PHILOSOPHER

Jean Bodin

1530 - 1596

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Jean Bodin (French: [ʒɑ̃ bɔdɛ̃]; c. 1530 – 1596) was a French jurist and political philosopher, member of the Parlement of Paris and professor of law in Toulouse. Bodin lived during the aftermath of the Protestant Reformation and wrote against the background of religious conflict in France. He seemed to be a nominal Catholic throughout his life but was critical of papal authority over governments and there was evidence he may have converted to Protestantism during his time in Geneva. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jean Bodin has received more than 653,883 page views. His biography is available in 52 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 51 in 2019). Jean Bodin is the 95th most popular philosopher (down from 81st in 2019), the 173rd most popular biography from France (down from 149th in 2019) and the 9th most popular French Philosopher.

Jean Bodin is most famous for his book, The Six Books of the Republic, which is a treatise on the best form of government.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Jean Bodin ranks 95 out of 1,267. Before him are Johann Gottfried Herder, Ibn Taymiyyah, Leucippus, Walter Benjamin, Zhuang Zhou, and Pierre-Joseph Proudhon. After him are Boethius, Jeremy Bentham, George Gurdjieff, Roger Bacon, Anaximenes of Miletus, and Al-Tabari.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1530, Jean Bodin ranks 2. Before him is Ivan the Terrible. After him are Étienne de La Boétie, Uesugi Kenshin, Yasuke, Jean Nicot, Ruy López de Segura, Anastasia Romanovna, Louis, Prince of Condé, Jan Kochanowski, Johann Wilhelm, Duke of Saxe-Weimar, and Christopher Báthory. Among people deceased in 1596, Jean Bodin ranks 2. Before him is Francis Drake. After him are Anna Jagiellon, Koca Sinan Pasha, Blaise de Vigenère, George I, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt, Pellegrino Tibaldi, Hamnet Shakespeare, Giaches de Wert, Pierre Pithou, and George Peele.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jean Bodin ranks 173 out of 6,770. Before him are Henry Cavendish (1731), Jean Racine (1639), Tacitus (54), Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683), Edward IV of England (1442), and Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (1809). After him are Pope Urban V (1310), Annie Ernaux (1940), Louis VII of France (1120), Bernadette Soubirous (1844), Louis VIII of France (1187), and Camille Saint-Saëns (1835).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In France

Among philosophers born in France, Jean Bodin ranks 9. Before him are Auguste Comte (1798), Michel Foucault (1926), Henri Bergson (1859), Michel de Montaigne (1533), Peter Abelard (1079), and Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (1809). After him are Roland Barthes (1915), Gilles Deleuze (1925), Henri de Saint-Simon (1760), Simone Weil (1909), Charles Fourier (1772), and Jean Buridan (1295).

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