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Allan Kardec

1804 - 1869

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Hippolyte Léon Denizard Rivail ([ʁivaj]; 3 October 1804 – 31 March 1869), known by the pen name of Allan Kardec (French: [kaʁdɛk]), was a French educator, translator, and writer. He is the author of the five books known as the Spiritist Codification, and the founder of Spiritism. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Allan Kardec is the 12th most popular occultist (down from 10th in 2019), the 546th most popular biography from France (down from 526th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular French Occultist.

Allan Kardec is most famous for being the founder of Spiritism, a religion that teaches that spirits of the dead communicate with the living.

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Among OCCULTISTS

Among occultists, Allan Kardec ranks 12 out of 41. Before him are Anton LaVey, Helena Blavatsky, Count of St. Germain, Éliphas Lévi, Alessandro Cagliostro, and Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa. After him are Edgar Cayce, Joachim of Fiore, A. E. Waite, Manly P. Hall, Tituba, and Edward Kelley.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1804, Allan Kardec ranks 10. Before him are Wilhelm Eduard Weber, Napoléon Louis Bonaparte, Franklin Pierce, Benjamin Disraeli, Mikhail Glinka, and Emil Lenz. After him are Marie Taglioni, Mongkut, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi, Richard Owen, and Matthias Jakob Schleiden. Among people deceased in 1869, Allan Kardec ranks 5. Before him are Hector Berlioz, Franklin Pierce, Alphonse de Lamartine, and Ghalib. After him are Edwin Stanton, Jan Evangelista Purkyně, Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve, Johann Friedrich Overbeck, Hijikata Toshizō, Thomas Graham, and Antoine-Henri Jomini.

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In France

Among people born in France, Allan Kardec ranks 546 out of 6,770. Before him are Anne Robert Jacques Turgot (1727), Louis Aragon (1897), Jean Lannes (1769), John Vianney (1786), André Frédéric Cournand (1895), and Jacques Monod (1910). After him are Baldwin II of Jerusalem (1060), André Michel Lwoff (1902), Charles, Duke of Orléans (1394), Édouard Mortier, Duke of Trévise (1768), Léon Blum (1872), and Isabelle Huppert (1953).

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Among OCCULTISTS In France

Among occultists born in France, Allan Kardec ranks 3. Before him are Nostradamus (1503), and Éliphas Lévi (1810). After him are Louis Claude de Saint-Martin (1743), Stanislas de Guaita (1861), and Joséphin Péladan (1858).

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