PHILOSOPHER

Jean-Marie Guyau

1854 - 1888

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Jean-Marie Guyau (28 October 1854 – 31 March 1888) was a French philosopher and poet. Guyau was inspired by the philosophies of Epicurus, Epictetus, Plato, Immanuel Kant, Herbert Spencer, and Alfred Fouillée, and the poetry and literature of Pierre Corneille, Victor Hugo, and Alfred de Musset. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jean-Marie Guyau has received more than 60,273 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Jean-Marie Guyau is the 676th most popular philosopher (up from 687th in 2019), the 2,136th most popular biography from France (up from 2,230th in 2019) and the 88th most popular French Philosopher.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Jean-Marie Guyau ranks 676 out of 1,267Before him are Yang Xiong, Pierre Hadot, Hossein Nasr, Cheng Yi, Julius Pollux, and Lucien Goldmann. After him are Wang Bi, Amalric of Bena, Rudolph Goclenius, Anania Shirakatsi, Maximus of Tyre, and Zhang Zai.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1854, Jean-Marie Guyau ranks 40Before him are Moritz Moszkowski, Hermann Kövess von Kövessháza, Hertha Ayrton, Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers, Friedrich Alfred Krupp, and Charles Webster Leadbeater. After him are Thomas R. Marshall, Jacek Malczewski, Lady Randolph Churchill, John Philip Sousa, Grand Duchess Vera Konstantinovna of Russia, and Stefan Stambolov. Among people deceased in 1888, Jean-Marie Guyau ranks 30Before him are Asa Gray, Annie Chapman, Namık Kemal, Ludvig Nobel, Elizabeth Stride, and Edward Lear. After him are Princess Helena of Nassau, Charles Cros, Catherine Eddowes, Vsevolod Garshin, Henri Herz, and Eugène Marin Labiche.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jean-Marie Guyau ranks 2,136 out of 6,770Before him are Claude Berri (1934), François de Vendôme, duc de Beaufort (1616), Christian II, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld (1637), Jacques Doillon (1944), Alexandre Ribot (1842), and Octave Lapize (1887). After him are Alexandre Guilmant (1837), François de Charette (1763), Marie Bracquemond (1840), Pierre Clémenti (1942), Martine Carol (1920), and Yvonne de Gaulle (1900).

Among PHILOSOPHERS In France

Among philosophers born in France, Jean-Marie Guyau ranks 88Before him are Yves Bonnefoy (1923), Pierre Charron (1541), Louis Lavelle (1883), Paul Virilio (1932), Jean Wahl (1888), and Pierre Hadot (1922). After him are Amalric of Bena (1150), Étienne-Gabriel Morelly (1717), Julien Benda (1867), Fulbert of Chartres (960), Émile Boutroux (1845), and Gilbert de la Porrée (1070).