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Amos Bronson Alcott

1799 - 1888

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Amos Bronson Alcott (; November 29, 1799 – March 4, 1888) was an American teacher, writer, philosopher, and reformer. As an educator, Alcott pioneered new ways of interacting with young students, focusing on a conversational style, and avoided traditional punishment. He hoped to perfect the human spirit and, to that end, advocated a plant-based diet. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Amos Bronson Alcott has received more than 672,158 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Amos Bronson Alcott is the 1,114th most popular philosopher (down from 977th in 2019), the 6,368th most popular biography from United States (down from 5,021st in 2019) and the 57th most popular American Philosopher.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Amos Bronson Alcott ranks 1,114 out of 1,267. Before him are Sandra Harding, Clémence Royer, Gómez Pereira, Mario Perniola, Julián Marías, and Boris Parygin. After him are Kaibara Ekken, Ivan Merz, Victor Basch, Luciano Floridi, Władysław Tatarkiewicz, and Walter Burley.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1799, Amos Bronson Alcott ranks 47. Before him are Prince Frederick Augustus of Anhalt-Dessau, Heinrich von Kittlitz, Imre Frivaldszky, David Don, Fyodor Bruni, and Heinrich von Gagern. After him are Frederick Catherwood, William Rutter Dawes, James Prinsep, Edward Belcher, Henry Monnier, and Eliza Acton. Among people deceased in 1888, Amos Bronson Alcott ranks 71. Before him are Carl Christian Hall, François Perrier, Barghash bin Said of Zanzibar, Philip Henry Gosse, Alessandro Antonelli, and Francesco Faà di Bruno. After him are Yuriy Fedkovych, Arsène Darmesteter, Kanō Hōgai, Jan van Beers, Morrison Waite, and Carl Gustav Axel Harnack.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Amos Bronson Alcott ranks 6,368 out of 20,380. Before him are Wendell Willkie (1892), Barbara La Marr (1896), Harold D. Babcock (1882), Hunter Tylo (1962), Bobby Womack (1944), and Patti Scialfa (1953). After him are Lexington Steele (1969), George Murdock (1897), Jonathan Carroll (1949), Melinda Dillon (1939), Bo Goldman (1932), and Mother Angelica (1923).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In United States

Among philosophers born in United States, Amos Bronson Alcott ranks 57. Before him are Barrington Moore Jr. (1913), Richard Posner (1939), Ned Block (1942), Susan George (1934), Michael Hardt (1960), and Sandra Harding (1935). After him are Cornel West (1953), Gary L. Francione (1954), Nancy Cartwright (1944), Marshall Berman (1940), Allan Bloom (1930), and William Lane Craig (1949).

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