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Jan Gotlib Bloch

1836 - 1902

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Jan Gotlib "Bogumił" Bloch (Russian: Иван Станиславович Блиох or Блох; July 24, 1836 – January 7, 1902) was a Polish banker and railway financier who devoted his private life to the study of modern industrial warfare. Born Jewish and a convert to Calvinism, he spent considerable effort to opposing the prevalent antisemitic policies of the Tsarist government in Congress Poland, and was sympathetic to the fledgling Zionist movement. Bloch had studied at the University of Berlin, worked at a Warsaw bank and then moved to St. Petersburg, capital of the Russian Empire (which governed much of the Polish lands at the time). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jan Gotlib Bloch is the 244th most popular social activist (up from 263rd in 2019), the 434th most popular biography from Poland (up from 518th in 2019) and the 9th most popular Polish Social Activist.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Jan Gotlib Bloch ranks 244 out of 840. Before him are Harro Schulze-Boysen, Mohammad Ali Jauhar, Vandana Shiva, Juliana of Stolberg, Al-Shaykh Al-Mufid, and Huber Matos. After him are David Riazanov, Narges Mohammadi, Jean Ziegler, Abba Kovner, Kate Sheppard, and Peter Nguyen Van Hung.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1836, Jan Gotlib Bloch ranks 29. Before him are Kalākaua, Norman Lockyer, Theodor Nöldeke, Henry Campbell-Bannerman, Nikolay Dobrolyubov, and Enomoto Takeaki. After him are Franz von Lenbach, Tekle Giyorgis II, Ding Ruchang, Ronglu, Daniel Peter, and Antônio Carlos Gomes. Among people deceased in 1902, Jan Gotlib Bloch ranks 25. Before him are Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Frederick Abel, Charles Dow, Masaoka Shiki, Jacint Verdaguer, and Julia Grant. After him are Albert Bierstadt, Prudente de Morais, Friedrich Alfred Krupp, Imre Steindl, Sergei Ivanovich Mosin, and Marie Alfred Cornu.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Jan Gotlib Bloch ranks 434 out of 1,694. Before him are Janusz Korwin-Mikke (1942), Hermann von Eichhorn (1848), Karl Gützlaff (1803), Hugo Haase (1863), Eleonore Reuss of Köstritz (1860), and Johann Reinhold Forster (1729). After him are Helene Deutsch (1884), Józef Beck (1894), Countess Palatine Elisabeth Auguste Sofie of Neuburg (1693), Adam Kazimierz Czartoryski (1734), Richard Pipes (1923), and Kuno Fischer (1824).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In Poland

Among social activists born in Poland, Jan Gotlib Bloch ranks 9. Before him are Irena Sendler (1910), Mordechai Anielewicz (1919), Jan Karski (1914), Leopold Trepper (1904), Czesława Kwoka (1943), and Franciszek Gajowniczek (1901). After him are Ryszard Siwiec (1909), Franceska Mann (1917), Danuta Wałęsa (1949), and Ernestine Rose (1810).

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