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Menachem Mendel Schneersohn

1789 - 1866

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Menachem Mendel Schneersohn (Yiddish: מנחם מענדל שניאורסאהן; September 20, 1789 – March 17, 1866) also known as the Tzemach Tzedek (Hebrew: "Righteous Sprout" or "Righteous Scion") was an Orthodox rabbi, leading 19th-century posek, and the third rebbe (spiritual leader) of the Chabad Lubavitch Hasidic movement. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Menachem Mendel Schneersohn is the 2,178th most popular religious figure (down from 1,801st in 2019), the 97th most popular biography from Belarus (down from 86th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Belarusian Religious Figure.

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Menachem Mendel Schneersohn ranks 2,178 out of 3,187Before him are Burchard of Worms, Ealdred, Charles Journet, Patriarch Pimen I of Moscow, Zenon Grocholewski, and Saint Othmar. After him are Hilary of Arles, Jacques Marquette, Jehoiada, Antonio Marcello Barberini, Yahya ibn Ma'in, and Jason of Thessalonica.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1789, Menachem Mendel Schneersohn ranks 27Before him are John Martin, Joseph, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg, William Cranch Bond, George II, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont, Friedrich Wilhelm Schadow, and Silvio Pellico. After him are Henry Pottinger, Manuel Gómez Pedraza, Charles Rivière-Hérard, Carlos María de Alvear, Auguste Couder, and Richard Bright. Among people deceased in 1866, Menachem Mendel Schneersohn ranks 25Before him are Massimo d'Azeglio, Winfield Scott, Luigi Carlo Farini, Adrien-François Servais, Mikhail Muravyov-Vilensky, and Thuwaini bin Said. After him are John McDouall Stuart, Nadezhda Durova, Jan Kalivoda, Manuel Bulnes, Theodor Kotschy, and Jules Dupuit.

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In Belarus

Among people born in Belarus, Menachem Mendel Schneersohn ranks 97 out of 368Before him are Maksim Bahdanovič (1891), Zivia Lubetkin (1914), Pyotr Klimuk (1942), Itzhak Katzenelson (1886), Myechyslaw Hryb (1938), and Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya (1982). After him are Anatoly Chubais (1955), Zygmunt Florenty Wróblewski (1845), Romuald Klim (1933), Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz (1758), Symeon of Polotsk (1629), and Sergei Tumansky (1901).

Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In Belarus

Among religious figures born in Belarus, Menachem Mendel Schneersohn ranks 2Before him are Vilna Gaon (1720). After him are Michael Rohoza (1540), Kirill of Turov (1130), Chaim Kanievsky (1928), Yisrael Meir Kagan (1838), Tadevuš Kandrusievič (1946), and Jakub Szynkiewicz (1884).