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RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Valentin Haüy

1745 - 1822

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Valentin Haüy (pronounced [aɥi]; 13 November 1745 – 19 March 1822) was the founder, in 1785, of the first school for the blind, the Institute for Blind Youth in Paris (now Institut National des Jeunes Aveugles, or the National Institute for the Young Blind, INJA). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Valentin Haüy has received more than 120,171 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia. Valentin Haüy is the 952nd most popular religious figure (up from 975th in 2019), the 1,431st most popular biography from France (up from 1,576th in 2019) and the 71st most popular French Religious Figure.

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Valentin Haüy ranks 952 out of 2,238Before him are Jorge Medina, Mariam Baouardy, Ignatios of Constantinople, Sabellius, Merytre-Hatshepsut, and Peter of Verona. After him are Qasim ibn Muhammad, Alexandre José Maria dos Santos, Roger Etchegaray, Agostino Casaroli, William Farel, and Donatus Magnus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1745, Valentin Haüy ranks 11Before him are Maria Luisa of Spain, Archduke Charles Joseph of Austria, Carl Stamitz, Levin August von Bennigsen, Andrianampoinimerina, and Fyodor Ushakov. After him are Johan Christian Fabricius, Johan Gottlieb Gahn, Şahin Giray, Mihrişah Sultan, Casimir Pulaski, and George Atwood. Among people deceased in 1822, Valentin Haüy ranks 11Before him are Ali Pasha of Ioannina, Claude Louis Berthollet, Albert Casimir, Duke of Teschen, Armand-Emmanuel de Vignerot du Plessis, Duc de Richelieu, Giovanni Battista Venturi, and Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre. After him are Paolo Ruffini, René Just Haüy, Johann Matthäus Bechstein, Karl August von Hardenberg, Jean-Robert Argand, and Sophie de Condorcet.

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In France

Among people born in France, Valentin Haüy ranks 1,431 out of 6,011Before him are Piers Gaveston, 1st Earl of Cornwall (1284), Louis-Claude Daquin (1694), Vincent d'Indy (1851), François-Adrien Boieldieu (1775), Elisabeth Therese of Lorraine (1711), and Marie de Rohan (1600). After him are Marie Anne de Mailly (1717), Victorinus (300), Jean-Pierre Blanchard (1753), Laurent Schwartz (1915), Gabriel Bonnot de Mably (1709), and Louis I, Count of Flanders (1304).

Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In France

Among religious figures born in France, Valentin Haüy ranks 71Before him are Philipp Spener (1635), Lothair II of Italy (1000), Pierre Cauchon (1371), Louise de Marillac (1591), Jeanne Guyon (1648), and Humbert of Silva Candida (1000). After him are Roger Etchegaray (1922), William Farel (1489), Sebastian Castellio (1515), Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle (1517), Arnaud Amalric (1160), and John of Matha (1150).