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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 359,555 page views. His biography is available in 47 different languages on Wikipedia. Bernard Bolzano is the 224th most popular philosopher (down from 216th in 2019), the 49th most popular biography from Czechia (down from 42nd 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 224 out of 1,081Before him are Miguel de Unamuno, Isaiah Berlin, Baltasar Gracián, Paul Feyerabend, Giorgio Agamben, and Milarepa. After him are Bayazid Bastami, Imre Lakatos, Cratylus, Gaston Bachelard, Pelagius, and Benjamin Constant.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1781, Bernard Bolzano ranks 6Before him are George Stephenson, Eugène de Beauharnais, Louis Joseph, Dauphin of France, Karl Friedrich Schinkel, and René Laennec. After him are Siméon Denis Poisson, Adelbert von Chamisso, Stamford Raffles, Anton Diabelli, Frederica of Baden, and David Brewster. Among people deceased in 1848, Bernard Bolzano ranks 9Before him are George Stephenson, Emily Brontë, François-René de Chateaubriand, John Quincy Adams, Ibrahim Pasha of Egypt, and Christian VIII of Denmark. After him are Caroline Herschel, William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne, María Isabella of Spain, Nicolas Oudinot, Vissarion Belinsky, and Louis II, Grand Duke of Hesse.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Bernard Bolzano ranks 49 out of 973Before him are Wenceslaus II of Bohemia (1271), Gerty Cori (1896), Bohumil Hrabal (1914), Emil Hácha (1872), Václav Klaus (1941), and Josef Masopust (1931). After him are Marie, Princess of Liechtenstein (1940), Karel Gott (1939), Antonín Panenka (1948), Milena Jesenská (1896), Adalbert of Prague (955), and Karl Renner (1870).

Among PHILOSOPHERS In Czechia

Among philosophers born in Czechia, Bernard Bolzano ranks 5Before him are John Amos Comenius (1592), Edmund Husserl (1859), Hans Kelsen (1881), and Karl Kautsky (1854). After him are Jerome of Prague (1379), Vilém Flusser (1920), Jan Patočka (1907), Karel Kosík (1926), František Tomášek (1899), Tomáš Halík (1948), and Egon Bondy (1930).