PHILOSOPHER

Ferenc Dávid

1510 - 1579

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Ferenc Dávid (also rendered as Francis David or Francis Davidis; born as Franz David Hertel, c. 1520 – 15 November 1579) was a Protestant preacher and theologian from Transylvania, the founder of the Unitarian Church of Transylvania, and the leading figure of the Nontrinitarian Christian movements during the Protestant Reformation. He disputed the mainstream Christian doctrine of the Trinity, believing God to be one and indivisible. Studying Catholic theology in Wittenberg and in Frankfurt an der Oder, he was first ordained as a Roman Catholic priest, later he became a Lutheran minister and then a Calvinist bishop in the Principality of Transylvania. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ferenc Dávid has received more than 83,771 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Ferenc Dávid is the 843rd most popular philosopher (down from 828th in 2019), the 182nd most popular biography from Romania (up from 184th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Romanian Philosopher.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Ferenc Dávid ranks 843 out of 1,267. Before him are F. H. Bradley, Charles Kay Ogden, Joseph Dietzgen, Gilbert Simondon, Ibn Abi'l-Hadid, and Ferdinand Christian Baur. After him are Arai Hakuseki, Lucian Blaga, Valentin Weigel, Franciscus Gomarus, Ludovico Antonio Muratori, and Michel Marcel Navratil.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1510, Ferenc Dávid ranks 27. Before him are Guillaume Postel, Margaret Paleologa, Nicolas Durand de Villegaignon, Tullia d'Aragona, Diego Ortiz, and Andrea Schiavone. After him are Alonso Mudarra, Francis I, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg, Teodósio I, Duke of Braganza, Simão Rodrigues, Bonaventure des Périers, and Wan Hu. Among people deceased in 1579, Ferenc Dávid ranks 8. Before him are Albert V, Duke of Bavaria, Joseph Nasi, Hans Staden, Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada, Diego de Landa, and Thomas Gresham. After him are Vicente Juan Masip, Stanislaus Hosius, Simão Rodrigues, Juan Fernández Navarrete, and John Ogilvie.

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In Romania

Among people born in Romania, Ferenc Dávid ranks 182 out of 844. Before him are Saul Steinberg (1914), Ulpia Severina (300), Simon Hollósy (1857), Mihail Sadoveanu (1880), Richard Wurmbrand (1909), and Ion C. Brătianu (1821). After him are Lucian Blaga (1895), Marcel Ciolacu (1967), Alexander Vencel (1944), Constantin Ion Parhon (1874), Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen (1906), and John Houseman (1902).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Romania

Among philosophers born in Romania, Ferenc Dávid ranks 6. Before him are Emil Cioran (1911), Lucien Goldmann (1913), Georges Politzer (1903), Vazgen I (1908), and Péter Pázmány (1570). After him are Lucian Blaga (1895).

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