PHILOSOPHER

Gabriel Biel

1418 - 1495

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Gabriel Biel (German: [biːl]; 1420 to 1425 – 7 December 1495) was a German scholastic philosopher and member of the Canons Regular of the Congregation of Windesheim, who were the clerical counterpart to the Brethren of the Common Life. Biel was born in Speyer and died in Einsiedel near Tübingen. In 1432 he was ordained to the priesthood and entered Heidelberg University to obtain a baccalaureate. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gabriel Biel has received more than 70,603 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Gabriel Biel is the 944th most popular philosopher (down from 923rd in 2019), the 3,398th most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,233rd in 2019) and the 119th most popular German Philosopher.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Gabriel Biel ranks 944 out of 1,267. Before him are Paul Janet, Richard Swinburne, Debendranath Tagore, Robert Anton Wilson, Samuel Alexander, and Ibrahim al-Nazzam. After him are Olavo de Carvalho, Rüdiger Safranski, Firmin Abauzit, Fernando Savater, Lacydes of Cyrene, and Evald Ilyenkov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1418, Gabriel Biel ranks 9. Before him are Anne of Cyprus, John II of Cyprus, Agostino di Duccio, Eric II, Duke of Pomerania, Peter II, Duke of Brittany, and Frederick II, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg. After him are Catherine Karlsdotter, and Isotta Nogarola. Among people deceased in 1495, Gabriel Biel ranks 16. Before him are Vlad Călugărul, Magdalena of France, Elizabeth Tudor, Jasper Tudor, Pedro González de Mendoza, and Frederick III, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Gabriel Biel ranks 3,398 out of 7,253. Before him are Georg, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg (1796), Prince Frederick of Württemberg (1808), Klaus Wowereit (1953), Robert Volkmann (1815), Princess Dorothea Wilhelmine of Saxe-Zeitz (1691), and Jan Ullrich (1973). After him are Wilhelm Roux (1850), Werner Voss (1897), Erich Weinert (1890), Heinrich Barkhausen (1881), Rüdiger Safranski (1945), and Gustav Adolph, Duke of Mecklenburg-Güstrow (1633).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Germany

Among philosophers born in Germany, Gabriel Biel ranks 119. Before him are Ernst von Glasersfeld (1917), Arthur Oncken Lovejoy (1873), Johannes Agricola (1494), Erich Neumann (1905), Eberhard August Wilhelm von Zimmermann (1743), and Karl Groos (1861). After him are Rüdiger Safranski (1945), Gottlob Ernst Schulze (1761), Heinrich Khunrath (1560), Friedrich Paulsen (1846), Robert Spaemann (1927), and Hermann Usener (1834).

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