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Zecharias Frankel

1801 - 1875

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Zecharias Frankel (30 September 1801 – 13 February 1875) was a Bohemian-German rabbi and a historian who studied the historical development of Judaism. He was born in Prague and died in Breslau. He was the founder and the most eminent member of the school of positive-historical Judaism, which advocates freedom of research while upholding the authority of traditional Jewish belief and practice. This school of thought was the intellectual progenitor of Conservative Judaism. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Zecharias Frankel is the 2,919th most popular religious figure (down from 2,642nd in 2024), the 707th most popular biography from Czechia (down from 617th in 2019) and the 23rd most popular Czech Religious Figure.

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Zecharias Frankel ranks 2,919 out of 3,187. Before him are Baldassare Reina, Shalim-ahum, Braulio Rodríguez Plaza, Sylvester Graham, Grigory Rodchenkov, and Paul Grégoire. After him are Simona Brambilla, Abu Mohammad al-Adnani, Olympianus of Byzantium, Catherine Booth, Deusdedit of Canterbury, and Bruno Forte.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1801, Zecharias Frankel ranks 81. Before him are Albert Auguste Perdonnet, Jules Pierre Rambur, William Hallowes Miller, Robert J. Walker, Athanasios Vouros, and Charles Combes. After him are George Perkins Marsh, Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury, and Samuel Gridley Howe. Among people deceased in 1875, Zecharias Frankel ranks 78. Before him are José María Ventura Casas, Heinrich Ewald, Henry Kellett, Zsigmond Kemény, Karl Mauch, and John Gardner Wilkinson. After him are Juan Crisóstomo Torrico, Ivan Kuratov, Dragojla Jarnević, Atis Kronvalds, Julián Castro, and Thomas Baines.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Zecharias Frankel ranks 707 out of 1,200. Before him are Vojtěch Bradáč (1913), Jan Kaplický (1937), Josef Němec (1933), Václav Machek (1925), Jiří Weiss (1913), and Jaroslav Skobla (1899). After him are Josef Holeček (1921), Bohuslav Šťastný (1949), Libor Sionko (1977), Věra Růžičková (1928), Radek Štěpánek (1978), and Pavel Černý (1962).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In Czechia

Among religious figures born in Czechia, Zecharias Frankel ranks 23. Before him are Franziskus von Paula Graf von Schönborn (1844), Friedrich Gustav Piffl (1864), Vladimír Holan (1905), John Neumann (1811), Jan Graubner (1948), and Karel Kašpar (1870).

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