RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Arnold Janssen

1837 - 1909

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Arnold Janssen (5 November 1837 – 15 January 1909), was a German-Dutch Catholic priest and missionary who is venerated as a saint. He founded the Society of the Divine Word, a Catholic missionary religious congregation, also known as the Divine Word Missionaries, as well as two congregations for women. In 1889 he founded in Steyl, Netherlands, the Missionary Sisters Servants of the Holy Spirit and in 1896 at the same place the Holy Spirit Adoration Sisters. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Arnold Janssen is the 1,058th most popular religious figure (up from 1,082nd in 2019), the 1,337th most popular biography from Germany (up from 1,553rd in 2019) and the 35th most popular German Religious Figure.

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Arnold Janssen ranks 1,058 out of 3,187. Before him are Nirmala Joshi, Tatiana of Rome, Saint Susanna, Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle, Ubayy ibn Ka'b, and Thaïs. After him are Thibaud Gaudin, Saint Marcella, Saint Chrysogonus, Gudula, Franz König, and Mary Magdalene de' Pazzi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1837, Arnold Janssen ranks 32. Before him are Queen Cheorin, Rosalía de Castro, Empress Dowager Ci'an, Émile Waldteufel, Francis, Duke of Teck, and Stephanie of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen. After him are Vasily Radlov, Abraham Kuyper, Joseph Bell, Maria Domenica Mazzarello, Virginia Oldoini, Countess of Castiglione, and Pierre Auguste Cot. Among people deceased in 1909, Arnold Janssen ranks 21. Before him are Zinovy Rozhestvensky, Francisco Ferrer, Emil Erlenmeyer, Carlos, Duke of Madrid, Felice Beato, and Princess Maria Teresa of Bourbon-Two Sicilies. After him are Red Cloud, Paul Gachet, Count Kasimir Felix Badeni, Oliver Otis Howard, Simon Newcomb, and Princess Marie of Orléans.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Arnold Janssen ranks 1,337 out of 7,253. Before him are Wilhelm Busch (1832), Dorothea of Saxe-Lauenburg (1511), Guillaume Henri Dufour (1787), Kurt Tucholsky (1890), Wilhelm von Biela (1782), and Sebastian Münster (1488). After him are Walter Röhrl (1947), Gudrun Ensslin (1940), Udo Dirkschneider (1952), Princess Caroline Louise of Hesse-Darmstadt (1723), Heinrich Gustav Magnus (1802), and Til Schweiger (1963).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In Germany

Among religious figures born in Germany, Arnold Janssen ranks 35. Before him are Gotthard of Hildesheim (960), Otto of Bamberg (1060), Karl Theodor Anton Maria von Dalberg (1744), Clemens August Graf von Galen (1878), Rupert of Salzburg (650), and Fidelis of Sigmaringen (1577). After him are Henry of Latvia (1187), Günter Guillaume (1927), Johann Eck (1486), George Müller (1805), Johann Arndt (1555), and Friedrich Wetter (1928).

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