PHILOSOPHER

Anania Shirakatsi

610 - 685

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Anania Shirakatsi (Old Armenian: Անանիա Շիրակացի, Anania Širakac’i, anglicized: Ananias of Shirak) was a 7th-century Armenian polymath and natural philosopher, author of extant works covering mathematics, astronomy, geography, chronology, and other fields. Little is known for certain of his life outside of his own writings, but he is considered the father of the exact and natural sciences in Armenia—the first Armenian mathematician, astronomer, and cosmographer. A part of the Armenian Hellenizing School and one of the few secular scholars in medieval Armenia, Anania was educated primarily by Tychicus, in Trebizond. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Anania Shirakatsi has received more than 93,310 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Anania Shirakatsi is the 680th most popular philosopher (up from 716th in 2019), the 27th most popular biography from Armenia (down from 25th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Armenian Philosopher.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Anania Shirakatsi ranks 680 out of 1,267. Before him are Julius Pollux, Lucien Goldmann, Jean-Marie Guyau, Wang Bi, Amalric of Bena, and Rudolph Goclenius. After him are Maximus of Tyre, Zhang Zai, Johannes Sturm, Zalmoxis, Alexander Zinoviev, and Theophan Prokopovich.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 610, Anania Shirakatsi ranks 7. Before him are Pope Adeodatus II, Safiyya bint Huyayy, Abdullah ibn Umar, Pope Donus, Egica, and Grimoald, King of the Lombards. After him are Godepert, and Pulakeshin II. Among people deceased in 685, Anania Shirakatsi ranks 5. Before him are Marwan I, Pope Benedict II, Constantine IV, and Ubayd Allah ibn Ziyad. After him are Catald, Ecgfrith of Northumbria, and Hlothhere of Kent.

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In Armenia

Among people born in Armenia, Anania Shirakatsi ranks 27 out of 163. Before him are Armen Dzhigarkhanyan (1935), Djivan Gasparyan (1928), Karekin II (1951), Nikol Pashinyan (1975), Arno Babajanian (1921), and Olga Chekhova (1897). After him are Ashot II of Armenia (849), Alexander Arutiunian (1920), Silva Kaputikyan (1919), Karen Demirchyan (1932), Frunzik Mkrtchyan (1930), and Vazgen Sargsyan (1959).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Armenia

Among philosophers born in Armenia, Anania Shirakatsi ranks 2. Before him are George Gurdjieff (1866).

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