Biographical dossier
Pope Pius IX
Pope Pius IX is classified in the historical people index as RELIGIOUS FIGURE. This dossier preserves the indexed life dates and geographic anchors while explicitly marking what the source does not supply.
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:person:person:wd:Q43720
- Catalogue ID
- person:wd:Q43720
- Wikidata ID
- Q43720
- Occupation class
- RELIGIOUS FIGURE
- Life span
- AD 1792–AD 1878
- Birth anchor
- Senigallia (AD 1792)
- Death anchor
- Apostolic Palace (AD 1878)
- HPI
- 83.46003741157992
Chronological record
The dataset places the life between AD 1792 and AD 1878. These indexed dates are identity and chronology fields, not a substitute for a critical biography.
Geographic anchors
Birth: Senigallia (AD 1792). Death: Apostolic Palace (AD 1878).
Country keys are dataset keys and must not be mistaken for the historical boundaries that existed during the person’s lifetime.
Historical role
The source assigns the broad occupation class RELIGIOUS FIGURE. It does not by itself establish doctrine, sanctity, political legitimacy, responsibility for every event associated with the person, or the exact scope of an office.
Source and identity method
Source: PANTHEON_2_2020. Identity method: pantheon_wikidata_qid. Language-edition measure: 11.562043676978005.
Research questions
- Which primary sources are contemporary with this person?
- Which office, community or institution gives the person historical agency?
- How do later confessional, national or ideological narratives reshape the record?
- Which places on the atlas are genuine life anchors and which are later reception sites?
Phase II — source-led historical deepening
Historical horizon
Pius IX’s long pontificate spans revolution, the loss of the Papal States, the definition of the Immaculate Conception, the Syllabus of Errors and Vatican I. The profile treats doctrinal acts, political governance and reception as related but distinct histories.
Primary-source path
- Ineffabilis Deus
- Quanta cura and Syllabus errorum
- Acts of Vatican I
- Pastor aeternus
- Papal allocutions and diplomatic records
Geography and institutions
Birth anchor: Senigallia; Death anchor: Apostolic Palace The map anchors support navigation, but no point is treated as the whole extent of a ministry, kingdom, journey or later cult.
Connected study paths
This layer expands the catalogue entry without turning later reception into contemporary evidence. Confessional judgements, historical claims and uncertain traditions remain explicitly distinguishable.