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PHILOSOPHER

Frithjof Schuon

1907 - 1998

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Frithjof Schuon ( SHOO-on, German: [ˈfʁɪtjɔf ˈʃuːɔn]; 18 June 1907 – 5 May 1998) was a Swiss metaphysician of German descent, belonging to the Traditionalist School of Perennialism. He was the author of more than twenty works in French on metaphysics, spirituality, religion, anthropology and art, which have been translated into English and many other languages. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Frithjof Schuon has received more than 409,068 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Frithjof Schuon is the 691st most popular philosopher (up from 729th in 2019), the 196th most popular biography from Switzerland (up from 209th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Swiss Philosopher.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Frithjof Schuon ranks 691 out of 1,081. Before him are Jaakko Hintikka, Olaf Stapledon, Jean-Marie Guyau, Nisargadatta Maharaj, Michael Walzer, and Theophan Prokopovich. After him are Volin, Salomon Maimon, Abu'l-Barakāt al-Baghdādī, Nausiphanes, Rudolph Goclenius, and Wang Bi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1907, Frithjof Schuon ranks 112. Before him are Roger Peyrefitte, Fay Wray, Tino Rossi, Maurice Couve de Murville, Sabahattin Ali, and Bruno Munari. After him are Violette Leduc, Takeo Miki, Enrique Líster, Ayub Khan, Konstantin Rodzaevsky, and Max Pauly. Among people deceased in 1998, Frithjof Schuon ranks 88. Before him are Gulzarilal Nanda, Sōsuke Uno, César Baldaccini, Momoko Kōchi, Georgy Sviridov, and Bruno Munari. After him are Efim Geller, Christian Mortensen, Zbigniew Herbert, Birger Ruud, Shinichi Suzuki, and Nguyễn Văn Linh.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Frithjof Schuon ranks 196 out of 876. Before him are Adolphe Appia (1862), Ruth Dreifuss (1940), Josias Braun-Blanquet (1884), Alfred Escher (1819), Joanna of Pfirt (1300), and Marc Allégret (1900). After him are Daniel Peter (1836), Emil Brunner (1889), Ignazio Cassis (1961), Jakob Friedrich Ehrhart (1742), Roberto Di Matteo (1970), and Denis de Rougemont (1906).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Switzerland

Among philosophers born in Switzerland, Frithjof Schuon ranks 4. Before him are Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712), Benjamin Constant (1767), and Henri-Frédéric Amiel (1821). After him are Denis de Rougemont (1906), Jean Vanier (1928), Emer de Vattel (1714), Karl Ludwig von Haller (1768), and Tariq Ramadan (1962).

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