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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 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 387,119 page views. His biography is available in 40 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 36 in 2019). Baltasar Gracián is the 220th most popular philosopher (up from 233rd in 2019), the 123rd most popular biography from Spain (up from 127th in 2019) and the 9th 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)

  • 8.11

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  • 2.66

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Baltasar Gracián ranks 220 out of 1,081. Before him are Chilon of Sparta, Bias of Priene, Slavoj Žižek, Benedetto Croce, Miguel de Unamuno, and Isaiah Berlin. After him are Paul Feyerabend, Giorgio Agamben, Milarepa, Bernard Bolzano, Bayazid Bastami, and Imre Lakatos.

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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, Alonzo Cano, John Eudes, Tugay Bey, Simon de Vlieger, Anne Eleonore of Hesse-Darmstadt, and Alvise Contarini. 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 123 out of 2,932. Before him are Ibn Tufail (1110), Henry II of Navarre (1503), Seneca the Elder (-54), Pelagius of Asturias (685), Miguel de Unamuno (1864), and Manuel Azaña (1880). After him are Javier Solana (1942), Margaret Theresa of Spain (1651), Paco de Lucía (1947), Ferdinand I of Aragon (1380), John II of Castile (1405), and Ferdinand I of León (1016).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Spain

Among philosophers born in Spain, Baltasar Gracián ranks 9. Before him are Ibn Arabi (1165), Ramon Llull (1232), Solomon ibn Gabirol (1021), José Ortega y Gasset (1883), Ibn Tufail (1110), and Miguel de Unamuno (1864). After him are Francisco Suárez (1548), Arnaldus de Villa Nova (1240), Abraham ibn Ezra (1089), Francisco de Vitoria (1483), Juan Luis Vives (1492), and Pompeia Plotina (65).

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