PHILOSOPHER

Jaime Balmes

1810 - 1848

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Jaime Luciano Balmes y Urpiá (Catalan: Jaume Llucià Antoni Balmes i Urpià; 28 August 1810 – 9 July 1848) was a Spanish philosopher, theologian, Catholic apologist, sociologist and political writer. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jaime Balmes has received more than 96,367 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Jaime Balmes is the 1,031st most popular philosopher, the 1,247th most popular biography from Spain and the 33rd most popular Spanish Philosopher.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Jaime Balmes ranks 1,031 out of 1,267Before him are John Hick, Robert Spaemann, Hermann Usener, Josiah Royce, August Böckh, and Idomeneus of Lampsacus. After him are Sopater of Apamea, Paul Deussen, Cercidas, Alexander Men, Ecphantus the Pythagorean, and Mary Daly.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1810, Jaime Balmes ranks 65Before him are Lorenzo Batlle y Grau, Eugène Belgrand, Leonhard Graf von Blumenthal, Ferdinand Freiligrath, Grigory Gagarin, and Ernest Courtot de Cissey. After him are Miklós Barabás, Jules Malou, Philip Henry Gosse, Jean Louis Armand de Quatrefages de Bréau, Eliza McCardle Johnson, and Fritz Reuter. Among people deceased in 1848, Jaime Balmes ranks 48Before him are Gabriel Bibron, Petrobey Mavromichalis, Ludwig Leichhardt, Yevhen Hrebinka, Sarah Fuller Flower Adams, and Martinus Rørbye. After him are Francis Crozier, Jacob Sturm, Steen Steensen Blicher, George W. Campbell, Vasily Stasov, and Felix Lichnowsky.

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In Spain

Among people born in Spain, Jaime Balmes ranks 1,247 out of 3,355Before him are Ramón Encinas (1893), Abu al-Abbas al-Nabati (1166), Agustín Sauto Arana (1908), Fernando de Herrera (1534), Brahim Díaz (1999), and Alejandro Sanz (1968). After him are Rosa Maria Sardà (1941), Sergi Bruguera (1971), Chendo (1961), Joaquín Almunia (1948), Beatrice of Navarre, Countess of La Marche (1392), and Sergi López (1965).

Among PHILOSOPHERS In Spain

Among philosophers born in Spain, Jaime Balmes ranks 33Before him are Bahya ibn Paquda (1050), Lubna of Córdoba (922), Dominicus Gundissalinus (1115), Benito Jerónimo Feijóo y Montenegro (1676), Ramiro Ledesma Ramos (1905), and Fernando Savater (1947). After him are Gómez Pereira (1500), and Julián Marías (1914).