The Most Famous
PHILOSOPHERS from Slovakia
This page contains a list of the greatest Slovak Philosophers. The pantheon dataset contains 1,081 Philosophers, 2 of which were born in Slovakia. This makes Slovakia the birth place of the 58th most number of Philosophers behind Nigeria and Azerbaijan.
Top 2
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Slovak Philosophers of all time. This list of famous Slovak Philosophers is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Matthias Bel (1684 - 1749)
With an HPI of 52.76, Matthias Bel is the most famous Slovak Philosopher. His biography has been translated into 17 different languages on wikipedia.
Matthias Bel or Matthias Bél (German: Matthias Bel; Hungarian: Bél Mátyás; Slovak: Matej Bel; Latin: Matthias Belius; 22–24 March(?), 1684 – 29 August 1749) was a Lutheran pastor and polymath from the Kingdom of Hungary. Bel was active in the fields of pedagogy, philosophy, philology, history, and theoretical theology; he was the founder of Hungarian geographic science and a pioneer of descriptive ethnography and economy. A leading figure in pietism. He is also known as the Great Ornament of Hungary (Magnum decus Hungariae).
2. Ernest Nagel (1901 - 1985)
With an HPI of 49.64, Ernest Nagel is the 2nd most famous Slovak Philosopher. His biography has been translated into 22 different languages.
Ernest Nagel (November 16, 1901 – September 20, 1985) was an American philosopher of science. Along with Rudolf Carnap, Hans Reichenbach, and Carl Hempel, he is sometimes seen as one of the major figures of the logical positivist movement. His 1961 book The Structure of Science is considered a foundational work in the logic of scientific explanation.
Pantheon has 2 people classified as philosophers born between 1684 and 1901. Of these 2, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased philosophers include Matthias Bel and Ernest Nagel.
