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PHILOSOPHER

Alexandre Koyré

1892 - 1964

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Alexandre Koyré (, French: [kwaʁe]; born Alexandr Vladimirovich (or Volfovich) Koyra (Russian: Александр Владимирович (Вольфович) Койра); 29 August 1892 – 28 April 1964), also anglicized as Alexander Koyre, was a French philosopher of Russian origin who wrote on the history and philosophy of science. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alexandre Koyré has received more than 159,112 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Alexandre Koyré is the 321st most popular philosopher (up from 394th in 2019), the 269th most popular biography from Russia (up from 334th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Russian Philosopher.

Alexandre Koyré is a historian of science who is most famous for his work on the Scientific Revolution.

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  • 31

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 9.62

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.91

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Alexandre Koyré ranks 321 out of 1,081. Before him are Thrasymachus, Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi, Aenesidemus, Heraclides Ponticus, Jean-Luc Nancy, and Gemistus Pletho. After him are David Strauss, Moritz Schlick, Henri Lefebvre, Mazdak, Ramanuja, and Crates of Thebes.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1892, Alexandre Koyré ranks 42. Before him are Darius Milhaud, Shirō Ishii, Andrey Yeryomenko, Arthur Friedenreich, Corneille Heymans, and Bruno Schulz. After him are Władysław Anders, Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet, Bolesław Bierut, E. H. Carr, Nikolai Kondratiev, and V. Gordon Childe. Among people deceased in 1964, Alexandre Koyré ranks 19. Before him are Karl Polanyi, Frans Eemil Sillanpää, Leo Szilard, Gerrit Rietveld, Giorgio Morandi, and Palmiro Togliatti. After him are Otto Wille Kuusinen, Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck, Otto Grotewohl, Emilio Aguinaldo, Ernst Kretschmer, and Alexander Archipenko.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Alexandre Koyré ranks 269 out of 3,262. Before him are Albert Frederick, Duke of Prussia (1553), Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov (1928), Michel Fokine (1880), Nikolay Przhevalsky (1839), Alexander Yegorov (1883), and Grand Duke George Alexandrovich of Russia (1871). After him are Dmitry Yazov (1924), Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna of Russia (1786), Grand Duke Michael Nikolaevich of Russia (1832), Alexander Stepanovich Popov (1859), Fyodor Tolbukhin (1894), and Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovich of Russia (1860).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Russia

Among philosophers born in Russia, Alexandre Koyré ranks 6. Before him are Immanuel Kant (1724), Mikhail Bakunin (1814), Mikhail Bakhtin (1895), Georgi Plekhanov (1856), and Vladimir Solovyov (1853). After him are Alexandre Kojève (1902), Johann Georg Hamann (1730), Yuri Lotman (1922), Sergei Bulgakov (1871), Ivan Ilyin (1883), and Johann Christoph Gottsched (1700).

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