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Gérard Encausse

1865 - 1916

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Gérard Anaclet Vincent Encausse (13 July 1865 – 25 October 1916), whose esoteric pseudonyms were Papus and Tau Vincent, was a French physician, hypnotist, and popularizer of occultism, who founded the modern Martinist Order. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Gérard Encausse is the 19th most popular occultist (down from 15th in 2019), the 376th most popular biography from Spain (down from 312th in 2019) and the most popular Spanish Occultist.

Gérard Encausse is most famous for being the first person to climb Mount Everest without oxygen.

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Among OCCULTISTS

Among occultists, Gérard Encausse ranks 19 out of 41. Before him are Edgar Cayce, Joachim of Fiore, A. E. Waite, Manly P. Hall, Tituba, and Edward Kelley. After him are Guido von List, Erik Jan Hanussen, Józef Maria Hoene-Wroński, Robert Fludd, Elias Ashmole, and Louis Claude de Saint-Martin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1865, Gérard Encausse ranks 39. Before him are Gabriel Narutowicz, Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe, Charles Proteus Steinmetz, Rashid Rida, Mikao Usui, and Prince Eugen, Duke of Närke. After him are L'Inconnue de la Seine, Duan Qirui, Ernst Troeltsch, Nikola Zhekov, Valentin Serov, and Frederick Cook. Among people deceased in 1916, Gérard Encausse ranks 40. Before him are Nedeljko Čabrinović, Colmar Freiherr von der Goltz, Rubén Darío, Gaston Maspero, Victoriano Huerta, and Jean Webster. After him are Hugo Münsterberg, Julius Fučík, Pierre Duhem, Théodule-Armand Ribot, Oskar Backlund, and Hans Richter.

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In Spain

Among people born in Spain, Gérard Encausse ranks 376 out of 3,355. Before him are Juana Enríquez (1425), Yusuf I of Granada (1318), Juan Negrín (1892), Fernando Torres (1984), Ferdinand Columbus (1488), and Gonzalo Pizarro (1510). After him are Antipope Clement VIII (1370), David Villa (1981), Martín Alonso Pinzón (1441), Luis Ramírez de Lucena (1475), Joseph Calasanz (1556), and Maria of Castile, Queen of Aragon (1401).

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Among OCCULTISTS In Spain

Among occultists born in Spain, Gérard Encausse ranks 1. 

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