PHILOSOPHER

Baltasar Gracián

1601 - 1658

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Baltasar Gracián y Morales, S.J. (Spanish: [baltaˈsaɾ ɣɾaˈθjan]; 8 January 1601 – 6 December 1658), better known as Baltasar Gracián, was a Spanish Jesuit priest and Baroque prose writer and philosopher. He was born in Belmonte, near Calatayud (Aragón). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Baltasar Gracián has received more than 417,801 page views. His biography is available in 40 different languages on Wikipedia. Baltasar Gracián is the 193rd most popular philosopher (up from 220th in 2019), the 98th most popular biography from Spain (up from 123rd in 2019) and the 7th most popular Spanish Philosopher.

Baltasar Gracián is most famous for his "The Art of Worldly Wisdom," a book of aphorisms and maxims.

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  • 40

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 9.20

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.49

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Baltasar Gracián ranks 193 out of 1,267. Before him are Ibn Tufail, Nicolas Malebranche, Jakob Böhme, Emmanuel Levinas, Pierre Gassendi, and Maurice Merleau-Ponty. After him are Slavoj Žižek, Diotima of Mantinea, Solomon ibn Gabirol, Melissus of Samos, Muhammad Abduh, and Adam Weishaupt.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1601, Baltasar Gracián ranks 4. Before him are Louis XIII of France, Pierre de Fermat, and Anne of Austria. After him are Jan Brueghel the Younger, Ernest I, Duke of Saxe-Gotha, John Eudes, Alonzo Cano, Tugay Bey, Charles Philip, Duke of Södermanland, Simon de Vlieger, and Anne Eleonore of Hesse-Darmstadt. Among people deceased in 1658, Baltasar Gracián ranks 2. Before him is Oliver Cromwell. After him are Francesco I d'Este, Duke of Modena, Adolf Frederick I, Duke of Mecklenburg, Bertuccio Valier, Lucy Walter, and Richard Lovelace.

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In Spain

Among people born in Spain, Baltasar Gracián ranks 98 out of 3,355. Before him are Avempace (1080), Ibn Tufail (1110), Dolores Ibárruri (1895), Anna of Austria, Queen of Spain (1549), Blanche of Castile (1188), and Vincent of Saragossa (300). After him are Maria of Austria, Holy Roman Empress (1528), José Carreras (1946), Catherine of Austria, Queen of Portugal (1507), Solomon ibn Gabirol (1021), Cristóbal Balenciaga (1895), and Paco Rabanne (1934).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Spain

Among philosophers born in Spain, Baltasar Gracián ranks 7. Before him are Seneca the Younger (-4), Averroes (1126), Ibn Arabi (1165), Ramon Llull (1232), José Ortega y Gasset (1883), and Ibn Tufail (1110). After him are Solomon ibn Gabirol (1021), Miguel de Unamuno (1864), Abraham ibn Ezra (1089), Francisco Suárez (1548), Arnaldus de Villa Nova (1240), and Francisco de Vitoria (1483).

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