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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 Spanish language. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alfonso Reyes has received more than 126,522 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Alfonso Reyes is the 954th most popular philosopher (down from 906th in 2019), the 165th most popular biography from Mexico (down from 149th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Mexican Philosopher.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Alfonso Reyes ranks 954 out of 1,081Before him are Daniel Bensaïd, David of Dinant, Camillo Berneri, Wilfrid Sellars, Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, and Clémence Royer. After him are Dominicus Gundissalinus, Phaenias of Eresus, Susan George, Heymann Steinthal, Dimitri Kitsikis, and Stanisław Staszic.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1889, Alfonso Reyes ranks 161Before him are Joseph Laniel, Zofia Zamenhof, Elmo Lincoln, Laureano Gómez, Nathan Altman, and Robert Z. Leonard. After him are Hulusi Behçet, Otto Tief, Jean-Baptiste Janssens, Gottfried Fuchs, Arthur Waley, and Julius Skutnabb. Among people deceased in 1959, Alfonso Reyes ranks 98Before him are Phetsarath Ratanavongsa, Ragnar Nurkse, Ernst Fast, Edmund Ironside, 1st Baron Ironside, Benjamin Christensen, and Carlos Viegas Gago Coutinho. After him are Ion Gigurtu, Galaktion Tabidze, Kazimierz Bein, Irving Cummings, Vincent Richards, and Giuseppe Bottai.

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In Mexico

Among people born in Mexico, Alfonso Reyes ranks 165 out of 585Before him are Don Miguel Ruiz (1952), José María Iglesias (1823), Norberto Rivera Carrera (1942), José Joaquín de Herrera (1792), Mariano Azuela (1873), and Eugenio Derbez (1961). After him are Miguel Pro (1891), Cesar Millan (1969), Rafael Márquez (1979), Leona Vicario (1789), Javier Hernández (1988), and Amado Nervo (1870).

Among PHILOSOPHERS In Mexico

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