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Alexander VIII

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Alexander VIII

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Also known as Pope Alexander VIII, Pietro Vito Ottoboni, Pietro Ottoboni, Alessandro VIII, Alexander VIII. Papst, Petrus Otthobonus, pape Alexandre VIII

pope of the Catholic Church from 1689 to 1691

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Pope Alexander VIII was born in 1610 and died in 1691. He is recognized in the Popes collection. His works include the text "Alexander PP. VIII. ad futuram rei memoriam."

He is associated with the area of Cagliari as a group artist. His writings are referenced by 529 other encyclopedia articles.

Synthesized by Vinony from 13 facts across 6 sources: Wikidata, Open Library, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Vinony collections, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Person · Open Library

Born
1610
Died
1691
Works
4

Top works

  • Decret de notre Saint Père le Pape Alexandre VIII,contre deux thèses oou propositions des Jesuites, dont l'une a été soûtenuë à Pont-à-Mousson, & l'autre à Dijon
  • Alexander PP. VIII. ad futuram rei memoriam
  • The bull of Pope Alexander VIII. Published two days before his death. Annulling all the proceedings of the French clergy, assembled at Paris, 1682
  • The speech of this present pope in presence of the cardinals and foreign ambassadors, in his second conclave after his election to the papacy

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Group
Origin
Cagliari
Active from
2010

Discography

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. STAR: ultrafast universal RNA-seq aligner

    · 2012 · cited 51,063x

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    · 2021 · cited 43,600x

  3. ImageNet Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge

    · 2015 · cited 30,538x

  4. SPAdes: A New Genome Assembly Algorithm and Its Applications to Single-Cell Sequencing

    · 2012 · cited 24,595x

  5. QUANTUM ESPRESSO: a modular and open-source software project for quantum simulations of materials

    · 2009 · cited 22,968x

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Given name
Alexander
Gender
male
Citizenship
Republic of Venice
Place of birth
Venice
Place of death
Rome
Occupation
Catholic bishop
Educated at
University of Padua
Languages spoken
Latin
Religion
Catholic Church
Award
Supreme Order of Christ
Participant in
1655 papal conclave
Image
Portrait of Pope Alexander VIII – Roman School of 17th Century – (unframed).jpg
Work location
Papal States
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place of burial
St. Peter's Basilica
Commons category
Alexander VIII
date of birth
1610-04-22
date of death
1691-02-01
name in native language
Alexander PP. VIII
topic's main category
Category:Pope Alexander VIII
birth name
Pietro Vito Ottoboni
manner of death
natural causes
cause of death
gangrene
consecrator
Clement IX
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Encyclopedic overview

Pope Alexander VIII (Italian: Alessandro VIII; 22 April 1610 – 1 February 1691), born Pietro Vito Ottoboni, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 6 October 1689 to his death in February 1691. He is the most recent pope to take the pontifical name "Alexander".

Alexander VIII is known for having overturned many of the policies of his predecessor, Innocent XI, deciding to indulge in nepotism in order to further enrich his family. Such nepotism exhausted the papal treasury, later forcing his successor, Innocent XII, to implement austere measures to restore the papal coffers. Despite his brief papacy, during which little of importance was undertaken, Alexander VIII is known for having condemned the doctrines of the so-called philosophical sin which was being taught in schools run by the Society of Jesus. Also during his papacy, King Louis XIV of France restored Avignon to the Holy See as a territory of the Papal States.

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