PHILOSOPHER

Bernard Bolzano

1781 - 1848

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Bernard Bolzano (UK: , US: ; German: [bɔlˈtsaːno]; Italian: [bolˈtsaːno]; born Bernardus Placidus Johann Nepomuk Bolzano; 5 October 1781 – 18 December 1848) was a Bohemian mathematician, logician, philosopher, theologian and Catholic priest of Italian extraction, also known for his liberal views. Bolzano wrote in German, his native language. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Bernard Bolzano has received more than 389,343 page views. His biography is available in 50 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 47 in 2019). Bernard Bolzano is the 186th most popular philosopher (up from 224th in 2019), the 43rd most popular biography from Czechia (up from 49th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Czech Philosopher.

Bernard Bolzano is most famous for his work in the fields of mathematical logic and philosophy.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Bernard Bolzano ranks 186 out of 1,267. Before him are Paul Ricœur, José Ortega y Gasset, Julien Offray de La Mettrie, Marquis de Condorcet, Apollonius of Tyana, and Moses Mendelssohn. After him are Ibn Tufail, Nicolas Malebranche, Jakob Böhme, Emmanuel Levinas, Pierre Gassendi, and Maurice Merleau-Ponty.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1781, Bernard Bolzano ranks 4. Before him are Eugène de Beauharnais, George Stephenson, and Louis Joseph, Dauphin of France. After him are Karl Friedrich Schinkel, René Laennec, Siméon Denis Poisson, Stamford Raffles, Adelbert von Chamisso, William I of Württemberg, Anton Diabelli, and Achim von Arnim. Among people deceased in 1848, Bernard Bolzano ranks 9. Before him are Gaetano Donizetti, François-René de Chateaubriand, George Stephenson, John Quincy Adams, Christian VIII of Denmark, and Ibrahim Pasha of Egypt. After him are Caroline Herschel, Vissarion Belinsky, Nicolas Oudinot, María Isabella of Spain, Mohammad Shah Qajar, and Khachatur Abovian.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Bernard Bolzano ranks 43 out of 1,200. Before him are Miloš Zeman (1944), Klement Gottwald (1896), Karl Kautsky (1854), Emil Zátopek (1922), Max Brod (1884), and Wenceslaus I, Duke of Bohemia (907). After him are Adolf Loos (1870), Madeleine Albright (1937), Wenceslaus III of Bohemia (1289), Ludvík Svoboda (1895), Antonín Panenka (1948), and Gerty Cori (1896).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Czechia

Among philosophers born in Czechia, Bernard Bolzano ranks 5. Before him are John Amos Comenius (1592), Edmund Husserl (1859), Hans Kelsen (1881), and Karl Kautsky (1854). After him are Jerome of Prague (1379), Jan Patočka (1907), Vilém Flusser (1920), Karel Kosík (1926), Theodor Gomperz (1832), František Tomášek (1899), and Tomáš Halík (1948).

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