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Athanasius Kircher

1602 - 1680

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Athanasius Kircher (2 May 1602 – 27 November 1680) was a German Jesuit scholar and polymath who published around 40 major works of comparative religion, geology, and medicine. Kircher has been compared to fellow Jesuit Roger Joseph Boscovich and to Leonardo da Vinci for his vast range of interests, and has been honoured with the title "Master of a Hundred Arts". He taught for more than 40 years at the Roman College, where he set up a wunderkammer or cabinet of curiosities. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Athanasius Kircher has received more than 835,508 page views. His biography is available in 51 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 49 in 2019). Athanasius Kircher is the 170th most popular philosopher (up from 186th in 2019), the 281st most popular biography from Germany (up from 294th in 2019) and the 31st most popular German Philosopher.

Athanasius Kircher is most famous for his work in the fields of mathematics, geology, and Egyptology. He was a polymath who published over forty books.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Athanasius Kircher ranks 170 out of 1,267. Before him are Han Fei, Jean Buridan, Jean Baudrillard, Jiddu Krishnamurti, Max Horkheimer, and Cesare Beccaria. After him are Al-Ash'ari, Mikhail Bakhtin, Claude Adrien Helvétius, Xun Kuang, Ernest Renan, and Proclus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1602, Athanasius Kircher ranks 3. Before him are Cardinal Mazarin, and Otto von Guericke. After him are Elisabeth of France, Francesco Cavalli, Philippe de Champaigne, Gilles de Roberval, Salomon van Ruysdael, Per Brahe the Younger, Mary of Jesus of Ágreda, Zhu Yujian, and William V, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel. Among people deceased in 1680, Athanasius Kircher ranks 4. Before him are Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Shivaji, and François de La Rochefoucauld. After him are Nicolas Fouquet, Raimondo Montecuccoli, Jan Swammerdam, Willem Claesz. Heda, Ferdinand Bol, Charles I Louis, Elector Palatine, Elisabeth of the Palatinate, and Emperor Go-Mizunoo.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Athanasius Kircher ranks 281 out of 7,253. Before him are Lothar Matthäus (1961), Adolf Dassler (1900), Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers (1758), Max Horkheimer (1895), Friedrich Schlegel (1772), and Anton Drexler (1884). After him are Klaus Barbie (1913), Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1945), Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg (1868), Frederick V of the Palatinate (1596), Maria Sibylla Merian (1647), and Irma Grese (1923).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Germany

Among philosophers born in Germany, Athanasius Kircher ranks 31. Before him are Max Stirner (1806), Max Scheler (1874), Herbert Marcuse (1898), Carl Schmitt (1888), Ferdinand Tönnies (1855), and Max Horkheimer (1895). After him are Moses Mendelssohn (1729), Adam Weishaupt (1748), Rudolf Carnap (1891), Ernst Bloch (1885), Hugh of Saint Victor (1096), and Hans Jonas (1903).

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