PHILOSOPHER

Bruno Bauer

1809 - 1882

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Bruno Bauer (German: [baʊɐ]; 6 September 1809 – 13 April 1882) was a German philosopher and theologian. As a student of G. W. F. Hegel, Bauer was a radical Rationalist in philosophy, politics and Biblical criticism. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Bruno Bauer has received more than 372,212 page views. His biography is available in 42 different languages on Wikipedia (down from 43 in 2019). Bruno Bauer is the 284th most popular philosopher (down from 278th in 2019), the 599th most popular biography from Germany (up from 601st in 2019) and the 39th most popular German Philosopher.

Bruno Bauer is most famous for his criticism of the New Testament and his rejection of the supernatural.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Bruno Bauer ranks 284 out of 1,267. Before him are Sri Aurobindo, Euclid of Megara, Celsus, Cleobulus, François Fénelon, and Synesius. After him are Bruno Latour, Mazdak, Paramahansa Yogananda, G. E. Moore, Francisco Suárez, and Johann Reuchlin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1809, Bruno Bauer ranks 10. Before him are Felix Mendelssohn, Nikolai Gogol, Louis Braille, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, Georges-Eugène Haussmann, and Albert Pike. After him are Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Joseph Liouville, William Ewart Gladstone, Ljudevit Gaj, Hermann Grassmann, and Juliusz Słowacki. Among people deceased in 1882, Bruno Bauer ranks 9. Before him are Friedrich Wöhler, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Arthur de Gobineau, Theodor Schwann, Jesse James, and Dante Gabriel Rossetti. After him are William Stanley Jevons, Francesco Hayez, Léon Gambetta, Louis Blanc, Joseph Liouville, and Mary Todd Lincoln.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Bruno Bauer ranks 599 out of 7,253. Before him are August Bebel (1840), Heinrich Brüning (1885), Karl Gebhardt (1897), August Horch (1868), Willy Messerschmitt (1898), and Fritz Walter (1920). After him are Polykarp Kusch (1911), Felix Hoffmann (1868), Hans-Dieter Flick (1965), Sandra (1962), Rudolf von Jhering (1818), and Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi (1804).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Germany

Among philosophers born in Germany, Bruno Bauer ranks 39. Before him are Adam Weishaupt (1748), Rudolf Carnap (1891), Ernst Bloch (1885), Hugh of Saint Victor (1096), Hans Jonas (1903), and Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi (1743). After him are Johann Reuchlin (1455), Franz Brentano (1838), Carl Gustav Hempel (1905), Rudolf Bultmann (1884), Rudolf Otto (1869), and Moritz Schlick (1882).

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