PHILOSOPHER

Henri de Saint-Simon

1760 - 1825

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Claude Henri de Rouvroy, Comte de Saint-Simon (17 October 1760 – 19 May 1825), better known as Henri de Saint-Simon (French: [ɑ̃ʁi də sɛ̃ simɔ̃]), was a French political, economic and socialist theorist and businessman whose thought had a substantial influence on politics, economics, sociology and the philosophy of science. He was a younger relative of the famous memoirist the Duc de Saint-Simon. Saint-Simon created a political and economic ideology known as Saint-Simonianism that claimed that the needs of an industrial class, which he also referred to as the working class, needed to be recognized and fulfilled to have an effective society and an efficient economy. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Henri de Saint-Simon has received more than 627,257 page views. His biography is available in 54 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 53 in 2019). Henri de Saint-Simon is the 115th most popular philosopher (down from 103rd in 2019), the 233rd most popular biography from France (down from 202nd in 2019) and the 12th most popular French Philosopher.

Henri de Saint-Simon is most famous for his ideas of technocracy, where the economy would be controlled by a select group of scientists and engineers.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Henri de Saint-Simon ranks 115 out of 1,267. Before him are Rudolf Christoph Eucken, Tertullian, Gilles Deleuze, Bodhidharma, Antisthenes, and William of Ockham. After him are Pyrrho, Johann Friedrich Herbart, Simone Weil, Chanakya, Tommaso Campanella, and Mozi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1760, Henri de Saint-Simon ranks 3. Before him are Hokusai, and Pope Leo XII. After him are Luigi Cherubini, Camille Desmoulins, Jiaqing Emperor, Alexandre de Beauharnais, François-Noël Babeuf, Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle, Johan Gadolin, August Neidhardt von Gneisenau, and Jan Ladislav Dussek. Among people deceased in 1825, Henri de Saint-Simon ranks 4. Before him are Alexander I of Russia, Jacques-Louis David, and Antonio Salieri. After him are Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria, Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies, Eli Whitney, Pauline Bonaparte, Jean Paul, Henry Fuseli, Dmitry Bortniansky, and Laskarina Bouboulina.

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In France

Among people born in France, Henri de Saint-Simon ranks 233 out of 6,770. Before him are Pope Urban VI (1318), Philip V of France (1293), Christian Dior (1905), Antoine Meillet (1866), John II of France (1319), and Alfred Sisley (1839). After him are Charles the Simple (879), Jean-Baptiste Colbert (1619), Joseph Fouché (1759), Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac (1778), Jeanne Calment (1875), and Philippe I, Duke of Orléans (1640).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In France

Among philosophers born in France, Henri de Saint-Simon ranks 12. Before him are Michel de Montaigne (1533), Peter Abelard (1079), Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (1809), Jean Bodin (1530), Roland Barthes (1915), and Gilles Deleuze (1925). After him are Simone Weil (1909), Charles Fourier (1772), Jean Buridan (1295), Jean Baudrillard (1929), Claude Adrien Helvétius (1715), and Ernest Renan (1823).

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