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PHILOSOPHER

Franz Xaver von Baader

1765 - 1841

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Franz von Baader (27 March 1765 – 23 May 1841), born Benedikt Franz Xaver Baader, was a German Catholic philosopher, theologian, physician, and mining engineer. Resisting the empiricism of his day, he denounced most Western philosophy since Descartes as trending into atheism and has been considered a revival of the Scholastic school. He was one of the most influential theologians of his age but his influence on subsequent philosophy has been less marked, and tends to be submerged into the esoteric discussions of later thinkers rather than cited explicitly in major publications. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Franz Xaver von Baader has received more than 67,035 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Franz Xaver von Baader is the 634th most popular philosopher (up from 646th in 2019), the 1,903rd most popular biography from Germany (up from 1,908th in 2019) and the 85th most popular German Philosopher.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Franz Xaver von Baader ranks 634 out of 1,081Before him are Ernst Nolte, Andreas Karlstadt, Pierre Charron, Leo the Mathematician, Ari Thorgilsson, and Gersonides. After him are Gilbert Ryle, Cebes, Friedrich Albert Lange, Muhammad Husayn Tabatabai, Hippo, and Johan Vilhelm Snellman.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1765, Franz Xaver von Baader ranks 16Before him are Princess Augusta Wilhelmine of Hesse-Darmstadt, Paolo Ruffini, José María Morelos, Michał Kleofas Ogiński, Frederick Christian II, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg, and Carl Ludwig Willdenow. After him are Pierre Dupont de l'Étang, Nguyễn Du, Duchess Frederica of Württemberg, Charles Hatchett, Jean-Baptiste Drouet, Comte d'Erlon, and Eli Whitney. Among people deceased in 1841, Franz Xaver von Baader ranks 17Before him are Friedrich Sertürner, Frederica of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Minh Mạng, Friedrich Parrot, Félix Savart, and Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin. After him are Honoré V, Prince of Monaco, Tokugawa Ienari, Countess Claudine Rhédey von Kis-Rhéde, Bertrand Barère, Aloysius Bertrand, and George Green.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Franz Xaver von Baader ranks 1,903 out of 6,142Before him are Wilhelm Heinrich Wackenroder (1773), Berthold, Duke of Merania (1153), Carl Ludwig Willdenow (1765), Richard Z. Kruspe (1967), Duchess Augusta of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1764), and Kunigunde of Hohenstaufen (1202). After him are Matthias Jabs (1955), Adolf Frederick I, Duke of Mecklenburg (1588), Fridolin von Senger und Etterlin (1891), Heinz Brandt (1907), Hermann I, Landgrave of Thuringia (1155), and Heinrich Bär (1913).

Among PHILOSOPHERS In Germany

Among philosophers born in Germany, Franz Xaver von Baader ranks 85Before him are Constantin von Tischendorf (1815), Johannes Sturm (1507), Ernst Moritz Arndt (1769), Karl Christian Friedrich Krause (1781), Ernst Nolte (1923), and Andreas Karlstadt (1486). After him are Friedrich Albert Lange (1828), Hermann Samuel Reimarus (1694), Theodor Lipps (1851), Helmuth Plessner (1892), Alfred Schmidt (1931), and Rudolph Goclenius (1547).