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Karl Denke

1860 - 1924

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Karl Denke (11 February 1860 – 22 December 1924) was a German serial killer and cannibal who killed and cannibalized dozens of homeless vagrants and travellers from 1903 to 1924. He has been nicknamed the Cannibal of Münsterberg and the Forgotten Cannibal. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Karl Denke is the 57th most popular extremist (down from 48th in 2019), the 217th most popular biography from Poland (down from 211th in 2019) and the most popular Polish Extremist.

Karl Denke was a German physician who is most famous for his work in the field of occupational medicine. He is credited with inventing the word "hygiene" and with the development of the "Denke Triangle," which is a diagram that illustrates the relationship between the three factors that are involved in disease transmission.

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Among EXTREMISTS

Among extremists, Karl Denke ranks 57 out of 283. Before him are William Kemmler, Abu Nidal, Mohamed Atta, Butch Cassidy, Pavlik Morozov, and Tex Watson. After him are Friedrich Jeckeln, Gary Gilmore, Dennis Rader, Edmund Kemper, Fritz Haarmann, and Tommaso Buscetta.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1860, Karl Denke ranks 34. Before him are William Kemmler, Vito Volterra, Marianne von Werefkin, Otto Jespersen, Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovich of Russia, and Grand Duchess Anastasia Mikhailovna of Russia. After him are Gustave Charpentier, Paul Ulrich Villard, Mercedes of Orléans, Gyula Andrássy the Younger, Waldemar Haffkine, and Isaac Levitan. Among people deceased in 1924, Karl Denke ranks 26. Before him are Ferdinand Cheval, George Mallory, Léon Bakst, Eleonora Duse, Alexander Parvus, and Giacomo Matteotti. After him are Teófilo Braga, Frank Bunker Gilbreth Sr., Paul Natorp, G. Stanley Hall, Helge von Koch, and Lyubov Popova.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Karl Denke ranks 217 out of 1,694. Before him are Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus (1651), Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff (1788), Magnus Hirschfeld (1868), Stefan Wyszyński (1901), Stanislaus Kostka (1550), and Otto Kretschmer (1912). After him are Paul Tillich (1886), Otto Klemperer (1885), Mykhailo Hrushevsky (1866), Vasily Sokolovsky (1897), Carl Wernicke (1848), and Mieszko II Lambert (990).

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Among EXTREMISTS In Poland

Among extremists born in Poland, Karl Denke ranks 1. After him are Joachim Kroll (1933), Horst Mahler (1936), and Elisabeth Becker (1923).

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