1884 - 1962
Gaston Bachelard (; French: [baʃlaʁ]; 27 June 1884 – 16 October 1962) was a French philosopher. He made contributions in the fields of poetics and the philosophy of science. To the latter, he introduced the concepts of epistemological obstacle and epistemological break (obstacle épistémologique and rupture épistémologique). Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gaston Bachelard has received more than 508,525 page views. His biography is available in 39 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 38 in 2019). Gaston Bachelard is the 231st most popular philosopher (down from 220th in 2019), the 563rd most popular biography from France (down from 509th in 2019) and the 31st most popular French Philosopher.
Gaston Bachelard is most famous for his book The Poetics of Space, which argues that the spaces we inhabit and the objects we use affect our thoughts and emotions.
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Among philosophers, Gaston Bachelard ranks 231 out of 1,081. Before him are Giorgio Agamben, Milarepa, Bernard Bolzano, Bayazid Bastami, Imre Lakatos, and Cratylus. After him are Pelagius, Benjamin Constant, Michael Psellos, Al-Jahiz, Josef Breuer, and Iamblichus.
1942 - Present
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1052 - 1135
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1781 - 1848
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804 - 874
HPI: 66.99
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1922 - 1974
HPI: 66.95
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500 BC - Present
HPI: 66.89
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1884 - 1962
HPI: 66.84
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360 - 420
HPI: 66.67
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1767 - 1830
HPI: 66.62
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1018 - 1078
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775 - 868
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1842 - 1925
HPI: 66.53
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245 - 330
HPI: 66.53
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Among people born in 1884, Gaston Bachelard ranks 16. Before him are Édouard Daladier, Peter Debye, Max Brod, Franz Halder, Theodor Heuss, and Theodor Svedberg. After him are Auguste Piccard, Walther von Reichenau, Hermann Rorschach, Friedrich Bergius, Otto Fritz Meyerhof, and Yevgeny Zamyatin. Among people deceased in 1962, Gaston Bachelard ranks 13. Before him are Karen Blixen, Wilhelmina of the Netherlands, Lucky Luciano, Georges Bataille, Yves Klein, and Arthur Compton. After him are Auguste Piccard, Princess Marie Bonaparte, Vasily Stalin, Natalia Goncharova, Hans Luther, and Fritz Kreisler.
1884 - 1970
HPI: 70.53
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1884 - 1966
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1884 - 1968
HPI: 68.74
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1884 - 1972
HPI: 68.00
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1884 - 1963
HPI: 67.84
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1884 - 1971
HPI: 67.67
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1884 - 1962
HPI: 66.84
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1884 - 1962
HPI: 66.79
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1884 - 1942
HPI: 66.71
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1884 - 1922
HPI: 66.49
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1884 - 1949
HPI: 66.30
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1884 - 1951
HPI: 65.87
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1884 - 1937
HPI: 65.67
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1885 - 1962
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1880 - 1962
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1897 - 1962
HPI: 70.89
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1897 - 1962
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1928 - 1962
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1892 - 1962
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1884 - 1962
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1884 - 1962
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1882 - 1962
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1921 - 1962
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1881 - 1962
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1879 - 1962
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1875 - 1962
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Among people born in France, Gaston Bachelard ranks 563 out of 6,011. Before him are Childebert I (497), Antipope Clement VII (1342), Johann Heinrich Lambert (1728), Ansgar (801), Jacques Hébert (1757), and Marie Tussaud (1761). After him are Paul Sabatier (1854), Jean-Jacques Annaud (1943), Boris Vian (1920), Jules Michelet (1798), Richard Clayderman (1953), and Henrietta Maria of France (1609).
497 - 558
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1342 - 1394
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1728 - 1777
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801 - 865
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1757 - 1794
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1761 - 1850
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1884 - 1962
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1854 - 1941
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1943 - Present
HPI: 66.82
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1920 - 1959
HPI: 66.78
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1798 - 1874
HPI: 66.73
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1953 - Present
HPI: 66.73
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1609 - 1669
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Among philosophers born in France, Gaston Bachelard ranks 31. Before him are Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881), Marquis de Condorcet (1743), Étienne Bonnot de Condillac (1714), Gabriel Marcel (1889), Jean-François Lyotard (1924), and Joseph de Maistre (1753). After him are Guy Debord (1931), François Fénelon (1651), Jacques Maritain (1882), Nicole Oresme (1323), Roger Garaudy (1913), and Georges Sorel (1847).
1881 - 1955
HPI: 68.36
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1743 - 1794
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1714 - 1780
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1889 - 1973
HPI: 68.00
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1924 - 1998
HPI: 67.90
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1753 - 1821
HPI: 67.37
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1884 - 1962
HPI: 66.84
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1931 - 1994
HPI: 66.23
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1651 - 1715
HPI: 66.22
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1882 - 1973
HPI: 65.82
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1323 - 1382
HPI: 65.24
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1913 - 2012
HPI: 65.14
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1847 - 1922
HPI: 64.87
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