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Joseph Calasanz

1556 - 1648

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Joseph Calasanz (Spanish: José de Calasanz; Italian: Giuseppe Calasanzio; September 11, 1557 – August 25, 1648), also known as Joseph Calasanctius and Iosephus a Matre Dei, was a Spanish Catholic priest, educator and the founder of the Pious Schools, which provided free education to poor boys. For this purpose he founded the religious order that ran them, commonly known as the Piarists. He became a close friend of the renowned astronomer Galileo Galilei. Joseph is honored as a saint by the Catholic Church, following his 1767 papal canonization. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Joseph Calasanz is the 181st most popular physician (down from 154th in 2019), the 381st most popular biography from Spain (down from 333rd in 2019) and the 5th most popular Spanish Physician.

Joseph Calasanz is most famous for being the founder of the Society of Jesus, a Catholic religious order.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Joseph Calasanz ranks 181 out of 726. Before him are Bernardo Houssay, Friedrich Miescher, Robert Knox, August von Wassermann, Engelbert Kaempfer, and Michael Stuart Brown. After him are David H. Hubel, Nicolaes Tulp, Adolf Eugen Fick, Ludwig Guttmann, Charles Brenton Huggins, and Psusennes II.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1556, Joseph Calasanz ranks 4. Before him are Anne Hathaway, Carlo Maderno, and Sophia Brahe. After him are Adriaen de Vries, Paul Bril, Otto van Veen, Jan Joosten van Lodensteijn, Uesugi Kagekatsu, Jeanne de Lestonnac, Jerzy Radziwiłł, and Tōdō Takatora. Among people deceased in 1648, Joseph Calasanz ranks 7. Before him are Ibrahim of the Ottoman Empire, Christian IV of Denmark, Władysław IV Vasa, Marin Mersenne, Tirso de Molina, and George I Rákóczi. After him are Claudia de' Medici, Claude Françoise de Lorraine, Countess Catharina Belgica of Nassau, Qin Liangyu, Vincent Voiture, and Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury.

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In Spain

Among people born in Spain, Joseph Calasanz ranks 381 out of 3,355. Before him are Gonzalo Pizarro (1510), Gérard Encausse (1865), Antipope Clement VIII (1370), David Villa (1981), Martín Alonso Pinzón (1441), and Luis Ramírez de Lucena (1475). After him are Maria of Castile, Queen of Aragon (1401), Ramiro I of Asturias (790), Thérésa Tallien (1773), Bernardino de Sahagún (1499), Joanot Martorell (1415), and Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba (1453).

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Among PHYSICIANS In Spain

Among physicians born in Spain, Joseph Calasanz ranks 5. Before him are Michael Servetus (1509), Al-Zahrawi (936), Ibn Zuhr (1091), and Severo Ochoa (1905). After him are Leander of Seville (534), Hasdai ibn Shaprut (910), Petrus Alphonsi (1062), Nicolás Monardes (1508), Gregorio Marañón (1887), Concepción Aleixandre (1862), and Fernando Quiroga Palacios (1900).

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