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Karl Denke

1860 - 1924

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Karl Denke (11 February 1860 – 22 December 1924) was a German serial killer and cannibal who killed and cannibalized dozens of homeless vagrants and travellers from 1903 to 1924. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Karl Denke has received more than 627,294 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Karl Denke is the 48th most popular extremist (up from 58th in 2019), the 211th most popular biography from Poland (up from 212th in 2019) and the most popular Polish Extremist.

Karl Denke was a German physician who is most famous for his work in the field of occupational medicine. He is credited with inventing the word "hygiene" and with the development of the "Denke Triangle," which is a diagram that illustrates the relationship between the three factors that are involved in disease transmission.

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  • 1.80

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Among EXTREMISTS

Among extremists, Karl Denke ranks 48 out of 283. Before him are Mehmet Ali Ağca, Fritz Haarmann, Gudrun Ensslin, Madame de Brinvilliers, Timothy McVeigh, and George Jung. After him are Pavlik Morozov, Edmund Kemper, Butch Cassidy, Issei Sagawa, Friedrich Jeckeln, and Aileen Wuornos.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1860, Karl Denke ranks 31. Before him are Louis Wain, William Kemmler, Hjalmar Branting, Grand Duchess Anastasia Mikhailovna of Russia, Oda Krohg, and Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovich of Russia. After him are René Lalique, Gyula Andrássy the Younger, Isaac Levitan, Marianne von Werefkin, Vito Volterra, and Mercedes of Orléans. Among people deceased in 1924, Karl Denke ranks 23. Before him are Eleonora Duse, Paul Henri Balluet d'Estournelles de Constant, Alexander Parvus, Giacomo Matteotti, Léon Bakst, and Princess Louise of Belgium. After him are Bogd Khan, Arne Garborg, Paul Natorp, G. Stanley Hall, Teófilo Braga, and Lyubov Popova.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Karl Denke ranks 211 out of 1,694. Before him are B. Traven (1882), Józef Gosławski (1908), Paul Tillich (1886), Heinrich Rickert (1863), Henryk Górecki (1933), and Przemysł II (1257). After him are Stanislaus Kostka (1550), Mordechai Anielewicz (1919), Yisrael Kristal (1903), Wacław Sierpiński (1882), Piast the Wheelwright (800), and Władysław I Herman (1043).

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Among EXTREMISTS In Poland

Among extremists born in Poland, Karl Denke ranks 1. After him are Horst Mahler (1936), Joachim Kroll (1933), and Elisabeth Becker (1923).

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