1679 - 1754
Christian Wolff (less correctly Wolf, German: [vɔlf]; also known as Wolfius; ennobled as Christian Freiherr von Wolff in 1745; 24 January 1679 – 9 April 1754) was a German philosopher. Wolff is characterized as one of the most eminent German philosophers between Leibniz and Kant. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Christian Wolff has received more than 26,652 page views. His biography is available in 49 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 48 in 2019). Christian Wolff is the 156th most popular philosopher (up from 170th in 2019), the 47th most popular biography from Poland (up from 54th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Polish Philosopher.
Christian Wolff was a German mathematician who is best known for his work in the calculus of variations.
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Among philosophers, Christian Wolff ranks 156 out of 1,081. Before him are Herbert Marcuse, Hippias, Adi Shankara, John Wycliffe, Louis Althusser, and Ernst Cassirer. After him are Adam Weishaupt, Ferdinand Tönnies, Max Stirner, Mikhail Bakhtin, Padmasambhava, and Cesare Beccaria.
1898 - 1979
HPI: 70.50
Rank: 150
443 BC - 399 BC
HPI: 70.50
Rank: 151
788 - 820
HPI: 70.44
Rank: 152
1324 - 1384
HPI: 70.25
Rank: 153
1918 - 1990
HPI: 70.23
Rank: 154
1874 - 1945
HPI: 70.18
Rank: 155
1679 - 1754
HPI: 70.12
Rank: 156
1748 - 1830
HPI: 70.09
Rank: 157
1855 - 1936
HPI: 70.08
Rank: 158
1806 - 1856
HPI: 69.99
Rank: 159
1895 - 1975
HPI: 69.93
Rank: 160
717 - 762
HPI: 69.92
Rank: 161
1738 - 1794
HPI: 69.88
Rank: 162
Among people born in 1679, Christian Wolff ranks 1. After him are Leopold, Duke of Lorraine, Jan Dismas Zelenka, Antonio Farnese, Duke of Parma, Woodes Rogers, Charles III William, Margrave of Baden-Durlach, Princess Magdalena Augusta of Anhalt-Zerbst, Pierre Fauchard, Jean François de Troy, Firmin Abauzit, Pietro Filippo Scarlatti, and Friedrich Wilhelm, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen. Among people deceased in 1754, Christian Wolff ranks 2. Before him is Mahmud I. After him are Abraham de Moivre, Ludvig Holberg, Maria Anna of Austria, Henry Fielding, Giovanni Battista Piazzetta, Jacopo Riccati, Henry Pelham, Maria Teresa Felicitas d'Este, Edward Cave, and Nicolai Eigtved.
1679 - 1754
HPI: 70.12
Rank: 1
1679 - 1729
HPI: 66.39
Rank: 2
1679 - 1745
HPI: 63.89
Rank: 3
1679 - 1731
HPI: 59.40
Rank: 4
1679 - 1732
HPI: 58.33
Rank: 5
1679 - 1738
HPI: 57.01
Rank: 6
1679 - 1740
HPI: 55.31
Rank: 7
1679 - 1761
HPI: 53.79
Rank: 8
1679 - 1752
HPI: 53.34
Rank: 9
1679 - 1767
HPI: 51.71
Rank: 10
1679 - 1750
HPI: 49.83
Rank: 11
1679 - 1746
HPI: 48.91
Rank: 12
1696 - 1754
HPI: 74.65
Rank: 1
1679 - 1754
HPI: 70.12
Rank: 2
1667 - 1754
HPI: 68.57
Rank: 3
1684 - 1754
HPI: 65.21
Rank: 4
1683 - 1754
HPI: 64.04
Rank: 5
1707 - 1754
HPI: 61.23
Rank: 6
1683 - 1754
HPI: 58.13
Rank: 7
1676 - 1754
HPI: 55.63
Rank: 8
1694 - 1754
HPI: 54.53
Rank: 9
1726 - 1754
HPI: 52.60
Rank: 10
1691 - 1754
HPI: 51.95
Rank: 11
1701 - 1754
HPI: 48.91
Rank: 12
Among people born in Poland, Christian Wolff ranks 47 out of 1,454. Before him are Zbigniew Brzezinski (1928), Rudolf Clausius (1822), Sigismund II Augustus (1520), Lech Kaczyński (1949), Tamara de Lempicka (1898), and Ernst Cassirer (1874). After him are Maria Goeppert Mayer (1906), Paul Ehrlich (1854), Wojciech Jaruzelski (1923), Władysław III of Poland (1424), Klaus Kinski (1926), and Otto Stern (1888).
1928 - 2017
HPI: 70.64
Rank: 41
1822 - 1888
HPI: 70.49
Rank: 42
1520 - 1572
HPI: 70.47
Rank: 43
1949 - 2010
HPI: 70.32
Rank: 44
1898 - 1980
HPI: 70.19
Rank: 45
1874 - 1945
HPI: 70.18
Rank: 46
1679 - 1754
HPI: 70.12
Rank: 47
1906 - 1972
HPI: 70.09
Rank: 48
1854 - 1915
HPI: 70.05
Rank: 49
1923 - 2014
HPI: 70.02
Rank: 50
1424 - 1444
HPI: 69.98
Rank: 51
1926 - 1991
HPI: 69.94
Rank: 52
1888 - 1969
HPI: 69.91
Rank: 53
Among philosophers born in Poland, Christian Wolff ranks 5. Before him are Arthur Schopenhauer (1788), Johann Gottfried Herder (1744), Zygmunt Bauman (1925), and Ernst Cassirer (1874). After him are Friedrich Schleiermacher (1768), Jakob Böhme (1575), Judah Loew ben Bezalel (1512), Alfred Tarski (1901), Günther Anders (1902), Paul Tillich (1886), and Heinrich Rickert (1863).
1788 - 1860
HPI: 84.74
Rank: 1
1744 - 1803
HPI: 74.46
Rank: 2
1925 - 2017
HPI: 72.45
Rank: 3
1874 - 1945
HPI: 70.18
Rank: 4
1679 - 1754
HPI: 70.12
Rank: 5
1768 - 1834
HPI: 69.85
Rank: 6
1575 - 1624
HPI: 69.20
Rank: 7
1512 - 1609
HPI: 66.40
Rank: 8
1901 - 1983
HPI: 63.98
Rank: 9
1902 - 1992
HPI: 61.85
Rank: 10
1886 - 1965
HPI: 61.27
Rank: 11
1863 - 1936
HPI: 61.02
Rank: 12