OCCULTIST

Nostradamus

1503 - 1566

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Michel de Nostredame (December 1503 – July 1566), usually Latinised as Nostradamus, was a French astrologer, apothecary, physician, and reputed seer, who is best known for his book Les Prophéties (published in 1555), a collection of 942 poetic quatrains allegedly predicting future events. Nostradamus's father's family had originally been Jewish, but had converted to Catholic Christianity a generation before Nostradamus was born. He studied at the University of Avignon, but was forced to leave after just over a year when the university closed due to an outbreak of the plague. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Nostradamus has received more than 12,926,426 page views. His biography is available in 101 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 96 in 2019). Nostradamus is the most popular occultist, the 29th most popular biography from France (down from 14th in 2019) and the most popular French Occultist.

Nostradamus is most famous for predicting the future.

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Among OCCULTISTS

Among occultists, Nostradamus ranks 1 out of 41. After him are Grigori Rasputin, John Dee, Baba Vanga, Helena Blavatsky, Aleister Crowley, Count of St. Germain, Alessandro Cagliostro, Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, Allan Kardec, Éliphas Lévi, and Joachim of Fiore.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1503, Nostradamus ranks 1. After him are Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor, Bronzino, Isabella of Portugal, Parmigianino, Christian III of Denmark, Henry II of Navarre, Anne of Bohemia and Hungary, John Frederick I, Elector of Saxony, Pier Luigi Farnese, Duke of Parma, Gerolama Orsini, and Robert Estienne. Among people deceased in 1566, Nostradamus ranks 2. Before him is Suleiman the Magnificent. After him are Bartolomé de las Casas, Diane de Poitiers, Nikola IV Zrinski, Daniele da Volterra, Leonhart Fuchs, Louise Labé, Antonio de Cabezón, Sigismund von Herberstein, Margaret Paleologa, and Jan Sanders van Hemessen.

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In France

Among people born in France, Nostradamus ranks 29 out of 6,770. Before him are Brigitte Bardot (1934), Napoleon II (1811), Auguste Comte (1798), Antoine Lavoisier (1743), Denis Diderot (1713), and Giuseppe Garibaldi (1807). After him are Napoleon III (1808), Édith Piaf (1915), Paul Gauguin (1848), Émile Durkheim (1858), Alexandre Dumas (1802), and Charles Baudelaire (1821).

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Among OCCULTISTS In France

Among occultists born in France, Nostradamus ranks 1. After him are Allan Kardec (1804), Éliphas Lévi (1810), Louis Claude de Saint-Martin (1743), Stanislas de Guaita (1861), and Joséphin Péladan (1858).

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