PHILOSOPHER

Ferdinand Christian Baur

1792 - 1860

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Ferdinand Christian Baur (21 June 1792 – 2 December 1860) was a German Protestant theologian and founder and leader of the (new) Tübingen School of theology (named for the University of Tübingen where Baur studied and taught). Following Hegel's theory of dialectic, Baur argued that second century Christianity represented the synthesis of two opposing theses: Jewish Christianity (Petrine Christianity) and Gentile Christianity (Pauline Christianity). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ferdinand Christian Baur has received more than 129,240 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Ferdinand Christian Baur is the 842nd most popular philosopher (down from 804th in 2019), the 2,789th most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,610th in 2019) and the 107th most popular German Philosopher.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Ferdinand Christian Baur ranks 842 out of 1,267. Before him are Porcia, F. H. Bradley, Charles Kay Ogden, Joseph Dietzgen, Gilbert Simondon, and Ibn Abi'l-Hadid. After him are Ferenc Dávid, Arai Hakuseki, Lucian Blaga, Valentin Weigel, Franciscus Gomarus, and Ludovico Antonio Muratori.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1792, Ferdinand Christian Baur ranks 32. Before him are Johann Georg Christian Lehmann, Manuel Oribe, Andrés de Santa Cruz, Mangas Coloradas, Prince Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, and Frederick Marryat. After him are Gustav Schwab, Roderick Murchison, Moritz Hauptmann, Jacques Ignace Hittorff, Lev Perovski, and Jeanne Jugan. Among people deceased in 1860, Ferdinand Christian Baur ranks 30. Before him are George, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, George William, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe, Soliman Pasha al-Faransawi, James Braid, Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps, and Aleksey Khomyakov. After him are Élie, duc Decazes, Duchess Marie of Württemberg, Ludwig Rellstab, Ernst I, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, Johann Friedrich Klotzsch, and Joseph Cafasso.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Ferdinand Christian Baur ranks 2,789 out of 7,253. Before him are Joseph Dietzgen (1828), Julian Nagelsmann (1987), Karl, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg (1813), Matthias Claudius (1740), Henryk Zygalski (1908), and Christoph Daum (1953). After him are Petra Kelly (1947), Jean Malaurie (1922), Duchess Charlotte Felicitas of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1671), Ralf Moeller (1959), Bernhard II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen (1800), and Wilhelm Boger (1906).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Germany

Among philosophers born in Germany, Ferdinand Christian Baur ranks 107. Before him are Friedrich Pollock (1894), Hans Robert Jauss (1921), Leo Löwenthal (1900), Jakob Friedrich Fries (1773), Karl Vogt (1817), and Joseph Dietzgen (1828). After him are Valentin Weigel (1533), Rudolf Stammler (1856), Johann Heinrich Alsted (1588), Theodoric of Freiberg (1250), Albrecht Ritschl (1822), and Ernst von Glasersfeld (1917).

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