1575 - 1624
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, Jakob Böhme ranks 183 out of 1,081. Before 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.
1895 - 1973
HPI: 69.54
Rank: 177
1715 - 1771
HPI: 69.51
Rank: 178
1906 - 1995
HPI: 69.50
Rank: 179
135 BC - 51 BC
HPI: 69.49
Rank: 180
600 BC - 500 BC
HPI: 69.44
Rank: 181
280 BC - 232 BC
HPI: 69.21
Rank: 182
1575 - 1624
HPI: 69.20
Rank: 183
1849 - 1905
HPI: 69.20
Rank: 184
160 - 210
HPI: 69.13
Rank: 185
1602 - 1680
HPI: 69.12
Rank: 186
470 BC - 430 BC
HPI: 69.02
Rank: 187
500 - 510
HPI: 68.94
Rank: 188
1823 - 1892
HPI: 68.88
Rank: 189
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, 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 1. After 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.
1575 - 1642
HPI: 73.80
Rank: 1
1575 - 1642
HPI: 70.44
Rank: 2
1575 - 1624
HPI: 69.20
Rank: 3
1575 - 1641
HPI: 67.11
Rank: 4
1575 - 1617
HPI: 63.59
Rank: 5
1575 - 1612
HPI: 59.81
Rank: 6
1575 - 1621
HPI: 59.09
Rank: 7
1575 - 1650
HPI: 57.79
Rank: 8
1575 - 1616
HPI: 57.36
Rank: 9
1575 - 1582
HPI: 57.27
Rank: 10
1575 - 1640
HPI: 53.44
Rank: 11
1575 - 1655
HPI: 51.46
Rank: 12
1575 - 1624
HPI: 69.20
Rank: 1
1560 - 1624
HPI: 60.35
Rank: 2
1563 - 1624
HPI: 59.48
Rank: 3
1564 - 1624
HPI: 59.20
Rank: 4
1595 - 1624
HPI: 59.13
Rank: 5
1590 - 1624
HPI: 57.87
Rank: 6
1560 - 1624
HPI: 53.61
Rank: 7
1565 - 1624
HPI: 52.79
Rank: 8
1536 - 1624
HPI: 51.76
Rank: 9
1548 - 1624
HPI: 50.74
Rank: 10
1536 - 1624
HPI: 50.04
Rank: 11
1566 - 1624
HPI: 50.01
Rank: 12
Among people born in Poland, Jakob Böhme ranks 62 out of 1,454. Before 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).
1825 - 1864
HPI: 69.74
Rank: 56
1310 - 1370
HPI: 69.60
Rank: 57
1926 - 2016
HPI: 69.59
Rank: 58
967 - 1025
HPI: 69.55
Rank: 59
1854 - 1917
HPI: 69.30
Rank: 60
1861 - 1922
HPI: 69.24
Rank: 61
1575 - 1624
HPI: 69.20
Rank: 62
1852 - 1931
HPI: 69.10
Rank: 63
1905 - 1938
HPI: 69.10
Rank: 64
1862 - 1946
HPI: 69.09
Rank: 65
1467 - 1548
HPI: 69.05
Rank: 66
1878 - 1946
HPI: 68.81
Rank: 67
1906 - 1945
HPI: 68.81
Rank: 68
Among philosophers born in Poland, Jakob Böhme ranks 7. Before 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).
1788 - 1860
HPI: 84.74
Rank: 1
1744 - 1803
HPI: 74.46
Rank: 2
1925 - 2017
HPI: 72.45
Rank: 3
1874 - 1945
HPI: 70.18
Rank: 4
1679 - 1754
HPI: 70.12
Rank: 5
1768 - 1834
HPI: 69.85
Rank: 6
1575 - 1624
HPI: 69.20
Rank: 7
1512 - 1609
HPI: 66.40
Rank: 8
1901 - 1983
HPI: 63.98
Rank: 9
1902 - 1992
HPI: 61.85
Rank: 10
1886 - 1965
HPI: 61.27
Rank: 11
1863 - 1936
HPI: 61.02
Rank: 12
1927 - 2009
HPI: 60.43
Rank: 13