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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 627,276 page views. His biography is available in 51 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 49 in 2019). Jean Bodin is the 81st most popular philosopher (up from 86th in 2019), the 149th most popular biography from France (up from 161st in 2019) and the 8th 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 81 out of 1,081. Before him are Jürgen Habermas, Ibn Arabi, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling, Jeremy Bentham, Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, and Roger Bacon. After him are Nicholas of Cusa, Nagarjuna, Gregory of Nazianzus, Carl von Clausewitz, Al-Kindi, and Athanasius of Alexandria.

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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, Anastasia Romanovna, Jean Nicot, Yasuke, Louis, Prince of Condé, Ruy López de Segura, Johann Wilhelm, Duke of Saxe-Weimar, Jan Kochanowski, 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, Hamnet Shakespeare, Pellegrino Tibaldi, Giaches de Wert, Pierre Pithou, and George Peele.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jean Bodin ranks 149 out of 6,011. Before him are Pierre Bourdieu (1930), Joachim Murat (1767), François Mitterrand (1916), Georges Seurat (1859), Philippe I, Duke of Orléans (1640), and Charles V of France (1338). After him are Christian Dior (1905), Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord (1754), Évariste Galois (1811), Pope Sylvester II (938), Jean-François Millet (1814), and Guy de Maupassant (1850).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In France

Among philosophers born in France, Jean Bodin ranks 8. Before him are Montesquieu (1689), Auguste Comte (1798), Michel de Montaigne (1533), Michel Foucault (1926), Henri Bergson (1859), and Peter Abelard (1079). After him are Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (1809), Roland Barthes (1915), Henri de Saint-Simon (1760), Charles Fourier (1772), Gilles Deleuze (1925), and Simone Weil (1909).

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