RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Jan Łaski

1499 - 1560

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Jan Łaski or Johannes à Lasco (1499 – 8 January 1560) was a Polish Calvinist reformer. Owing to his influential work in England (1548–1553) during the English Reformation, he is known to the English-speaking world by the Anglicised form John à Lasco (or less commonly, John Laski). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jan Łaski is the 2,051st most popular religious figure (down from 1,652nd in 2019), the 650th most popular biography from Poland (down from 554th in 2019) and the 29th most popular Polish Religious Figure.

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Jan Łaski ranks 2,051 out of 3,187. Before him are Sigitas Tamkevičius, Angelo Dundee, Prosper Guéranger, Henri Langlois, Jan Sarkander, and Maria Giuseppa Robucci. After him are Guido Marini, James of Portugal, Peter Doi, Saint Telemachus, Joseph Butler, and Audomar.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1499, Jan Łaski ranks 17. Before him are Claude Garamond, Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo, Maria Salviati, Michiel Coxie, Garcia de Orta, and Sebastian Franck. After him are Polidoro da Caravaggio, Gjon Buzuku, Laurentius Petri, Peter Martyr Vermigli, Johannes Brenz, and Lempira. Among people deceased in 1560, Jan Łaski ranks 16. Before him are Stańczyk, Domingo de Soto, Melchor Cano, Jean du Bellay, Jan Mandijn, and Philip I, Duke of Pomerania. After him are Nicolas Gombert, Amy Robsart, and Wacław of Szamotuły.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Jan Łaski ranks 650 out of 1,694. Before him are Abraham Robinson (1918), Leszek Miller (1946), Yehuda Ashlag (1886), Szymon Marciniak (1981), Jan Sarkander (1576), and Johannes Thiele (1860). After him are Hanna Suchocka (1946), Hans Stuck (1900), Kurt Sanderling (1912), Władysław Żmuda (1954), Emil Leon Post (1897), and Tadeusz Kutrzeba (1885).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In Poland

Among religious figures born in Poland, Jan Łaski ranks 29. Before him are Andrew Bobola (1591), Caspar Schwenckfeld (1490), Moses Isserles (1520), Kazimierz Nycz (1950), Stanislaus Hosius (1504), and Jan Sarkander (1576). After him are Józef Glemp (1929), August Hlond (1881), Wincenty Kadłubek (1150), Zenon Grocholewski (1939), Aleksander Kakowski (1862), and Dorothea of Montau (1347).

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