RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Wilhelm Emmanuel von Ketteler

1811 - 1877

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Baron Wilhelm Emmanuel von Ketteler (25 December 1811 – 13 July 1877) was a German theologian and politician who served as Bishop of Mainz. His social teachings became influential during the papacy of Leo XIII and his encyclical Rerum novarum. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Wilhelm Emmanuel von Ketteler is the 2,592nd most popular religious figure (down from 2,134th in 2019), the 4,223rd most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,578th in 2019) and the 110th most popular German Religious Figure.

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Wilhelm Emmanuel von Ketteler ranks 2,592 out of 3,187Before him are Agustín García-Gasco Vicente, Mustafa Cerić, Dorothy Stang, Zygmunt Szczęsny Feliński, Yitzhak Kaduri, and Theodotus of Byzantium. After him are Riphath, Michel Aupetit, Mohammad Yunus Khalis, Rubén Salazar Gómez, Philibert of Jumièges, and Abraham of Smolensk.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1811, Wilhelm Emmanuel von Ketteler ranks 59Before him are Georg August Wallin, Mohammad Afzal Khan, James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin, François Delsarte, Dimitrija Demeter, and Johann Georg von Hahn. After him are James Hall, John Neumann, Katarina Ivanović, Judah P. Benjamin, Diomidis Kyriakos, and Hugh Edwin Strickland. Among people deceased in 1877, Wilhelm Emmanuel von Ketteler ranks 52Before him are Duke Eugen of Württemberg, Wilhelm Hofmeister, Johann Carl Fuhlrott, Janko Matúška, Robert Swinhoe, and Georg Adolf Erman. After him are Karel Sabina, Caroline Unger, Juan Bautista Gill, Nathaniel Palmer, Federico Errázuriz Zañartu, and Errico Petrella.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Wilhelm Emmanuel von Ketteler ranks 4,225 out of 7,253Before him are Princess Frederica of Hanover (1848), Helmut Wick (1915), Ruth Westheimer (1928), Robert Spaemann (1927), Mathieu Carrière (1950), and Paul Schmidt (1899). After him are Henriette Herz (1764), Karl-Heinz Körbel (1954), Max Lange (1832), Emanuel Geibel (1815), Karl Georg Christian von Staudt (1798), and Ingrid Gulbin (1943).

Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In Germany

Among religious figures born in Germany, Wilhelm Emmanuel von Ketteler ranks 110Before him are Antje Jackelén (1955), Rupert Mayer (1876), Caspar Olevian (1536), Joseph Höffner (1906), Carl Tanzler (1877), and Bartholomäus Ziegenbalg (1682). After him are Franz Delitzsch (1813), Christian Erich Hermann von Meyer (1801), Nicolaus von Amsdorf (1483), Marianne Cope (1838), Maria Katharina Kasper (1820), and Franziskus von Bettinger (1850).