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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 174,004 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia. Henri-Frédéric Amiel is the 412th most popular philosopher (down from 370th in 2019), the 99th most popular biography from Switzerland (down from 89th 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 412 out of 1,081Before him are Paul Grice, Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, Linji Yixuan, Ban Zhao, Boetius of Dacia, and Alain de Lille. After him are Bernard of Chartres, Ernest Gellner, Vincent of Beauvais, Carl Gustav Hempel, Ernesto Laclau, and Leszek Kołakowski.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1821, Henri-Frédéric Amiel ranks 19Before him are Auguste Mariette, Luitpold, Prince Regent of Bavaria, Arthur Cayley, Nathan Bedford Forrest, Heinrich Barth, and Andrew Kim Taegon. After him are Nikolay Nekrasov, Wilhelm Tempel, Johann Josef Loschmidt, Giovanni Bottesini, Sebastian Kneipp, and Anita Garibaldi. Among people deceased in 1881, Henri-Frédéric Amiel ranks 17Before him are Auguste Mariette, Jenny von Westphalen, Henri Vieuxtemps, Nikolay Pirogov, Nikolai Rubinstein, and Empress Dowager Ci'an. After him are Theobald Boehm, Archduchess Clementina of Austria, Caroline Amalie of Augustenburg, Princess Elisabeth of Thurn and Taxis, Prince Frederick of the Netherlands, and Ludwig von Benedek.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Henri-Frédéric Amiel ranks 99 out of 876Before him are Jakob Steiner (1796), Bernardino Luini (1475), Louis Chevrolet (1878), Gianni Infantino (1970), Horace Bénédict de Saussure (1740), and Jost Bürgi (1552). After him are Nicholas of Flüe (1417), Hannes Meyer (1889), Augustin Pyramus de Candolle (1778), Germain Henri Hess (1802), Ludwig Binswanger (1881), and Gaspard Bauhin (1560).

Among PHILOSOPHERS In Switzerland

Among philosophers born in Switzerland, Henri-Frédéric Amiel ranks 3Before 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), Karl Ludwig von Haller (1768), and Tariq Ramadan (1962).