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Jan Patočka

1907 - 1977

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Jan Patočka (Czech pronunciation: [ˈpatot͡ʃka]; 1 June 1907 – 13 March 1977) was a Czech philosopher. Having studied in Prague, Paris, Berlin, and Freiburg, he was one of the last pupils of Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger. In Freiburg he also developed a lifelong philosophical friendship with Husserl's assistant Eugen Fink. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jan Patočka has received more than 133,145 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia. Jan Patočka is the 545th most popular philosopher (up from 586th in 2019), the 182nd most popular biography from Czechia (up from 200th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Czech Philosopher.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Jan Patočka ranks 545 out of 1,267. Before him are Paul Grice, Karl Korsch, Chaïm Perelman, Axel Honneth, Kenneth Waltz, and Al-Baydawi. After him are Myia, Roger Scruton, Jacques Ellul, Harriet Taylor Mill, Crates of Athens, and Narayana Guru.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1907, Jan Patočka ranks 79. Before him are Mahadevi Varma, Sisavang Vatthana, Trường Chinh, Nicolaus von Below, Ko Takamoro, and Leonor Fini. After him are Takeo Wakabayashi, James Meade, Abd al-Qadir al-Husayni, Helmuth James von Moltke, René Char, and Cab Calloway. Among people deceased in 1977, Jan Patočka ranks 49. Before him are Naum Gabo, Modibo Keïta, Kamal Jumblatt, Lee Miller, Sepp Herberger, and Stephen Boyd. After him are Leopold Stokowski, Princess Margaretha of Sweden, Bruno Streckenbach, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Paul Desmond, and Hamida Djandoubi.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Jan Patočka ranks 182 out of 1,200. Before him are Archduke Eugen of Austria (1863), Josef Koudelka (1938), Jan Ladislav Dussek (1760), Blanche of Valois (1316), Ottokar Czernin (1872), and Catherine of Bohemia (1342). After him are Carl von Rokitansky (1804), Libuše Šafránková (1953), Tomáš Baťa (1876), Margaret of Bohemia, Queen of Hungary (1335), Guido Adler (1855), and Prince Felix of Schwarzenberg (1800).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Czechia

Among philosophers born in Czechia, Jan Patočka ranks 7. Before him are John Amos Comenius (1592), Edmund Husserl (1859), Hans Kelsen (1881), Karl Kautsky (1854), Bernard Bolzano (1781), and Jerome of Prague (1379). After him are Vilém Flusser (1920), Karel Kosík (1926), Theodor Gomperz (1832), František Tomášek (1899), Tomáš Halík (1948), and Herbert Feigl (1902).

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