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Adolph Kolping

1813 - 1865

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Adolph Kolping (8 December 1813 — 4 December 1865) was a German Catholic priest and the founder of the Kolping Association. He led the movement for providing and promoting social support for workers in industrialized cities while also working to promote the dignities of workers in accordance with the social magisterium of the faith. He was called Gesellenvater (the Journeymen's Father). The beatification for the priest commenced on 21 March 1934 and he was later titled as Venerable in 1989. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Adolph Kolping is the 402nd most popular physician (down from 365th in 2019), the 3,004th most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,847th in 2019) and the 66th most popular German Physician.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Adolph Kolping ranks 402 out of 726Before him are Hélène Sparrow, Karl Friedrich Burdach, Ibn Abi Usaibia, Scribonius Largus, Johann Jakob Scheuchzer, and Anders Chydenius. After him are Antoine Louis, Abella, José Gregorio Hernández, Jim Yong Kim, Adrien Proust, and Garcia de Orta.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1813, Adolph Kolping ranks 38Before him are Frédéric Ozanam, Camilla Collett, Pōmare IV, William Smith, Pierre Alphonse Laurent, and Félix Ravaisson-Mollien. After him are Stephen Heller, Jean Stas, Ludwig Leichhardt, Carl Jaenisch, József Eötvös, and Alexander Parkes. Among people deceased in 1865, Adolph Kolping ranks 47Before him are Rafael Carrera, Achille Valenciennes, Joseph Paxton, Robert Remak, Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst, and Isabella Beeton. After him are Friedrich August Stüler, Princess Anna of Hesse and by Rhine, Joseph Lebeau, Léon Jean Marie Dufour, Alexander Dukhnovych, and Charles Lock Eastlake.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Adolph Kolping ranks 3,006 out of 7,253Before him are Stephen, Count Palatine of Simmern-Zweibrücken (1385), Hans Joachim von Zieten (1699), Joseph Clemens of Bavaria (1671), William Louis, Count of Nassau-Dillenburg (1560), Sonja Ziemann (1926), and Eberhard III, Count of Württemberg (1364). After him are Matthias Weckmann (1619), Bernhard I, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen (1649), Erich Neumann (1892), Judith Malina (1926), Alice Schwarzer (1942), and Ludwig Rellstab (1799).

Among PHYSICIANS In Germany

Among physicians born in Germany, Adolph Kolping ranks 66Before him are Gottfried Reinhold Treviranus (1776), Ferdinand Sauerbruch (1875), Willi Graf (1918), Paul Hermann (1646), Johann Lukas Schönlein (1793), and Karl Friedrich Burdach (1776). After him are Justinus Kerner (1786), Ewald Hering (1834), Wilhelm Griesinger (1817), Adolf Kussmaul (1822), Michael Maier (1568), and Wilhelm Kühne (1837).