1715 - 1771
Claude Adrien Helvétius (; French: [klod adʁijɛ̃ ɛlvesjys]; 26 January 1715 – 26 December 1771) was a French philosopher, freemason and littérateur. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Claude Adrien Helvétius has received more than 243,368 page views. His biography is available in 45 different languages on Wikipedia. Claude Adrien Helvétius is the 178th most popular philosopher (down from 165th in 2019), the 363rd most popular biography from France (down from 337th in 2019) and the 21st most popular French Philosopher.
Claude Adrien Helvétius is most famous for his work "On the Mind" which was published in 1758. In it, he argues that the human mind is a tabula rasa, or blank slate, and that human beings are shaped by their environment.
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Among philosophers, Claude Adrien Helvétius ranks 178 out of 1,081. Before him are Julien Offray de La Mettrie, Karl Kautsky, Solomon ibn Gabirol, José Ortega y Gasset, Pierre Gassendi, and Max Horkheimer. After him are Emmanuel Levinas, Posidonius, Hippasus, Han Fei, Jakob Böhme, and Muhammad Abduh.
1709 - 1751
HPI: 69.64
Rank: 172
1854 - 1938
HPI: 69.60
Rank: 173
1021 - 1058
HPI: 69.59
Rank: 174
1883 - 1955
HPI: 69.57
Rank: 175
1592 - 1655
HPI: 69.55
Rank: 176
1895 - 1973
HPI: 69.54
Rank: 177
1715 - 1771
HPI: 69.51
Rank: 178
1906 - 1995
HPI: 69.50
Rank: 179
135 BC - 51 BC
HPI: 69.49
Rank: 180
600 BC - 500 BC
HPI: 69.44
Rank: 181
280 BC - 232 BC
HPI: 69.21
Rank: 182
1575 - 1624
HPI: 69.20
Rank: 183
1849 - 1905
HPI: 69.20
Rank: 184
Among people born in 1715, Claude Adrien Helvétius ranks 2. Before him is Peter II of Russia. After him are Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel-Bevern, Robert-François Damiens, Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues, Johann Gottfried Bernhard Bach, Georg Christoph Wagenseil, Victor de Riqueti, marquis de Mirabeau, William Watson, Dorothea Erxleben, Charles, Prince of Soubise, and Christian Fürchtegott Gellert. Among people deceased in 1771, Claude Adrien Helvétius ranks 2. Before him is Adolf Frederick, King of Sweden. After him are Philip Miller, Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli, Giovanni Battista Morgagni, Henri Pitot, Louis-Michel van Loo, Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d'Argens, Alexei Razumovsky, Thomas Gray, John Bevis, and Tobias Smollett.
1715 - 1730
HPI: 73.47
Rank: 1
1715 - 1771
HPI: 69.51
Rank: 2
1715 - 1797
HPI: 62.82
Rank: 3
1715 - 1757
HPI: 59.04
Rank: 4
1715 - 1747
HPI: 58.15
Rank: 5
1715 - 1739
HPI: 56.63
Rank: 6
1715 - 1777
HPI: 56.17
Rank: 7
1715 - 1789
HPI: 55.30
Rank: 8
1715 - 1787
HPI: 54.64
Rank: 9
1715 - 1762
HPI: 54.12
Rank: 10
1715 - 1787
HPI: 53.97
Rank: 11
1715 - 1769
HPI: 53.42
Rank: 12
1710 - 1771
HPI: 69.60
Rank: 1
1715 - 1771
HPI: 69.51
Rank: 2
1691 - 1771
HPI: 62.98
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1700 - 1771
HPI: 62.94
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1682 - 1771
HPI: 60.19
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1695 - 1771
HPI: 56.40
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1707 - 1771
HPI: 56.32
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1704 - 1771
HPI: 54.97
Rank: 8
1709 - 1771
HPI: 54.94
Rank: 9
1716 - 1771
HPI: 54.64
Rank: 10
1695 - 1771
HPI: 54.54
Rank: 11
1721 - 1771
HPI: 54.25
Rank: 12
Among people born in France, Claude Adrien Helvétius ranks 363 out of 6,011. Before him are Louis IV of France (920), Baldwin I of Jerusalem (1058), Pierre Gassendi (1592), Pope Innocent V (1225), Léo Delibes (1836), and Prosper Mérimée (1803). After him are Alexis Carrel (1873), Charles Le Brun (1619), Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin (1699), Gregory of Tours (538), Jean Baptiste Perrin (1870), and François Mauriac (1885).
920 - 954
HPI: 69.58
Rank: 357
1058 - 1118
HPI: 69.56
Rank: 358
1592 - 1655
HPI: 69.55
Rank: 359
1225 - 1276
HPI: 69.55
Rank: 360
1836 - 1891
HPI: 69.54
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1803 - 1870
HPI: 69.51
Rank: 362
1715 - 1771
HPI: 69.51
Rank: 363
1873 - 1944
HPI: 69.50
Rank: 364
1619 - 1690
HPI: 69.46
Rank: 365
1699 - 1779
HPI: 69.40
Rank: 366
538 - 593
HPI: 69.39
Rank: 367
1870 - 1942
HPI: 69.37
Rank: 368
1885 - 1970
HPI: 69.34
Rank: 369
Among philosophers born in France, Claude Adrien Helvétius ranks 21. Before him are Jean Baudrillard (1929), Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908), Paul Ricœur (1913), Jean Buridan (1295), Julien Offray de La Mettrie (1709), and Pierre Gassendi (1592). After him are Ernest Renan (1823), Pierre Bayle (1647), Nicolas Malebranche (1638), Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881), Marquis de Condorcet (1743), and Étienne Bonnot de Condillac (1714).
1929 - 2007
HPI: 70.57
Rank: 15
1908 - 1961
HPI: 69.85
Rank: 16
1913 - 2005
HPI: 69.69
Rank: 17
1295 - 1361
HPI: 69.65
Rank: 18
1709 - 1751
HPI: 69.64
Rank: 19
1592 - 1655
HPI: 69.55
Rank: 20
1715 - 1771
HPI: 69.51
Rank: 21
1823 - 1892
HPI: 68.88
Rank: 22
1647 - 1706
HPI: 68.82
Rank: 23
1638 - 1715
HPI: 68.60
Rank: 24
1881 - 1955
HPI: 68.36
Rank: 25
1743 - 1794
HPI: 68.33
Rank: 26
1714 - 1780
HPI: 68.15
Rank: 27