OCCULTIST

William Quan Judge

1851 - 1896

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William Quan Judge (April 13, 1851 – March 21, 1896) was an Irish-American mystic, esotericist, and occultist, and one of the founders of the original Theosophical Society. He was born in Dublin, Ireland. When he was 13 years old, his family emigrated to the United States. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of William Quan Judge has received more than 157,187 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. William Quan Judge is the 40th most popular occultist (down from 37th in 2019), the 232nd most popular biography from Ireland (down from 191st in 2019) and the most popular Irish Occultist.

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Among OCCULTISTS

Among occultists, William Quan Judge ranks 40 out of 41Before him are Dion Fortune, Otto Witte, Israel Regardie, Tituba, Manly P. Hall, and Sergey Oldenburg.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1851, William Quan Judge ranks 88Before him are Maksim Kovalevsky, Guillermo Billinghurst, Spiru Haret, William Mitchell Ramsay, Karl Moritz Schumann, and Ekaterine Gabashvili. After him are Rainer Ludwig Claisen, Walter Reed, Manuel Curros Enríquez, Eduardo Acevedo Díaz, Herbert Lawford, and Juan Gualberto González. Among people deceased in 1896, William Quan Judge ranks 79Before him are Theodore Robinson, Adalbert Krueger, Christian Emil Krag-Juel-Vind-Frijs, Ilya Berezin, George Washington Gale Ferris Jr., and Johannes Müller Argoviensis. After him are Narciso Campero, Eugen Baumann, Paul Arène, Coventry Patmore, Thomas Hughes, and James Abbott.

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In Ireland

Among people born in Ireland, William Quan Judge ranks 232 out of 549Before him are Finnian of Clonard (470), Rex Ingram (1892), Philip Pettit (1945), Leo Varadkar (1979), Lena Rice (1866), and Ciarán of Clonmacnoise (516). After him are Garret FitzGerald (1926), Mabel Cahill (1863), Edward Donovan (1768), Richard Bourke, 6th Earl of Mayo (1822), Wolfe Tone (1763), and Stuart Townsend (1972).

Among OCCULTISTS In Ireland

Among occultists born in Ireland, William Quan Judge ranks 1