Philosopher

Auguste Comte

French philosopher, mathematician and sociologist

1798 - 1857

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His biography is available in 97 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 94 in 2024). Auguste Comte is the 33rd most popular philosopher (down from 27th in 2024), the 31st most popular biography from France (down from 25th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular French Philosopher.

Auguste Comte is most famous for his positivist philosophy, which states that the only true knowledge is scientific knowledge.

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Auguste Comte ranks #31 among 7,658 people in Pantheon born in France, inside the top 1% of that group.

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Auguste Comte's biography appears in 97 language editions of Wikipedia, more than 96% of all Philosophers.

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Among Philosophers

Among philosophers, Auguste Comte ranks 33 out of 1,285. Before him are Seneca the Younger, Epicurus, Averroes, Al-Ghazali, Thomas Hobbes, and Friedrich Engels. After him are Martin Heidegger, Maria Montessori, Parmenides, Søren Kierkegaard, Origen, and Al-Farabi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1798, Auguste Comte ranks 1. After him are Eugène Delacroix, Adam Mickiewicz, Pedro I of Brazil, Jules Michelet, Alexandra Feodorovna, Charles Albert of Sardinia, Giacomo Leopardi, Josiah Warren, Marie-Caroline of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Duchess of Berry, František Palacký, and Mpande kaSenzangakhona. Among people deceased in 1857, Auguste Comte ranks 1. After him are Augustin-Louis Cauchy, Archduchess Sophie of Austria, Carl Czerny, Mikhail Glinka, Dominic Savio, Eugène François Vidocq, Alfred de Musset, Charles Lucien Bonaparte, Eugène Sue, Hinrich Lichtenstein, and Louis-Eugène Cavaignac.

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In France

Among people born in France, Auguste Comte ranks 31 out of 7,658. Before him are Caracalla (188), Édith Piaf (1915), Antoine Lavoisier (1743), Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841), Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor (1122), and Alain Delon (1935). After him are Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1780), Paul Cézanne (1839), Coco Chanel (1883), John Calvin (1509), Louis XIII of France (1601), and Paul Gauguin (1848).

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Among Philosophers In France

Among philosophers born in France, Auguste Comte ranks 3. Before him are René Descartes (1596), and Montesquieu (1689). After him are Michel de Montaigne (1533), Michel Foucault (1926), Henri Bergson (1859), Peter Abelard (1079), Roland Barthes (1915), Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (1809), Jean Bodin (1530), Gilles Deleuze (1925), and Henri de Saint-Simon (1760).

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