1798 - 1857
Isidore Auguste Marie François Xavier Comte (French: [oˈɡyst kɔ̃t] ; 19 January 1798 – 30 September 1857) was a French philosopher, mathematician and writer who formulated the doctrine of positivism. He is often regarded as the first philosopher of science in the modern sense of the term. Comte's ideas were also fundamental to the development of sociology, with him inventing the very term and treating the discipline as the crowning achievement of the sciences.Influenced by Henri de Saint-Simon, Comte's work attempted to remedy the social disorder caused by the French Revolution, which he believed indicated imminent transition to a new form of society. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Auguste Comte has received more than 2,822,463 page views. His biography is available in 91 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 89 in 2019). Auguste Comte is the 26th most popular philosopher (up from 35th in 2019), the 19th most popular biography from France (up from 40th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular French Philosopher.
Auguste Comte is most famous for his positivist philosophy, which states that the only true knowledge is scientific knowledge.
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Among philosophers, Auguste Comte ranks 26 out of 1,081. Before him are Thomas Hobbes, Democritus, Arthur Schopenhauer, Epicurus, Seneca the Younger, and Erasmus. After him are Friedrich Engels, Averroes, Heraclitus, Parmenides, Baruch Spinoza, and Martin Heidegger.
1588 - 1679
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460 BC - 360 BC
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1788 - 1860
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341 BC - 269 BC
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4 BC - 65
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1466 - 1536
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1798 - 1857
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1820 - 1895
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1126 - 1198
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535 BC - 470 BC
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501 BC - 470 BC
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1632 - 1677
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1889 - 1976
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Among people born in 1798, Auguste Comte ranks 1. After him are Eugène Delacroix, Adam Mickiewicz, Pedro I of Brazil, Alexandra Feodorovna, Jules Michelet, Charles Albert of Sardinia, Giacomo Leopardi, Marie-Caroline of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Duchess of Berry, Grand Duke Michael Pavlovich of Russia, Archduchess Clementina of Austria, and František Palacký. Among people deceased in 1857, Auguste Comte ranks 1. After him are Augustin-Louis Cauchy, Carl Czerny, Archduchess Sophie of Austria, Eugène François Vidocq, Mikhail Glinka, Dominic Savio, Alfred de Musset, Eugène Sue, Francis Beaufort, Charles Lucien Bonaparte, and Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff.
1798 - 1857
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1798 - 1863
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1798 - 1855
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1798 - 1834
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1798 - 1860
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1798 - 1874
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1798 - 1849
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1798 - 1837
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1798 - 1870
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1798 - 1849
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1798 - 1881
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1798 - 1876
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1798 - 1857
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1789 - 1857
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1791 - 1857
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1855 - 1857
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1775 - 1857
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1804 - 1857
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1842 - 1857
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1810 - 1857
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1804 - 1857
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1774 - 1857
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1803 - 1857
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1788 - 1857
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Among people born in France, Auguste Comte ranks 19 out of 6,011. Before him are Jean-Paul Sartre (1905), Nostradamus (1503), Molière (1622), Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900), Charles de Gaulle (1890), and John Calvin (1509). After him are Alain Delon (1935), Émile Durkheim (1858), Honoré de Balzac (1799), Napoleon III (1808), Coco Chanel (1883), and Paul Cézanne (1839).
1905 - 1980
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1900 - 1944
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1890 - 1970
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1509 - 1564
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1798 - 1857
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1935 - Present
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1858 - 1917
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1799 - 1850
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1808 - 1873
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1883 - 1971
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1839 - 1906
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Among philosophers born in France, Auguste Comte ranks 3. Before him are René Descartes (1596) and Montesquieu (1689). After him are Michel de Montaigne (1533), Michel Foucault (1926), Henri Bergson (1859), Peter Abelard (1079), Jean Bodin (1530), Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (1809), Roland Barthes (1915), Henri de Saint-Simon (1760), and Charles Fourier (1772).
1596 - 1650
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1689 - 1755
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1798 - 1857
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1533 - 1592
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1926 - 1984
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1859 - 1941
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1079 - 1142
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1530 - 1596
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1809 - 1865
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1915 - 1980
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1760 - 1825
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1772 - 1837
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