1866 - 1949
George Ivanovich Gurdjieff (c. 1867 – 29 October 1949) was a philosopher, mystic, spiritual teacher, composer, and "dance teacher". Gurdjieff taught that people are not conscious of themselves and thus live their lives in a state of hypnotic "waking sleep", but that it is possible to awaken to a higher state of consciousness and serve our purpose as human beings. The practice of his teaching has become known as "The Work" (connoting work on oneself) and is additional to the ways of the fakir, monk and yogi, so that his student P. D. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of George Gurdjieff has received more than 2,512,997 page views. His biography is available in 45 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 43 in 2019). George Gurdjieff is the 116th most popular philosopher (down from 111th in 2019), the most popular biography from Armenia and the most popular Armenian Philosopher.
George Gurdjieff is most famous for his book, "Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson."
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Among philosophers, George Gurdjieff ranks 116 out of 1,081. Before him are Meister Eckhart, Charles Fourier, Gilles Deleuze, John Venn, Bodhidharma, and Al-Tabari. After him are Emil Cioran, Johann Friedrich Herbart, Zygmunt Bauman, Antisthenes, Ramon Llull, and Hans-Georg Gadamer.
1260 - 1328
HPI: 73.00
Rank: 110
1772 - 1837
HPI: 72.99
Rank: 111
1925 - 1995
HPI: 72.99
Rank: 112
1834 - 1923
HPI: 72.95
Rank: 113
483 - 540
HPI: 72.92
Rank: 114
839 - 923
HPI: 72.89
Rank: 115
1866 - 1949
HPI: 72.81
Rank: 116
1911 - 1995
HPI: 72.73
Rank: 117
1776 - 1841
HPI: 72.52
Rank: 118
1925 - 2017
HPI: 72.45
Rank: 119
445 BC - 365 BC
HPI: 72.42
Rank: 120
1232 - 1316
HPI: 72.39
Rank: 121
1900 - 2002
HPI: 72.39
Rank: 122
Among people born in 1866, George Gurdjieff ranks 7. Before him are Wassily Kandinsky, Sun Yat-sen, Romain Rolland, Erik Satie, H. G. Wells, and Thomas Hunt Morgan. After him are Alfred Werner, Benedetto Croce, Beatrix Potter, Aby Warburg, Giovanni Agnelli, and Hans von Seeckt. Among people deceased in 1949, George Gurdjieff ranks 4. Before him are Maurice Maeterlinck, Richard Strauss, and Sigrid Undset. After him are Georgi Dimitrov, Edward Thorndike, Margaret Mitchell, Hassan al-Banna, Charles Ponzi, James Ensor, Louis II, Prince of Monaco, and Friedrich Bergius.
1866 - 1944
HPI: 80.56
Rank: 1
1866 - 1925
HPI: 79.18
Rank: 2
1866 - 1944
HPI: 78.73
Rank: 3
1866 - 1925
HPI: 74.99
Rank: 4
1866 - 1946
HPI: 74.42
Rank: 5
1866 - 1945
HPI: 72.90
Rank: 6
1866 - 1949
HPI: 72.81
Rank: 7
1866 - 1919
HPI: 70.70
Rank: 8
1866 - 1952
HPI: 67.30
Rank: 9
1866 - 1943
HPI: 66.38
Rank: 10
1866 - 1929
HPI: 65.86
Rank: 11
1866 - 1945
HPI: 65.84
Rank: 12
1866 - 1936
HPI: 65.20
Rank: 13
1862 - 1949
HPI: 77.38
Rank: 1
1864 - 1949
HPI: 76.76
Rank: 2
1882 - 1949
HPI: 72.92
Rank: 3
1866 - 1949
HPI: 72.81
Rank: 4
1882 - 1949
HPI: 71.73
Rank: 5
1874 - 1949
HPI: 71.41
Rank: 6
1900 - 1949
HPI: 69.93
Rank: 7
1906 - 1949
HPI: 67.50
Rank: 8
1882 - 1949
HPI: 67.35
Rank: 9
1860 - 1949
HPI: 67.11
Rank: 10
1870 - 1949
HPI: 67.04
Rank: 11
1884 - 1949
HPI: 66.30
Rank: 12
Among people born in Armenia, George Gurdjieff ranks 1 out of 147. After him are Tigranes the Great (-140), Gregory the Illuminator (257), Leo V the Armenian (775), Anastas Mikoyan (1895), Artem Mikoyan (1905), Tiridates III of Armenia (255), Armen Sarkissian (1953), Hayk (410), Najm ad-Din Ayyub (1100), Shirkuh (1100), and Khachatur Abovian (1805).
1866 - 1949
HPI: 72.81
Rank: 1
140 BC - 55 BC
HPI: 71.87
Rank: 2
257 - 331
HPI: 69.08
Rank: 3
775 - 820
HPI: 67.88
Rank: 4
1895 - 1978
HPI: 67.31
Rank: 5
1905 - 1970
HPI: 64.81
Rank: 6
255 - 330
HPI: 63.44
Rank: 7
1953 - Present
HPI: 62.57
Rank: 8
410 - 490
HPI: 62.03
Rank: 9
1100 - 1173
HPI: 61.89
Rank: 10
1100 - 1169
HPI: 60.98
Rank: 11
1805 - 1848
HPI: 60.70
Rank: 12
Among philosophers born in Armenia, George Gurdjieff ranks 1. After him are Anania Shirakatsi (610).