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Louis Claude de Saint-Martin

1743 - 1803

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Louis Claude de Saint-Martin (18 January 1743 – 14 October 1803) was a French philosopher, known as le philosophe inconnu ("the unknown philosopher"), the name under which his works were published. He was an influential Christian mystic whose legacy, together with that of his mentor Martinez de Pasqually, inspired the founding of the Martinist Order. Léonce de Saint-Martin, composer and organist, was a distant relative of Louis-Claude de Saint-Martin. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Louis Claude de Saint-Martin is the 25th most popular occultist (down from 19th in 2019), the 1,749th most popular biography from France (down from 1,562nd in 2019) and the 4th most popular French Occultist.

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Among OCCULTISTS

Among occultists, Louis Claude de Saint-Martin ranks 25 out of 41. Before him are Gérard Encausse, Guido von List, Erik Jan Hanussen, Józef Maria Hoene-Wroński, Robert Fludd, and Elias Ashmole. After him are Nina Kulagina, Alice Bailey, Jörg Lanz von Liebenfels, Stanislas de Guaita, Charles Webster Leadbeater, and Joséphin Péladan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1743, Louis Claude de Saint-Martin ranks 20. Before him are Prince William Henry, Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh, René Just Haüy, Joseph Banks, Gavrila Derzhavin, Edmund Cartwright, and William I, Elector of Hesse. After him are Princess Carolina of Orange-Nassau, Victor Amadeus II, Prince of Carignano, Yekaterina Vorontsova-Dashkova, William Paley, Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Herbst, and Eberhard August Wilhelm von Zimmermann. Among people deceased in 1803, Louis Claude de Saint-Martin ranks 13. Before him are Adélaïde Labille-Guiard, Grand Duchess Elena Pavlovna of Russia, Cardinal de Rohan, Vittorio Alfieri, Ercole III d'Este, Duke of Modena, and Ami Argand. After him are Georg I, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen, Xenia of Saint Petersburg, Samuel Adams, Pōmare I, Nizam Ali Khan, Asaf Jah II, and François Devienne.

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In France

Among people born in France, Louis Claude de Saint-Martin ranks 1,749 out of 6,770. Before him are Jules de Goncourt (1830), Jean Chardin (1643), Adhemar of Le Puy (1055), Jules Bastien-Lepage (1848), François-Henri Pinault (1962), and Jean-Marie Lustiger (1926). After him are William of Gellone (750), Anselme Payen (1795), Xavier de Maistre (1763), Hugh of Châteauneuf (1053), Lambert Wilson (1958), and Jacques Dutronc (1943).

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Among OCCULTISTS In France

Among occultists born in France, Louis Claude de Saint-Martin ranks 4. Before him are Nostradamus (1503), Éliphas Lévi (1810), and Allan Kardec (1804). After him are Stanislas de Guaita (1861), and Joséphin Péladan (1858).

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