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Hans Gross

1847 - 1915

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Hans Gustav Adolf Gross or Groß (26 December 1847 – 9 December 1915) was an Austrian criminal jurist and criminologist, the "Founding Father" of criminal profiling. A criminal jurist, Gross made a mark as the creator of the field of criminality. Throughout his life, Hans Gross made significant contributions to the realm of scientific criminology. As Gross developed in his career as an examining justice, he noticed the failings of the field of law. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Hans Gross is the 37th most popular lawyer (down from 30th in 2019), the 456th most popular biography from Austria (down from 434th in 2019) and the most popular Austrian Lawyer.

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Among LAWYERS

Among lawyers, Hans Gross ranks 37 out of 136. Before him are Kiki Camarena, Warren Christopher, Ewald Georg von Kleist, John Kerr, Baldus de Ubaldis, and Scooter Libby. After him are Tivadar Soros, Franz von Liszt, Adrian Năstase, Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw, Helmuth James von Moltke, and Qasim Amin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1847, Hans Gross ranks 32. Before him are Nikolay Zhukovsky, Camille Doncieux, Galileo Ferraris, Princess Leopoldina of Brazil, Robert Fuchs, and Sidney Sonnino. After him are Afonso Pena, Nakano Takeko, Ferdinand Fellner, Richard Bowdler Sharpe, Giuseppe Giacosa, and Adolf von Hildebrand. Among people deceased in 1915, Hans Gross ranks 41. Before him are Anna Leonowens, Theodor Leschetizky, I. L. Peretz, Ankō Itosu, James Murray, and Sandford Fleming. After him are Friedrich Loeffler, Carlos Finlay, Anatoly Stessel, Karl Lamprecht, Danilo Ilić, and Akaki Tsereteli.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Hans Gross ranks 456 out of 1,424. Before him are Erich von Tschermak (1871), Otto F. Kernberg (1928), Peter Johann Nepomuk Geiger (1805), Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky (1897), Johann Strauss III (1866), and Annie Fischer (1914). After him are Ivan Šubašić (1892), Gaston Glock (1929), Johann Nestroy (1801), Ernst Rüdiger von Starhemberg (1638), Shlomo Sand (1946), and Oscar Homolka (1898).

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Among LAWYERS In Austria

Among lawyers born in Austria, Hans Gross ranks 1. After him are Franz von Liszt (1851), Hans von Dohnanyi (1902), and Felix Frankfurter (1882).

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