PHILOSOPHER

Hermann Samuel Reimarus

1694 - 1768

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Hermann Samuel Reimarus (22 December 1694, Hamburg – 1 March 1768, Hamburg), was a German philosopher and writer of the Enlightenment who is remembered for his Deism, the doctrine that human reason can arrive at a knowledge of God and ethics from a study of nature and our own internal reality, thus eliminating the need for religions based on revelation. He denied the supernatural origin of Christianity, and was the first influential critic to investigate the historical Jesus. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hermann Samuel Reimarus has received more than 110,881 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Hermann Samuel Reimarus is the 614th most popular philosopher (up from 651st in 2019), the 1,756th most popular biography from Germany (up from 1,960th in 2019) and the 81st most popular German Philosopher.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Hermann Samuel Reimarus ranks 614 out of 1,267Before him are Al-Taftazani, Jean Hyppolite, Antonio Rosmini, Roman Ingarden, Constantin von Tischendorf, and R. G. Collingwood. After him are Berengar of Tours, Reinhold Niebuhr, Kuno Fischer, Marpa Lotsawa, Dharmakirti, and Vilém Flusser.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1694, Hermann Samuel Reimarus ranks 10Before him are Francis Hutcheson, Louis-Claude Daquin, Leonardo Leo, Charlotte Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Georg Brandt, and Paul of the Cross. After him are Theodore of Corsica, Henry Pelham, Leopold, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen, Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, Johan Helmich Roman, and Count Palatine Joseph Charles of Sulzbach. Among people deceased in 1768, Hermann Samuel Reimarus ranks 8Before him are Canaletto, Johann Joachim Winckelmann, Laurence Sterne, Nicola Porpora, Georg Brandt, and Joseph-Nicolas Delisle. After him are Francesco Maria Veracini, Louis Alexandre, Prince of Lamballe, Louis VIII, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt, Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle, François de Cuvilliés, and Michel Blavet.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Hermann Samuel Reimarus ranks 1,756 out of 7,253Before him are Friedrich von Flotow (1812), Sophie of Thuringia, Duchess of Brabant (1224), Josias, Hereditary Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont (1896), Gretl Braun (1915), Marianne Brandt (1893), and Caspar Friedrich Wolff (1735). After him are Gotthelf Fischer von Waldheim (1771), Eberhard III, Duke of Württemberg (1614), Rupert II, Elector Palatine (1325), Princess Louise Amelie of Baden (1811), Ernst Gräfenberg (1881), and Hans Schäfer (1927).

Among PHILOSOPHERS In Germany

Among philosophers born in Germany, Hermann Samuel Reimarus ranks 81Before him are Johann Bernhard Basedow (1723), Ludwig Büchner (1824), Conrad Celtes (1459), Karl Christian Friedrich Krause (1781), Hans Albert (1921), and Constantin von Tischendorf (1815). After him are Werner Jaeger (1888), Theodor Lipps (1851), Philipp Mainländer (1841), Ernst Nolte (1923), Eugen Fink (1905), and Friedrich Albert Lange (1828).