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Oscar Cullmann

1902 - 1999

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Oscar Cullmann (25 February 1902, Strasbourg – 16 January 1999, Chamonix) was a French Lutheran theologian. He is best known for his work in the ecumenical movement and was partly responsible for the establishment of dialogue between the Lutheran and Roman Catholic traditions. Because of his intense ecumenical work, Cullmann's Basel colleague Karl Barth joked with him that his tombstone would bear the inscription "advisor to three popes". Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Oscar Cullmann is the 2,800th most popular writer (down from 2,698th in 2019), the 3,015th most popular biography from France (down from 2,947th in 2019) and the 384th most popular French Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Oscar Cullmann ranks 2,800 out of 7,302Before him are Nicholas Rémy, Branko Radičević, Yury Yakovlev, Isaac Deutscher, John Webster, and Edward Bellamy. After him are Vladimir Sorokin, José Donoso, Tony Robbins, Bekir Çoban-zade, Na Hye-sok, and S. N. Goenka.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1902, Oscar Cullmann ranks 138Before him are Alphonse Matejka, Fritz Machlup, Vasil Mzhavanadze, Józef Maria Bocheński, Zino Francescatti, and Luis Cernuda. After him are Henry Hansen, Gustav Fröhlich, Tallulah Bankhead, Giovanni Colombo, Erik Eriksen, and Hans von Dohnanyi. Among people deceased in 1999, Oscar Cullmann ranks 107Before him are Reiner Klimke, Aldo van Eyck, Morris West, Jean Guitton, Ernest Gold, and Shankar Dayal Sharma. After him are Fritz Fischer, Karekin I, Carlos Romero, Theodore Hall, George Mosse, and Milt Jackson.

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In France

Among people born in France, Oscar Cullmann ranks 3,015 out of 6,770Before him are Pierre Berthier (1782), Salomon, King of Brittany (900), Patrick Battiston (1957), Nicholas Rémy (1530), David Kimhi (1160), and Claude Lefort (1924). After him are Nicolas Lemery (1645), Antoine de Jussieu (1686), Olivier Panis (1966), Jacques Babinet (1794), Alphonse-Marie-Adolphe de Neuville (1836), and Roger Walkowiak (1927).

Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Oscar Cullmann ranks 384Before him are Bonaventure des Périers (1510), Maurice de Guérin (1810), Gustave Kahn (1859), Guillaume Thomas François Raynal (1713), Sextus Pompeius Festus (150), and Nicholas Rémy (1530). After him are Édouard Chavannes (1865), Guiraut Riquier (1230), Jules Vallès (1832), Catulle Mendès (1841), Hilaire Belloc (1870), and Bernard Werber (1961).