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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 677,771 page views. His biography is available in 47 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 45 in 2019). Jakob Böhme is the 183rd most popular philosopher (down from 152nd in 2019), the 62nd most popular biography from Poland (down from 38th 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 183 out of 1,081Before him are Max Horkheimer, Claude Adrien Helvétius, Emmanuel Levinas, Posidonius, Hippasus, and Han Fei. After him are Muhammad Abduh, Sextus Empiricus, Athanasius Kircher, Melissus of Samos, Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, and Ernest Renan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1575, Jakob Böhme ranks 3Before him are Marie de' Medici and Guido Reni. After him are Gwanghaegun of Joseon, Concino Concini, Anne Catherine of Brandenburg, Antoine de Montchrestien, Christoph Scheiner, John Adolf, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp, Diego, Prince of Asturias, Vittoria Aleotti, and Francesco Molin. Among people deceased in 1624, Jakob Böhme ranks 1After him are Gaspard Bauhin, Henry II, Duke of Lorraine, Ahmad Sirhindi, Dirck van Baburen, Charles of Austria, Bishop of Wroclaw, Marco Antonio de Dominis, Ketevan the Martyr, Juan de Mariana, Sebastián Vizcaíno, Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Nottingham, and Francesco Contarini.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Jakob Böhme ranks 62 out of 1,454Before him are Ferdinand Lassalle (1825), Casimir III the Great (1310), Andrzej Wajda (1926), Bolesław I the Brave (967), Emil von Behring (1854), and Erich von Falkenhayn (1861). After him are Albert A. Michelson (1852), Faustina Kowalska (1905), Gerhart Hauptmann (1862), Sigismund I the Old (1467), Werner von Blomberg (1878), and Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906).

Among PHILOSOPHERS In Poland

Among philosophers born in Poland, Jakob Böhme ranks 7Before him are Arthur Schopenhauer (1788), Johann Gottfried Herder (1744), Zygmunt Bauman (1925), Ernst Cassirer (1874), 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).