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Titus Brandsma

1881 - 1942

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Titus Brandsma (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈtityz ˈbrɑntsmaː]; born Anno Sjoerd Brandsma; 23 February 1881 – 26 July 1942) was a Dutch Carmelite priest and a professor of philosophy. Brandsma was vehemently opposed to Nazi ideology and spoke out against it many times before World War II. He was imprisoned at the Dachau concentration camp, where he was murdered in 1942. Brandsma was beatified by the Catholic Church in November 1985 as a martyr of the faith and canonized as a saint on 15 May 2022 by Pope Francis. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Titus Brandsma is the 322nd most popular physician (down from 304th in 2019), the 338th most popular biography from Netherlands (up from 348th in 2019) and the 11th most popular Dutch Physician.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Titus Brandsma ranks 322 out of 726. Before him are Édouard Séguin, Alessandro Achillini, Joseph Škoda, Ernst Gräfenberg, Jean-Baptiste Denys, and Tomáš Špidlík. After him are Marcus Elieser Bloch, Vincenz Priessnitz, Leon Pinsker, Gerard van Swieten, Shinya Yamanaka, and Sigmund Rascher.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1881, Titus Brandsma ranks 84. Before him are Tommy Burns, Adolfo de la Huerta, Hans Wilsdorf, Hermann Ehrhardt, Albert Gleizes, and Ernst Gräfenberg. After him are Wilhelm Lehmbruck, Väinö Tanner, Eugène Schueller, Juliusz Rómmel, Octavian Goga, and Adolf Meyer. Among people deceased in 1942, Titus Brandsma ranks 86. Before him are Henk Sneevliet, Princess Alexandra of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Alexander Belyaev, Georges Politzer, Alois Eliáš, and Walther von Lüttwitz. After him are Lidia Zamenhof, Valdemar Poulsen, Vera Figner, Walter Sickert, Cesare Mori, and István Horthy.

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In Netherlands

Among people born in Netherlands, Titus Brandsma ranks 338 out of 1,646. Before him are Ruud Geels (1948), Dirk V, Count of Holland (1053), Joseph Luns (1911), Leonaert Bramer (1596), Gerrit Berckheyde (1638), and Hendrik Petrus Berlage (1856). After him are Joanna of Bavaria (1356), Antonia Brico (1902), Johanna van Gogh-Bonger (1862), Gerard van Swieten (1700), Princess Carolina of Orange-Nassau (1743), and Hercules Seghers (1589).

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Among PHYSICIANS In Netherlands

Among physicians born in Netherlands, Titus Brandsma ranks 11. Before him are Frederik Ruysch (1638), Johann Weyer (1515), Wim Eijk (1953), Regnier de Graaf (1641), Herman Snellen (1834), and Franciscus Donders (1818). After him are Gerard van Swieten (1700), Aletta Jacobs (1854), Petrus Camper (1722), Theodoor Hendrik van de Velde (1873), Willem Piso (1611), and Willem Johan Kolff (1911).

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