwiłł, Philipp Nicolai, and Isaac Oliver. Among people deceased in 1648, Joseph Calasanz ranks 7. Before him are Ibrahim of the Ottoman Empire, Władysław IV Vasa, Christian IV of Denmark, Marin Mersenne, Tirso de Molina, and Claudia de' Medici. After him are George I Rákóczi, Claude Françoise de Lorraine, Vincent Voiture, Countess Catharina Belgica of Nassau, Caspar Barlaeus, and Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury.

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In Spain

Among people born in Spain, Joseph Calasanz ranks 393 out of 2,932. Before him are Ordoño II of León (873), Mercedes of Orléans (1860), Joan of Navarre, Queen of England (1368), Infante Francisco de Paula, Duke of Cádiz (1794), Rafael del Riego (1784), and Miguel López de Legazpi (1502). After him are Pompeu Fabra (1868), Peter Claver (1581), Carmen Franco, 1st Duchess of Franco (1926), García II of Galicia (1042), Theudis (470), and Chindasuinth (563).

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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), Leander of Seville (534), Hasdai ibn Shaprut (910), Nicolás Monardes (1508), Gregorio Marañón (1887), Fernando Quiroga Palacios (1900), Fidel Pagés (1886), and Teresa Forcades (1966).

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