PHILOSOPHER

Hirata Atsutane

1776 - 1843

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Hirata Atsutane (平田 篤胤, 6 October 1776 – 2 November 1843) was a Japanese scholar, conventionally ranked as one of the Four Great Men of Kokugaku (nativist) studies, and one of the most significant theologians of the Shintō religion. His literary name was Ibukinoya (気吹舎), and his primary assumed name was Daigaku (大壑, Great Abyss)[1]. He also used the names Daikaku (大角), Gentaku (玄琢), and Genzui (玄瑞). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hirata Atsutane has received more than 74,618 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Hirata Atsutane is the 1,066th most popular philosopher (down from 1,032nd in 2019).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Hirata Atsutane ranks 1,066 out of 1,267. Before him are Patricia Churchland, Ioane Petritsi, Derek Prince, Abdel Rahman Badawi, Michael Oakeshott, and Alois Riehl. After him are Marsilius of Inghen, Georg Anton Friedrich Ast, Eudorus of Alexandria, Joseph Raz, Johann Eduard Erdmann, and Karl Ludwig von Haller.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1776, Hirata Atsutane ranks 33. Before him are Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck, Joseph Görres, Bernardino Drovetti, Charles-François Brisseau de Mirbel, Ignaz von Seyfried, and Amelia of Nassau-Weilburg. After him are Henri Dutrochet, Ignaz Schuppanzigh, François Marie Daudin, José Joaquín Fernández de Lizardi, Sydney, Lady Morgan, and Dániel Berzsenyi. Among people deceased in 1843, Hirata Atsutane ranks 26. Before him are Casimir Delavigne, John Trumbull, Julius Vincenz von Krombholz, Francis Scott Key, Kazim Rashti, and John Biscoe. After him are Sylvestre François Lacroix, Johann Natterer, Friedrich von Adelung, John Armstrong Jr., Washington Allston, and José María Queipo de Llano, 7th Count of Toreno.

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