The Most Famous
PHILOSOPHERS from Ghana
This page contains a list of the greatest Ghanaian Philosophers. The pantheon dataset contains 1,081 Philosophers, 1 of which were born in Ghana. This makes Ghana the birth place of the 74th most number of Philosophers behind Iceland and Peru.
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The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Ghanaian Philosophers of all time. This list of famous Ghanaian Philosophers is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Anton Wilhelm Amo (1703 - 1759)
With an HPI of 54.51, Anton Wilhelm Amo is the most famous Ghanaian Philosopher. His biography has been translated into 18 different languages on wikipedia.
Anton Wilhelm Amo or Anthony William Amo (c. 1703 – c. 1759) was a Nzema philosopher from Axim, Dutch Gold Coast (now Ghana). Amo was a professor at the universities of Halle and Jena in Germany after studying there. He was brought to Germany by the Dutch West India Company in 1707 and was presented as a gift to Dukes Augustus William and Ludwig Rudolf of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, being treated as a member of the family by their father Anthony Ulrich, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel. In 2020, Oxford University Press published a translation (into English) of his Latin works from the early 1730s.
Pantheon has 1 people classified as philosophers born between 1703 and 1703. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased philosophers include Anton Wilhelm Amo. As of April 2022, 1 new philosophers have been added to Pantheon including Anton Wilhelm Amo.
