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 127,939 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia. Valentin Haüy is the 1,070th most popular religious figure (down from 944th in 2019), the 1,687th most popular biography from France (down from 1,426th in 2019) and the 83rd most popular French Religious Figure.

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Valentin Haüy ranks 1,070 out of 3,187. Before him are Margaret of Cortona, Paul of the Cross, Stefan Wyszyński, Yolanda of Poland, Al-Shadhili, and Felix of Cantalice. After him are Shaykh Tusi, Diego de Landa, Euthymius the Great, Jacob Baradaeus, Pope Sisinnius, and Petar I Petrović-Njegoš.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1745, Valentin Haüy ranks 17. Before him are Chevalier de Saint-Georges, Johan Christian Fabricius, Mihrişah Sultan, Shneur Zalman of Liadi, Andrianampoinimerina, and Şahin Giray. After him are Casimir Pulaski, Gregory V of Constantinople, George Atwood, Jens Juel, Ernest II, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg, and Denis Fonvizin. Among people deceased in 1822, Valentin Haüy ranks 13. Before him are Armand-Emmanuel de Vignerot du Plessis, Duc de Richelieu, Albert Casimir, Duke of Teschen, Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre, Giovanni Battista Venturi, Paolo Ruffini, and René Just Haüy. After him are Karl August von Hardenberg, Johann Matthäus Bechstein, Jean-Robert Argand, Sophie de Condorcet, Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh, and Slimane of Morocco.

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In France

Among people born in France, Valentin Haüy ranks 1,687 out of 6,770. Before him are Antoine, Duke of Lorraine (1489), Gustave Garrigou (1884), Charles Koechlin (1867), Henri Farman (1874), Jacques Ellul (1912), and César, Duke of Vendôme (1594). After him are Marie Anne Lenormand (1772), Tristan Corbière (1845), André Courrèges (1923), François Georges-Picot (1870), Jacques Cazotte (1719), and Maurice Trintignant (1917).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In France

Among religious figures born in France, Valentin Haüy ranks 83. Before him are Hugh of Cluny (1024), Caesarius of Arles (470), Thibaud Gaudin (1229), Felix of Valois (1127), William of Gellone (750), and Roger Etchegaray (1922). After him are Abbo of Fleury (945), Jacques de Vitry (1170), Jeanne Guyon (1648), Julian the Hospitaller (700), Raël (1946), and Henri de Lubac (1896).

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