PHILOSOPHER

Conrad Celtes

1459 - 1508

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Conrad Celtes (German: Konrad Celtes; Latin: Conradus Celtis (Protucius); 1 February 1459 – 4 February 1508) was a German Renaissance humanist scholar and poet of the German Renaissance born in Franconia (nowadays part of Bavaria). He led the theatrical performances at the Viennese court and reformed the syllabi. Celtis is considered by many to be the greatest of German humanists and thus dubbed "the Archhumanist" (Erzhumanist). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Conrad Celtes has received more than 78,773 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Conrad Celtes is the 580th most popular philosopher (down from 539th in 2019), the 1,650th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,538th in 2019) and the 77th most popular German Philosopher.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Conrad Celtes ranks 580 out of 1,267. Before him are Peter the Iberian, Charles W. Morris, Cesare Ripa, Johann Bernhard Basedow, Ludwig Büchner, and Shah Waliullah Dehlawi. After him are Thiruvalluvar, Kanada, Alcidamas, Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Johann Christoph Gottsched, and Étienne Balibar.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1459, Conrad Celtes ranks 13. Before him are Lorenzo di Credi, John I Albert, Hersekzade Ahmed Pasha, Charles, Count of Angoulême, Cima da Conegliano, and Michael Sittow. After him are Hadım Sinan Pasha, Nicholas, Count of Salm, Jean Mouton, John I, Count Palatine of Simmern, and Yusuf Adil Shah. Among people deceased in 1508, Conrad Celtes ranks 6. Before him are Ludovico Sforza, Beatrice of Naples, Isaac Abarbanel, René II, Duke of Lorraine, and Albert IV, Duke of Bavaria. After him are Guidobaldo da Montefeltro, Philip, Elector Palatine, Radu IV the Great, Nephon II of Constantinople, Nilus of Sora, and Lourenço de Almeida.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Conrad Celtes ranks 1,650 out of 7,253. Before him are Ludwig Büchner (1824), Eugen Jochum (1902), Prince Oskar of Prussia (1888), Heinrich Lehmann-Willenbrock (1911), August Ludwig von Schlözer (1735), and Felix Nussbaum (1904). After him are Margravine Hedwig Sophie of Brandenburg (1623), Christian the Younger of Brunswick (1599), Ludolf Bakhuizen (1630), Ludwig Yorck von Wartenburg (1759), Karl-Adolf Hollidt (1891), and Princess Irene of Hesse and by Rhine (1866).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Germany

Among philosophers born in Germany, Conrad Celtes ranks 77. Before him are Karl Korsch (1886), Axel Honneth (1949), Eric Voegelin (1901), Andreas Karlstadt (1486), Johann Bernhard Basedow (1723), and Ludwig Büchner (1824). After him are Karl Christian Friedrich Krause (1781), Hans Albert (1921), Constantin von Tischendorf (1815), Hermann Samuel Reimarus (1694), Werner Jaeger (1888), and Theodor Lipps (1851).

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