RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Solomon Schechter

1847 - 1915

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Solomon Schechter (Hebrew: שניאור זלמן הכהן שכטר‎; 7 December 1847 – 19 November 1915) was a Moldavian-born British-American rabbi, academic scholar and educator, most famous for his roles as founder and President of the United Synagogue of America, President of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, and architect of American Conservative Judaism. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Solomon Schechter has received more than 189,935 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Solomon Schechter is the 2,859th most popular religious figure (down from 2,502nd in 2019), the 445th most popular biography from Romania (down from 392nd in 2019) and the 10th most popular Romanian Religious Figure.

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Solomon Schechter ranks 2,859 out of 3,187Before him are José Tolentino de Mendonça, Juan Guevara, Władysław Rubin, Giacomo Capuzzi, Kolos Ferenc Vaszary, and Jim Elliot. After him are Ibas of Edessa, Sebastian Francis, Æthelwold of Winchester, John Morton, Anthony Soter Fernandez, and Faustus of Mileve.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1847, Solomon Schechter ranks 93Before him are Giacomo Bresadola, Marcel Alexandre Bertrand, František Křižík, Vilma Hugonnai, Lipót Schulhof, and Dimitar Grekov. After him are Wordsworth Donisthorpe, Wilhelmina Drucker, Yegor Ivanovich Zolotarev, Morton Betts, Albert Pinkham Ryder, and Máximo Santos. Among people deceased in 1915, Solomon Schechter ranks 114Before him are George Nares, Nelson W. Aldrich, Antonio Flores Jijón, Lajos Gönczy, Nikolay Umov, and Kolos Ferenc Vaszary. After him are Keir Hardie, Béla Las-Torres, José María Campo Serrano, Charles Walter De Vis, Vasily Goncharov, and W. G. Grace.

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In Romania

Among people born in Romania, Solomon Schechter ranks 445 out of 844Before him are Gusztáv Juhász (1911), Bogdan Lobonț (1978), Dan Coe (1941), Radu Voina (1950), Ștefan Golescu (1809), and Vasile Chiroiu (1910). After him are Nicolae Lupescu (1940), Irina Petrescu (1941), Theodor Rosetti (1837), Emerich Dembrovschi (1945), Victor Ciorbea (1954), and Teodor Meleșcanu (1941).

Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In Romania

Among religious figures born in Romania, Solomon Schechter ranks 10Before him are Lucian Mureșan (1931), Sabbas the Goth (334), Iuliu Hossu (1885), Alexandru Todea (1912), Vilmos Apor (1892), and Lőrinc Schlauch (1824). After him are Andreo Cseh (1895).