PHILOSOPHER

Henri-Frédéric Amiel

1821 - 1881

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Henri Frédéric Amiel (French pronunciation: [ɑ̃ʁi fʁedeʁik amjɛl]; 27 September 1821 – 11 May 1881) was a Swiss moral philosopher, poet, and critic. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Henri-Frédéric Amiel has received more than 185,678 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Henri-Frédéric Amiel is the 399th most popular philosopher (up from 412th in 2019), the 104th most popular biography from Switzerland (down from 99th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Swiss Philosopher.

Henri-Frédéric Amiel was a Swiss philosopher and poet. He is most famous for his journal, which he wrote for more than 30 years.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Henri-Frédéric Amiel ranks 399 out of 1,267. Before him are Damascius, Alain de Lille, Kapila, Étienne Cabet, Boetius of Dacia, and Ahmad Sirhindi. After him are Archelaus, Timon of Phlius, Chantal Mouffe, Leszek Kołakowski, Christian Thomasius, and Eubulides.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1821, Henri-Frédéric Amiel ranks 16. Before him are Luitpold, Prince Regent of Bavaria, Louis Vuitton, Richard Francis Burton, Pauline Viardot, Johann Josef Loschmidt, and Arthur Cayley. After him are Andrew Kim Taegon, Anita Garibaldi, Nikolay Nekrasov, Wilhelm Tempel, Heinrich Barth, and Nathan Bedford Forrest. Among people deceased in 1881, Henri-Frédéric Amiel ranks 15. Before him are Jenny von Westphalen, Louis Auguste Blanqui, Thomas Carlyle, Auguste Mariette, Henri Vieuxtemps, and Nikolay Pirogov. After him are Nikolai Rubinstein, Empress Dowager Ci'an, Caroline Amalie of Augustenburg, Theobald Boehm, Hermann Lotze, and Pierre Napoléon Bonaparte.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Henri-Frédéric Amiel ranks 104 out of 1,015. Before him are Louis, Duke of Savoy (1413), Nicholas of Flüe (1417), Germain Henri Hess (1802), Louis Chevrolet (1878), Albert Anker (1831), and Henri Guisan (1874). After him are Gaspard Bauhin (1560), Hannes Meyer (1889), Jean Charles Léonard de Sismondi (1773), Ludwig Binswanger (1881), Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz (1878), and Rolf M. Zinkernagel (1944).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Switzerland

Among philosophers born in Switzerland, Henri-Frédéric Amiel ranks 3. Before him are Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712), and Benjamin Constant (1767). After him are Frithjof Schuon (1907), Denis de Rougemont (1906), Jean Vanier (1928), Emer de Vattel (1714), Tariq Ramadan (1962), and Karl Ludwig von Haller (1768).

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