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Anneliese Michel

1952 - 1976

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Anna Elisabeth "Anneliese" Michel (21 September 1952 – 1 July 1976) was a German woman who underwent 67 Catholic exorcism rites during the year before her death. She died of malnutrition, for which her parents and the priest who performed the exorcism were convicted of negligent homicide. She was diagnosed with epileptic psychosis (temporal lobe epilepsy) and manic depression (bipolar disorder), and had a history of psychiatric treatment that proved ineffective. When Michel was 16, she experienced a seizure and was diagnosed with psychosis caused by temporal lobe epilepsy. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Anneliese Michel is the 78th most popular social activist (up from 98th in 2019), the 637th most popular biography from Germany (up from 723rd in 2019) and the 7th most popular German Social Activist.

Anneliese Michel was a German woman who was believed to be possessed by demons. She underwent exorcism rites for over 10 years.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Anneliese Michel ranks 78 out of 840. Before her are Yun Chi-ho, Horst Wessel, Babak Khorramdin, Gunnar Sønsteby, Camilo Cienfuegos, and Aleksandr Ulyanov. After her are Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, Martin Niemöller, Liu Xiaobo, Jenny von Westphalen, Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, and Buenaventura Durruti.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1952, Anneliese Michel ranks 33. Before her are Isabella Rossellini, Bell hooks, Jeff Goldblum, Hun Sen, Merrick Garland, and Sammo Hung. After her are Gary Moore, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Larry Fink, Péter Erdő, Oleg Blokhin, and Jacques Audiard. Among people deceased in 1976, Anneliese Michel ranks 30. Before her are Joachim Peiper, Ulrike Meinhof, J. Paul Getty, Gustav Heinemann, Raymond Queneau, and Alexander Calder. After her are Zhu De, Rudolf Bultmann, Choe Yong-gon, Juscelino Kubitschek, Émile Benveniste, and George Whipple.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Anneliese Michel ranks 637 out of 7,253. Before her are Walter Baade (1893), Adolf Galland (1912), Klaus Mann (1906), Helmut Newton (1920), Hans Jonas (1903), and Wilhelm Mohnke (1911). After her are Gabriele Münter (1877), Kurt Student (1890), Rudolf von Jhering (1818), Hans von Bülow (1830), Walther Rathenau (1867), and Aby Warburg (1866).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In Germany

Among social activists born in Germany, Anneliese Michel ranks 7. Before her are Claus von Stauffenberg (1907), Sophia of Prussia (1870), Thomas Müntzer (1489), Sophie Scholl (1921), Carl von Ossietzky (1889), and Horst Wessel (1907). After her are Martin Niemöller (1892), Jenny von Westphalen (1814), Widukind (755), Hans Scholl (1918), Marianne Bachmeier (1950), and Alfred Naujocks (1911).

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