PHILOSOPHER

Alfonso Reyes

1889 - 1959

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Alfonso Reyes Ochoa (17 May 1889 in Monterrey, Nuevo León – 27 December 1959 in Mexico City) was a Mexican writer, philosopher and diplomat. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature five times and has been acclaimed as one of the greatest authors in the Spanish language. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alfonso Reyes has received more than 136,727 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia. Alfonso Reyes is the 1,012th most popular philosopher (down from 954th in 2019), the 179th most popular biography from Mexico (down from 165th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Mexican Philosopher.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.54

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.39

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Alfonso Reyes ranks 1,012 out of 1,267. Before him are Ogyū Sorai, Stanley Cavell, Lon L. Fuller, Androcles, Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, and Heinrich Khunrath. After him are Jacques Cujas, Pierre Lévy, Stanisław Staszic, Zhang Binglin, Northrop Frye, and Friedrich Paulsen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1889, Alfonso Reyes ranks 170. Before him are Louis Van Hege, Dorothy Gibson, James Whale, Marcel Pilet-Golaz, Erich Pommer, and Recep Peker. After him are Amrit Kaur, Zofia Kossak-Szczucka, Jean-Baptiste Janssens, Gottfried Fuchs, Arthur Waley, and Zofia Zamenhof. Among people deceased in 1959, Alfonso Reyes ranks 102. Before him are Aleksandr Khinchin, Charles Vidor, Kazimierz Bein, Edmund Gwenn, Erhard Schmidt, and Galaktion Tabidze. After him are Ernst Fast, Ali-Akbar Dehkhoda, Max Gerson, Carl Enckell, William D. Leahy, and Lipót Fejér.

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In Mexico

Among people born in Mexico, Alfonso Reyes ranks 179 out of 729. Before him are Maite Perroni (1983), Luis Donaldo Colosio (1950), Juan N. Méndez (1820), José Emilio Pacheco (1939), Tomás Balcázar (1931), and Mariano Paredes (1797). After him are Amado Nervo (1870), Luis Hernández (1968), Cesar Millan (1969), Miguel Pro (1891), Diana Bracho (1944), and José María Bocanegra (1787).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Mexico

Among philosophers born in Mexico, Alfonso Reyes ranks 2. Before him are Nezahualcoyotl (1402).

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