PHILOSOPHER

Jakob Böhme

1575 - 1624

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Jakob Böhme (; German: [ˈbøːmə]; 24 April 1575 – 17 November 1624) was a German philosopher, Christian mystic, and Lutheran Protestant theologian. He was considered an original thinker by many of his contemporaries within the Lutheran tradition, and his first book, commonly known as Aurora, caused a great scandal. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jakob Böhme has received more than 737,003 page views. His biography is available in 48 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 47 in 2019). Jakob Böhme is the 189th most popular philosopher (down from 183rd in 2019), the 74th most popular biography from Poland (down from 62nd in 2019) and the 7th most popular Polish Philosopher.

Jakob Böhme is most famous for his book, Aurora. He is also famous for being a mystic and alchemist.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Jakob Böhme ranks 189 out of 1,267. Before him are Marquis de Condorcet, Apollonius of Tyana, Moses Mendelssohn, Bernard Bolzano, Ibn Tufail, and Nicolas Malebranche. After him are Emmanuel Levinas, Pierre Gassendi, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Baltasar Gracián, Slavoj Žižek, and Diotima of Mantinea.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1575, Jakob Böhme ranks 3. Before him are Marie de' Medici, and Guido Reni. After him are Gwanghaegun of Joseon, Concino Concini, Christoph Scheiner, Anne Catherine of Brandenburg, Diego, Prince of Asturias, John Adolf, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp, Vittoria Aleotti, Antoine de Montchrestien, and Christina of Salm. Among people deceased in 1624, Jakob Böhme ranks 1. After him are Ahmad Sirhindi, Gaspard Bauhin, Gevherhan Sultan, Henry II, Duke of Lorraine, Dirck van Baburen, Charles of Austria, Bishop of Wroclaw, Ketevan the Martyr, Fukushima Masanori, Marco Antonio de Dominis, Willem Pieterszoon Buytewech, and Juan de Mariana.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Jakob Böhme ranks 74 out of 1,694. Before him are Władysław III of Poland (1424), Erich von Falkenhayn (1861), Walther Nernst (1864), Gustav Fechner (1801), Marie Walewska (1786), and Anna Jagiellon (1523). After him are Ladislaus I of Hungary (1046), Werner von Blomberg (1878), Tamara de Lempicka (1898), Casimir IV Jagiellon (1427), Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906), and Kurt Alder (1902).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Poland

Among philosophers born in Poland, Jakob Böhme ranks 7. Before him are Arthur Schopenhauer (1788), Johann Gottfried Herder (1744), Ernst Cassirer (1874), Zygmunt Bauman (1925), Christian Wolff (1679), and Friedrich Schleiermacher (1768). After him are Judah Loew ben Bezalel (1512), Alfred Tarski (1901), Günther Anders (1902), Paul Tillich (1886), Heinrich Rickert (1863), and Leszek Kołakowski (1927).

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