PHILOSOPHER

Anton Wilhelm Amo

1703 - 1759

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Anton Wilhelm Amo or Anthony William Amo (c. 1703 – c. 1759) was a Nzema philosopher from Axim, Dutch Gold Coast (now Ghana). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Anton Wilhelm Amo has received more than 382,481 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Anton Wilhelm Amo is the 722nd most popular philosopher (up from 724th in 2019), the 7th most popular biography from Ghana and the most popular Ghanaian Philosopher.

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  • 55.90

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.35

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.22

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Anton Wilhelm Amo ranks 722 out of 1,267. Before him are Fulbert of Chartres, Lie Yukou, Gilbert Ryle, David the Invincible, John Cantius, and Isaac Israeli ben Solomon. After him are Émile Boutroux, Richard of Saint Victor, Thomas Hill Green, Robert Filmer, Byung-Chul Han, and Vazgen I.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1703, Anton Wilhelm Amo ranks 8. Before him are Marie Leszczyńska, François Boucher, John Wesley, Louis, Duke of Orléans, Shah Waliullah Dehlawi, and Jonathan Edwards. After him are Frederick, Hereditary Prince of Baden-Durlach, Johann Theodor of Bavaria, Johann Gottlieb Graun, Aleksei Chirikov, Vasily Trediakovsky, and Jack Broughton. Among people deceased in 1759, Anton Wilhelm Amo ranks 10. Before him are Pierre Louis Maupertuis, Anne, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange, Carl Heinrich Graun, Louis-Joseph de Montcalm, Prince Karl Anton August of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck, and Jacques Claude Marie Vincent de Gournay. After him are Alamgir II, Louise Henriette de Bourbon, Ewald Christian von Kleist, James Wolfe, Sedjefakare, and Nicolaus I Bernoulli.

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In Ghana

Among people born in Ghana, Anton Wilhelm Amo ranks 7 out of 162. Before him are Kofi Annan (1938), Kwame Nkrumah (1909), Marcel Desailly (1968), Nana Akufo-Addo (1944), Abedi Pele (1964), and Sylvanus Olympio (1902). After him are Jerry Rawlings (1947), Michael Essien (1982), John Atta Mills (1944), Peter Turkson (1948), Peter Mensah (1959), and John Kufuor (1938).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Ghana

Among philosophers born in Ghana, Anton Wilhelm Amo ranks 1. 

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