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Jakob Friedrich Fries

1773 - 1843

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Jakob Friedrich Fries (German: [fʁiːs]; 23 August 1773 – 10 August 1843) was a German post-Kantian philosopher and mathematician. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jakob Friedrich Fries has received more than 72,480 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Jakob Friedrich Fries is the 811th most popular philosopher (up from 873rd in 2019), the 2,693rd most popular biography from Germany (up from 2,940th in 2019) and the 104th most popular German Philosopher.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Jakob Friedrich Fries ranks 811 out of 1,267Before him are Calcidius, Rambhadracharya, Frederick Copleston, Eric Hoffer, Herman of Carinthia, and Hecataeus of Abdera. After him are Konstantin Leontiev, Michael Baius, Jakob Lorber, Gautama Maharishi, Liu Yuxi, and Kazimierz Twardowski.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1773, Jakob Friedrich Fries ranks 28Before him are Hussein Dey, Wilhelm Heinrich Wackenroder, Luisa of Naples and Sicily, Étienne Maurice Gérard, Ioannis Kolettis, and Prince Louis Charles of Prussia. After him are Josef Jungmann, Yuri Lisyansky, Duchess Therese of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Sally Hemings, Frédéric Cuvier, and William Amherst, 1st Earl Amherst. Among people deceased in 1843, Jakob Friedrich Fries ranks 17Before him are Sequoyah, Peter Wittgenstein, Prince Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex, Robert Southey, Charles Macintosh, and Alexis Bouvard. After him are Ippolito Rosellini, Miguel Ricardo de Álava, Casimir Delavigne, John Trumbull, Julius Vincenz von Krombholz, and Francis Scott Key.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Jakob Friedrich Fries ranks 2,693 out of 7,253Before him are Hans Delbrück (1848), Bernhard Förster (1843), Christian Daniel Rauch (1777), Dorothea von Schlegel (1764), Gertrude of Süpplingenburg (1115), and Grand Duchess Maria Kirillovna of Russia (1907). After him are Adolphus Frederick III, Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (1686), John I, Duke of Saxony (1249), Frederick William, Margrave of Brandenburg-Schwedt (1700), Abraham Mignon (1640), Christian Ludwig Brehm (1787), and Joachim Ernst, Duke of Anhalt (1901).

Among PHILOSOPHERS In Germany

Among philosophers born in Germany, Jakob Friedrich Fries ranks 104Before him are Paul de Lagarde (1827), Friedrich Adolf Trendelenburg (1802), Albert of Saxony (1316), Friedrich Pollock (1894), Hans Robert Jauss (1921), and Leo Löwenthal (1900). After him are Karl Vogt (1817), Joseph Dietzgen (1828), Ferdinand Christian Baur (1792), Valentin Weigel (1533), Rudolf Stammler (1856), and Johann Heinrich Alsted (1588).