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RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Wolf Messing

1899 - 1974

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Wolf Grigoryevich (Gershkovich) Messing (Russian: Во́льф Григо́рьевич (Ге́ршикович) Ме́ссинг, Polish: Wolf Grigoriewicz Messing, Hebrew: וולף מסינג‎) (10 September 1899 – 8 November 1974) was a self-proclaimed psychic, telepath and stage hypnotist. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Wolf Messing has received more than 400,884 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Wolf Messing is the 1,311th most popular religious figure (down from 1,235th in 2019), the 409th most popular biography from Poland (up from 426th in 2019) and the 15th most popular Polish Religious Figure.

Memorability Metrics

  • 400k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 55.63

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.64

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.04

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Wolf Messing ranks 1,311 out of 2,238. Before him are Ahijah the Shilonite, Naropa, Eulogius of Córdoba, Oswald of Northumbria, Ilon Wikland, and Amphilochius of Iconium. After him are Theophilus Presbyter, Babylas of Antioch, George Alencherry, Macrina the Younger, Inayat Khan, and Ivo of Chartres.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1899, Wolf Messing ranks 85. Before him are Artur da Costa e Silva, Nikolay Voronov, Akim Tamiroff, Hans Krása, Veit Harlan, and Hans Swarowsky. After him are Lotte Reiniger, Nicolas Frantz, Eugene Ormandy, Wilhelm Röpke, John Barbirolli, and Marcel Dalio. Among people deceased in 1974, Wolf Messing ranks 65. Before him are Konstantin Melnikov, Earl Wilbur Sutherland Jr., Pietro Germi, Pavel Bermondt-Avalov, Junio Valerio Borghese, and Georgios Grivas. After him are Eurico Gaspar Dutra, Anne Sexton, Princess Patricia of Connaught, Aman Andom, Jean Daniélou, and Werner Lorenz.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Wolf Messing ranks 409 out of 1,454. Before him are Heinz Kessler (1920), Hyacinth Graf Strachwitz (1893), Arthur Zimmermann (1864), George Adamski (1891), Avraham Stern (1907), and Ryszard Siwiec (1909). After him are Maria Konopnicka (1842), Włodzimierz Lubański (1947), Emil Krebs (1867), Stefania Wilczyńska (1886), Friedrich Graf von Wrangel (1784), and Zbigniew Preisner (1955).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In Poland

Among religious figures born in Poland, Wolf Messing ranks 15. Before him are Stanislaus Kostka (1550), Stefan Wyszyński (1901), Jerzy Popiełuszko (1947), Hyacinth of Poland (1185), Lubomyr Husar (1933), and Stanisław Dziwisz (1939). After him are Emil Krebs (1867), Moses Isserles (1520), Adam Stefan Sapieha (1867), Andrew Bobola (1591), Jan Sarkander (1576), and Joachim Meisner (1933).

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