RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Alexander Schmorell

1917 - 1943

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Alexander Schmorell (16 September [O.S. 3 September] 1917 – 13 July 1943), also sometimes referred to as Saint Alexander of Munich, was a Russian-German student at Munich University who, with five others, formed a resistance group (part of the Widerstand) known as White Rose (German: Weiße Rose) which was active against the Nazi German regime from June 1942 to February 1943. In 2012, he was glorified as a saint and passion bearer by the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia, and is venerated by Orthodox Christians throughout the world. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Alexander Schmorell is the 1,365th most popular religious figure (down from 1,092nd in 2019), the 615th most popular biography from Russia (down from 533rd in 2019) and the 17th most popular Russian Religious Figure.

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Alexander Schmorell ranks 1,365 out of 3,187. Before him are Leonard of Port Maurice, Angelus of Jerusalem, Procopius of Scythopolis, Daniel the Stylite, Hudhayfah ibn al-Yaman, and Jean Calas. After him are Cristóbal López Romero, Manuel Monteiro de Castro, François de la Chaise, Thomas Christopher Collins, Johannes Oecolampadius, and Meletius IV of Constantinople.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1917, Alexander Schmorell ranks 98. Before him are Atle Selberg, Roque Máspoli, Harold Garfinkel, Luis Carniglia, Irving Penn, and Jânio Quadros. After him are Will Eisner, Stéphane Hessel, William H. McNeill, Jean Rouch, Raymond Burr, and László Szabó. Among people deceased in 1943, Alexander Schmorell ranks 62. Before him are Kurt von Hammerstein-Equord, Franz Jägerstätter, Conrad Veidt, Nicholas J. Spykman, R. G. Collingwood, and Kurt Huber. After him are Czesława Kwoka, Christoph Probst, John Harvey Kellogg, Lepa Radić, Takeda Sōkaku, and Ernst Linder.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Alexander Schmorell ranks 615 out of 3,761. Before him are Prince Christopher of Greece and Denmark (1888), Vladimir Fock (1898), Mikhail Dolivo-Dobrovolsky (1862), Rodion Shchedrin (1932), Veruschka von Lehndorff (1939), and Yevgeni Ivanovich Alekseyev (1843). After him are Valerian Kuybyshev (1888), Grigory Margulis (1946), Agrippina Vaganova (1879), Sergei Ivanov (1953), Vladislav Tretiak (1952), and Dietrich von Saucken (1892).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In Russia

Among religious figures born in Russia, Alexander Schmorell ranks 17. Before him are Basil Fool for Christ (1468), Aleksandr Akimov (1953), Maria Alexandrovna Ulyanova (1835), Nicholas of Japan (1836), Xenia of Saint Petersburg (1719), and Patriarch Tikhon of Moscow (1865). After him are Tode Mongke (1282), Stephen of Perm (1340), Anna Vyrubova (1884), Hyacinth (1777), Abdurreshid Ibrahim (1857), and Patriarch Job of Moscow (1525).

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