1743 - 1819
Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi (German: [jaˈkoːbi]; 25 January 1743 – 10 March 1819) was an influential German philosopher, literary figure, and socialite. He is notable for popularizing nihilism, a term coined by Obereit in 1787, and promoting it as the prime fault of Enlightenment thought particularly in the philosophical systems of Baruch Spinoza, Immanuel Kant, Johann Fichte and Friedrich Schelling.Jacobi advocated Glaube (variously translated as faith or "belief") and revelation instead of speculative reason. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi has received more than 207,035 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia. Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi is the 320th most popular philosopher (down from 315th in 2019), the 699th most popular biography from Germany (down from 657th in 2019) and the 44th most popular German Philosopher.
Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi is most famous for his contributions to the philosophy of Immanuel Kant. Jacobi was one of the first philosophers to write against Kant's philosophy, and he believed that Kant's philosophy was flawed because it did not account for the reality of the human mind.
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Among philosophers, Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi ranks 320 out of 1,081. Before him are Justus Lipsius, Sebastian Brant, Isaac Abarbanel, Giovanni Gentile, Alfred Schütz, and Thrasymachus. After him are Aenesidemus, Heraclides Ponticus, Jean-Luc Nancy, Gemistus Pletho, Alexandre Koyré, and David Strauss.
1547 - 1606
HPI: 63.51
Rank: 314
1458 - 1521
HPI: 63.46
Rank: 315
1437 - 1508
HPI: 63.45
Rank: 316
1875 - 1944
HPI: 63.43
Rank: 317
1899 - 1959
HPI: 63.42
Rank: 318
459 BC - 399 BC
HPI: 63.40
Rank: 319
1743 - 1819
HPI: 63.39
Rank: 320
80 BC - 10 BC
HPI: 63.33
Rank: 321
385 BC - 322 BC
HPI: 63.33
Rank: 322
1940 - 2021
HPI: 63.32
Rank: 323
1355 - 1452
HPI: 63.29
Rank: 324
1892 - 1964
HPI: 63.23
Rank: 325
1808 - 1874
HPI: 63.20
Rank: 326
Among people born in 1743, Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi ranks 11. Before him are Luigi Boccherini, Alessandro Cagliostro, Marquis de Condorcet, Archduchess Maria Elisabeth of Austria, Toussaint Louverture, and Martin Heinrich Klaproth. After him are Carl Peter Thunberg, Edmund Cartwright, Nicolai Abildgaard, René Just Haüy, William I, Elector of Hesse, and Gavrila Derzhavin. Among people deceased in 1819, Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi ranks 6. Before him are James Watt, Charles IV of Spain, Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, Maria Luisa of Parma, and Kamehameha I. After him are Catherine Pavlovna of Russia, Charles Emmanuel IV of Sardinia, Daniel Rutherford, August von Kotzebue, Jean-Mathieu-Philibert Sérurier, and Honoré IV, Prince of Monaco.
1743 - 1805
HPI: 70.67
Rank: 5
1743 - 1795
HPI: 69.70
Rank: 6
1743 - 1794
HPI: 68.33
Rank: 7
1743 - 1808
HPI: 67.00
Rank: 8
1743 - 1803
HPI: 66.07
Rank: 9
1743 - 1817
HPI: 65.36
Rank: 10
1743 - 1819
HPI: 63.39
Rank: 11
1743 - 1828
HPI: 61.89
Rank: 12
1743 - 1823
HPI: 61.45
Rank: 13
1743 - 1809
HPI: 60.98
Rank: 14
1743 - 1822
HPI: 58.97
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1743 - 1821
HPI: 58.70
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1743 - 1816
HPI: 58.25
Rank: 17
1736 - 1819
HPI: 86.42
Rank: 1
1748 - 1819
HPI: 71.74
Rank: 2
1742 - 1819
HPI: 69.05
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1751 - 1819
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1758 - 1819
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1743 - 1819
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1788 - 1819
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1751 - 1819
HPI: 62.37
Rank: 8
1749 - 1819
HPI: 60.64
Rank: 9
1761 - 1819
HPI: 58.96
Rank: 10
1742 - 1819
HPI: 58.23
Rank: 11
1758 - 1819
HPI: 57.50
Rank: 12
Among people born in Germany, Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi ranks 699 out of 6,142. Before him are Juana Bormann (1893), Wilhelmine of Prussia, Queen of the Netherlands (1774), Wilhelm Marx (1863), Hans-Joachim Marseille (1919), Max Reger (1873), and Friedrich Mohs (1773). After him are Johann Joachim Quantz (1697), Götz von Berlichingen (1480), Peter Kürten (1883), Hans von Bülow (1830), Augusta of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1811), and George V of Hanover (1819).
1893 - 1945
HPI: 63.44
Rank: 693
1774 - 1837
HPI: 63.43
Rank: 694
1863 - 1946
HPI: 63.43
Rank: 695
1919 - 1942
HPI: 63.42
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1873 - 1916
HPI: 63.41
Rank: 697
1773 - 1839
HPI: 63.41
Rank: 698
1743 - 1819
HPI: 63.39
Rank: 699
1697 - 1773
HPI: 63.38
Rank: 700
1480 - 1562
HPI: 63.37
Rank: 701
1883 - 1931
HPI: 63.33
Rank: 702
1830 - 1894
HPI: 63.32
Rank: 703
1811 - 1890
HPI: 63.31
Rank: 704
1819 - 1878
HPI: 63.30
Rank: 705
Among philosophers born in Germany, Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi ranks 44. Before him are Hans Jonas (1903), Bruno Bauer (1809), Rudolf Bultmann (1884), Adam of Bremen (null), Rudolf Otto (1869), and Johann Reuchlin (1455). After him are David Strauss (1808), Moritz Schlick (1882), Hermann Cohen (1842), Wilhelm Windelband (1848), Moses Hess (1812), and Karl Robert Eduard von Hartmann (1842).
1903 - 1993
HPI: 65.08
Rank: 38
1809 - 1882
HPI: 64.51
Rank: 39
1884 - 1976
HPI: 64.44
Rank: 40
HPI: 64.24
Rank: 41
1869 - 1937
HPI: 64.07
Rank: 42
1455 - 1522
HPI: 63.92
Rank: 43
1743 - 1819
HPI: 63.39
Rank: 44
1808 - 1874
HPI: 63.20
Rank: 45
1882 - 1936
HPI: 63.15
Rank: 46
1842 - 1918
HPI: 62.42
Rank: 47
1848 - 1915
HPI: 62.24
Rank: 48
1812 - 1875
HPI: 61.81
Rank: 49
1842 - 1906
HPI: 61.69
Rank: 50