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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 556,230 page views. His biography is available in 53 different languages on Wikipedia. Henri de Saint-Simon is the 103rd most popular philosopher (up from 126th in 2019), the 202nd most popular biography from France (up from 245th in 2019) and the 11th 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 103 out of 1,081Before him are Zhuang Zhou, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, Roland Barthes, Ibn Taymiyyah, Theophrastus, and Wilhelm von Humboldt. After him are Jacques Derrida, Aristippus, Joseph Priestley, Friedrich Fröbel, Philo, and Pyrrho.

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Contemporaries

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

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In France

Among people born in France, Henri de Saint-Simon ranks 202 out of 6,011Before him are Jean Racine (1639), Georges Pompidou (1911), Jacques de Molay (1243), Pope Clement VI (1291), Geoffrey Plantagenet, Count of Anjou (1113), and François Truffaut (1932). After him are Henri Rousseau (1844), Léon Foucault (1819), Richard II of England (1367), Nicéphore Niépce (1765), Georges Méliès (1861), and Charles IV of France (1294).

Among PHILOSOPHERS In France

Among philosophers born in France, Henri de Saint-Simon ranks 11Before him are Michel Foucault (1926), Henri Bergson (1859), Peter Abelard (1079), Jean Bodin (1530), Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (1809), and Roland Barthes (1915). After him are Charles Fourier (1772), Gilles Deleuze (1925), Simone Weil (1909), Jean Baudrillard (1929), Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908), and Paul Ricœur (1913).