RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Zacharias Ursinus

1534 - 1583

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Zacharias Ursinus (18 July 1534 – 6 May 1583) was a sixteenth-century German Reformed theologian and Protestant reformer, born Zacharias Baer in Breslau (now Wrocław, Poland). He became the leading theologian of the Reformed Protestant movement of the Palatinate, serving both at the University of Heidelberg and the College of Wisdom (Collegium Sapientiae). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Zacharias Ursinus has received more than 68,350 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Zacharias Ursinus is the 2,170th most popular religious figure (down from 2,115th in 2019), the 766th most popular biography from Poland (up from 772nd in 2019) and the 35th most popular Polish Religious Figure.

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  • 18

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  • 2.13

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Zacharias Ursinus ranks 2,170 out of 3,187. Before him are Peter of Bruys, Arnobius the Younger, Maria Bernarda Bütler, Baltazar Enrique Porras Cardozo, Victor and Corona, and Stephen II of Constantinople. After him are Yusuf Estes, Gaetano Bedini, Egbert, Anna Wierzbicka, Velasio de Paolis, and Virgilio Noè.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1534, Zacharias Ursinus ranks 16. Before him are Lautaro, Abtai Sain Khan, Giovanni de' Bardi, Hans Bol, Setthathirath, and Robert Garnier. After him are Fernando de Herrera, Volcher Coiter, and Dirck Barendsz. Among people deceased in 1583, Zacharias Ursinus ranks 16. Before him are Oda Nobutaka, Pirro Ligorio, Andrey Kurbsky, Antoinette de Bourbon, Juan de Garay, and Humphrey Gilbert. After him are Philip II, Landgrave of Hesse-Rheinfels, Jacques Pelletier du Mans, and Thomas Erastus.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Zacharias Ursinus ranks 766 out of 1,694. Before him are Max Weber (1881), Carl Schuricht (1880), Kazimierz Sabbat (1913), Leszek Balcerowicz (1947), Kazimierz Bein (1872), and Mordechai Gebirtig (1877). After him are Anna Wierzbicka (1938), Holger Czukay (1938), Katja Ebstein (1945), Jan Kiepura (1902), Rudolph Maté (1898), and Edward Osóbka-Morawski (1909).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In Poland

Among religious figures born in Poland, Zacharias Ursinus ranks 35. Before him are Dorothea of Montau (1347), Stanislaus Hosius (1504), Hypatius Pociej (1541), Józef Glemp (1929), Wincenty Kadłubek (1150), and Bernhard Lichtenberg (1875). After him are Anna Wierzbicka (1938), Zenon Grocholewski (1939), August Hlond (1881), Sawa (1938), Johann Dzierzon (1811), and Ida Siekmann (1902).

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