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Ignaz Seipel

1876 - 1932

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Ignaz Seipel (19 July 1876 – 2 August 1932) was an Austrian Catholic priest and conservative politician, who served as the Chancellor of the First Austrian Republic twice during the 1920s and leader of the Christian Social Party. He is considered the most prominent statesman of the Austrian right in the interwar period. Born into a modest bourgeois family, Seipel grew up in the town of Meidling, near Vienna, where he completed his studies before enrolling at the University of Vienna. He studied theology and was ordained as a priest in 1899. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ignaz Seipel is the 8,666th most popular politician (down from 8,113th in 2019), the 487th most popular biography from Austria (down from 477th in 2019) and the 145th most popular Austrian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Ignaz Seipel ranks 8,666 out of 19,576Before him are Louis IX, Duke of Bavaria, Henry XVI, Duke of Bavaria, Ion I. C. Brătianu, Prudente de Morais, Duke John Albert of Mecklenburg, and Shantanu. After him are Fritz Fischer, Galeazzo I Visconti, Lubomír Štrougal, Zhang Wentian, Urbano Rattazzi, and Edmund Heines.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1876, Ignaz Seipel ranks 83Before him are Franz Schlegelberger, Henri Winkelman, Friedrich Traun, Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay, Ivane Javakhishvili, and Vladimir Nazor. After him are Claude Farrère, Raymond Duchamp-Villon, Agustín Pedro Justo, Gertrud von Le Fort, Eglantyne Jebb, and Ferdynand Antoni Ossendowski. Among people deceased in 1932, Ignaz Seipel ranks 52Before him are John Philip Sousa, Louis Anquetin, Patrick Geddes, Ovide Decroly, Pēteris Stučka, and Paolo Boselli. After him are Florenz Ziegfeld Jr., Rudolf Bauer, Emil Orlík, Kenneth Grahame, Paul Neumann, and Hovannes Adamian.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Ignaz Seipel ranks 487 out of 1,424Before him are Hermann Nitsch (1938), Konstantin Jireček (1854), Franz Klammer (1953), Eva Schloss (1929), Brian Laudrup (1969), and Margaret of Austria, Electress of Saxony (1416). After him are Ferdinand Fellner (1847), Erich Probst (1927), Viktor Schauberger (1885), Prince René of Bourbon-Parma (1894), Maria von Trapp (1905), and Petar Brzica (1917).

Among POLITICIANS In Austria

Among politicians born in Austria, Ignaz Seipel ranks 145Before him are Ivan Šubašić (1892), Karl Nehammer (1972), Avgustyn Voloshyn (1874), Elisabeth of Austria, Duchess of Lorraine (1285), Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1822), and Konstantin Jireček (1854). After him are Prince René of Bourbon-Parma (1894), Petar Brzica (1917), Leopold Figl (1902), Otto Wächter (1901), Julius Raab (1891), and Archduke Wilhelm Franz of Austria (1827).