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Michael Scot

1175 - 1232

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Michael Scot (Latin: Michael Scotus; 1175 – c. 1232) was a Scottish mathematician and scholar in the Middle Ages. He was educated at Oxford and Paris, and worked in Bologna and Toledo, where he learned Arabic. His patron was Frederick II of the Holy Roman Empire and Scot served as science adviser and court astrologer to him. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Michael Scot has received more than 213,679 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia. Michael Scot is the 27th most popular occultist (up from 28th in 2019), the 1,425th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,330th in 2019) and the 8th most popular British Occultist.

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  • 22

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  • 5.21

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  • 2.47

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Among OCCULTISTS

Among occultists, Michael Scot ranks 27 out of 37Before him are Louis Claude de Saint-Martin, Józef Maria Hoene-Wroński, Robert Fludd, Franz Bardon, Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers, and Nina Kulagina. After him are Joséphin Péladan, Algernon Blackwood, Stanislas de Guaita, A. E. Waite, Elias Ashmole, and Dion Fortune.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1175, Michael Scot ranks 14Before him are Yolanda of Flanders, Albert I, Duke of Saxony, Alexander of Hales, Frederick I, Duke of Austria, Roger III of Sicily, and Margaret of Hungary.  Among people deceased in 1232, Michael Scot ranks 4Before him are Tolui, Peire de Montagut, and Rudolf II, Count of Habsburg. After him is Idris al-Ma'mun.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Michael Scot ranks 1,425 out of 7,765Before him are Paul Rodgers (1949), Frederick Delius (1862), Derek Jarman (1942), Malcolm McLaren (1946), Louise d'Orléans (1869), and Greg Lake (1947). After him are Christopher Isherwood (1904), Princess Augusta of Great Britain (1737), Sydney Chaplin (1885), Ælle of Sussex (500), David Purley (1945), and Robert Shaw (1927).

Among OCCULTISTS In United Kingdom

Among occultists born in United Kingdom, Michael Scot ranks 8Before him are Aleister Crowley (1875), Edward Kelley (1555), Charles Webster Leadbeater (1854), Alice Bailey (1880), Robert Fludd (1574), and Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers (1854). After him are Algernon Blackwood (1869), Elias Ashmole (1617), Dion Fortune (1890), and Israel Regardie (1907).