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 168,389 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia. Alexandre Koyré is the 364th most popular philosopher (down from 321st in 2019), the 295th most popular biography from Russia (down from 268th in 2019) and the 7th 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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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Alexandre Koyré ranks 364 out of 1,267. Before him are Macrobius, Wilhelm Windelband, Han Yu, Pompeia Plotina, Nachmanides, and Stilpo. After him are René Girard, Alexandre Kojève, Ban Zhao, John Searle, Nasir Khusraw, and Francis Hutcheson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1892, Alexandre Koyré ranks 46. Before him are Princess Victoria Louise of Prussia, Arthur Friedenreich, Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet, Bolesław Bierut, Władysław Anders, and Richard Neutra. After him are Nikolai Kondratiev, V. Gordon Childe, Mary Pickford, József Mindszenty, E. H. Carr, and Margaret Rutherford. Among people deceased in 1964, Alexandre Koyré ranks 23. Before him are Karl Polanyi, Hans von Euler-Chelpin, Otto Grotewohl, Plaek Phibunsongkhram, Giorgio Morandi, and Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck. After him are Alexander Archipenko, Emilio Aguinaldo, Otto Wille Kuusinen, Ernst Kretschmer, Maurice Thorez, and Prince Pierre, Duke of Valentinois.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Alexandre Koyré ranks 295 out of 3,761. Before him are Alexej von Jawlensky (1864), Vsevolod Meyerhold (1874), Aleksey Kuropatkin (1848), Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna of Russia (1786), Ivan II of Moscow (1326), and Alexander Stepanovich Popov (1859). After him are Anastasia Romanovna (1530), Ilia II of Georgia (1933), Grand Duke George Alexandrovich of Russia (1871), Viktor Shklovsky (1893), Sergei Skripal (1951), and Nikolai Kondratiev (1892).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Russia

Among philosophers born in Russia, Alexandre Koyré ranks 7. Before him are Immanuel Kant (1724), Mikhail Bakunin (1814), Mikhail Bakhtin (1895), Georgi Plekhanov (1856), Vladimir Solovyov (1853), and Johann Georg Hamann (1730). After him are Alexandre Kojève (1902), Ivan Ilyin (1883), P. D. Ouspensky (1878), Yuri Lotman (1922), Sergei Bulgakov (1871), and Johann Christoph Gottsched (1700).

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