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OCCULTIST

Joséphin Péladan

1858 - 1918

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Joséphin Péladan (28 March 1858 – 27 June 1918) was a French novelist and Rosicrucian who later briefly joined the Martinist order led by Papus (Gérard Encausse). His father was a journalist who had written on prophecies, and professed an esoteric-aesthetic form of Rosicrucianism and universalist Catholicism. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Joséphin Péladan has received more than 139,736 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Joséphin Péladan is the 28th most popular occultist (up from 31st in 2019), the 2,090th most popular biography from France (up from 2,363rd in 2019) and the 5th most popular French Occultist.

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Among OCCULTISTS

Among occultists, Joséphin Péladan ranks 28 out of 37. Before him are Józef Maria Hoene-Wroński, Robert Fludd, Franz Bardon, Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers, Nina Kulagina, and Michael Scot. After him are Algernon Blackwood, Stanislas de Guaita, A. E. Waite, Elias Ashmole, Dion Fortune, and Otto Witte.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1858, Joséphin Péladan ranks 53. Before him are Countess Marie Larisch von Moennich, Remy de Gourmont, Wolfgang Kapp, Ye Wanyong, Roland Bonaparte, and Ethel Smyth. After him are Caran d'Ache, Maximilien Luce, Bonar Law, Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko, Archibald Gracie IV, and William Henry Pickering. Among people deceased in 1918, Joséphin Péladan ranks 66. Before him are August Oetker, Prince Erik, Duke of Västmanland, Hermann von Eichhorn, Michel Zevaco, Yevno Azef, and Christian Otto Mohr. After him are Moisei Uritsky, Raymond Duchamp-Villon, Olga Rozanova, Sidónio Pais, Prince John Konstantinovich of Russia, and Fritz von Below.

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In France

Among people born in France, Joséphin Péladan ranks 2,090 out of 6,011. Before him are Samir Nasri (1987), Carolus-Duran (1837), Jean Picard (1620), Henry of Flanders (1174), François Georges-Picot (1870), and Jacques Copeau (1879). After him are Bernard-René Jourdan de Launay (1740), Jacques-Charles Dupont de l'Eure (1767), Louis-Léopold Boilly (1761), Jean François Paul de Gondi (1613), Catherine Henriette de Balzac d'Entragues (1579), and Pierre Fournier (1906).

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Among OCCULTISTS In France

Among occultists born in France, Joséphin Péladan ranks 5. Before him are Nostradamus (1503), Allan Kardec (1804), Éliphas Lévi (1810), and Louis Claude de Saint-Martin (1743). After him are Stanislas de Guaita (1861).

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