PHILOSOPHER

Guillaume Budé

1467 - 1540

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Guillaume Budé (French: [ɡijom byde]; Latinized as Guilielmus Budaeus; January 26, 1467 – August 20, 1540) was a French scholar and humanist. He was involved in the founding of Collegium Trilingue, which later became the Collège de France. Budé was also the first keeper of the royal library at the Palace of Fontainebleau, which was later moved to Paris, where it became the Bibliothèque nationale de France. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Guillaume Budé has received more than 93,754 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Guillaume Budé is the 505th most popular philosopher (up from 514th in 2019), the 1,514th most popular biography from France (up from 1,617th in 2019) and the 69th most popular French Philosopher.

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  • 30

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.06

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  • 2.75

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Over the past year Guillaume Budé has had the most page views in the with 18,335 views, followed by English (9,714), and Spanish (3,423). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Swedish (46.89%), Greek (28.88%), and Asturian (27.27%)

Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Guillaume Budé ranks 505 out of 1,267. Before him are Zengzi, Gaetano Mosca, Dicaearchus, Yi I, Zhang Daoling, and Karl Löwith. After him are Antony Flew, Philo of Larissa, Alasdair MacIntyre, Nezahualcoyotl, Shantideva, and Yuri Lotman.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1467, Guillaume Budé ranks 8. Before him are Sigismund I the Old, Francis Phoebus of Navarre, Ferdinand II of Naples, Hadım Suleiman Pasha, Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio, and Giovanni il Popolano. After him are Şehzade Korkut, Andrea Sansovino, Charles II, Duke of Guelders, Ramón de Cardona, Radu IV the Great, and John Colet. Among people deceased in 1540, Guillaume Budé ranks 10. Before him are Angela Merici, Rosso Fiorentino, Francesco Guicciardini, Juan Luis Vives, Tristão da Cunha, and Federico II Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua. After him are Joos van Cleve, Tomé Pires, Barthel Beham, Duarte, Duke of Guimarães, Fernão de Loronha, and Francisco de Ulloa.

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In France

Among people born in France, Guillaume Budé ranks 1,514 out of 6,770. Before him are Paul Gachet (1828), Fredegund (545), Humbert of Silva Candida (1000), Henri Giffard (1825), Gustave Charpentier (1860), and Henri Cartan (1904). After him are Blaise de Vigenère (1523), Odo of Cluny (878), Maximilien de Béthune, Duke of Sully (1560), Adhemar of Le Puy (1055), Hubert Robert (1733), and Amadeus VII, Count of Savoy (1360).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In France

Among philosophers born in France, Guillaume Budé ranks 69. Before him are Michel Serres (1930), Victor Cousin (1792), Michel de Certeau (1925), Vincent of Beauvais (1190), Jean-Luc Nancy (1940), and Pierre Duhem (1861). After him are Louis Couturat (1868), William of Champeaux (1070), Émile Chartier (1868), Henry Corbin (1903), Georges Canguilhem (1904), and Jacques Ellul (1912).

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