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PHILOSOPHER

Jean Vanier

1928 - 2019

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Jean Vanier (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ vanje], September 10, 1928 – May 7, 2019) was a Canadian Catholic philosopher and theologian. In 1964, he founded L'Arche, an international federation of communities spread over 37 countries for people with developmental disabilities and those who assist them. In 1971, he co-founded Faith and Light with Marie-Hélène Mathieu, which also works for people with developmental disabilities, their families, and friends in over 80 countries. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jean Vanier has received more than 705,651 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia. Jean Vanier is the 719th most popular philosopher (down from 527th in 2019), the 217th most popular biography from Switzerland (down from 139th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Swiss Philosopher.

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  • 26

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Jean Vanier ranks 719 out of 1,081Before him are Daisaku Ikeda, Jakob Lorber, Pantaenus, Anania Shirakatsi, Alexander Zinoviev, and Li Zhi. After him are Wonhyo, Leontion, Mario Bunge, Hossein Nasr, Anton Wilhelm Amo, and Helen Parkhurst.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1928, Jean Vanier ranks 169Before him are Gerald Bull, Branko Mikulić, Maurice Sendak, Wolfhart Pannenberg, Daisaku Ikeda, and Prince Tomislav of Yugoslavia. After him are Édouard Molinaro, Robert Badinter, Charles Gray, Stuart Whitman, Cécile Aubry, and Henry Silva. Among people deceased in 2019, Jean Vanier ranks 126Before him are Antoine Gizenga, Maria Giuseppa Robucci, José de Jesús Pimiento Rodríguez, Jacques Loussier, John C. Bogle, and Harold Bloom. After him are Judith Kerr, Emanuel Ungaro, John Havlicek, France-Albert René, Jan Stráský, and Peter Schreier.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Jean Vanier ranks 217 out of 876Before him are Pascal Couchepin (1942), Jean Ziegler (1934), Carlo Fontana (1638), Jost Amman (1539), Johann Jakob Bodmer (1698), and Heinrich Glarean (1488). After him are Jean Philippe Loys de Cheseaux (1718), Ubol Ratana (1951), Louis of Cyprus (1436), Eugène Grasset (1845), Jean-André Deluc (1727), and Nicolas Théodore de Saussure (1767).

Among PHILOSOPHERS In Switzerland

Among philosophers born in Switzerland, Jean Vanier ranks 6Before him are Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712), Benjamin Constant (1767), Henri-Frédéric Amiel (1821), Frithjof Schuon (1907), and Denis de Rougemont (1906). After him are Emer de Vattel (1714), Karl Ludwig von Haller (1768), and Tariq Ramadan (1962).