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 740,042 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia. Jean Vanier is the 762nd most popular philosopher (down from 719th in 2019), the 232nd most popular biography from Switzerland (down from 217th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Swiss Philosopher.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Jean Vanier ranks 762 out of 1,267. Before him are Abu'l-Barakāt al-Baghdādī, Zaki al-Arsuzi, Nisargadatta Maharaj, Yeshayahu Leibowitz, Henry of Ghent, and Wang Fuzhi. After him are Luigi Guido Grandi, Motoori Norinaga, Vladimir Jankélévitch, Ahmad al-Tayyeb, Lucius Annaeus Cornutus, and Paul de Lagarde.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1928, Jean Vanier ranks 188. Before him are Arnfinn Bergmann, Gordie Howe, Aleksey Batalov, Bob Cousy, Jack Tramiel, and Helen Frankenthaler. After him are Lorna Wing, Cannonball Adderley, William Peter Blatty, Laurence Harvey, Dominique Colonna, and Stuart Whitman. Among people deceased in 2019, Jean Vanier ranks 137. Before him are Billy Drago, Kevin Roche, Sue Lyon, Peter Lindbergh, Machiko Kyō, and Václav Vorlíček. After him are Harold Bloom, Carmen Argenziano, William Levada, Anatoly Lukyanov, Mark Hollis, and Keith Flint.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Jean Vanier ranks 232 out of 1,015. Before him are Jakob Friedrich Ehrhart (1742), Carl Nägeli (1817), Marcel Bezençon (1907), Pierre Jeanneret (1896), Jean-André Deluc (1727), and Conrad Ferdinand Meyer (1825). After him are Heinrich Glarean (1488), Emil Brunner (1889), Pancho Vladigerov (1899), Eugène Grasset (1845), Emma Jung (1882), and Louis of Cyprus (1436).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Switzerland

Among philosophers born in Switzerland, Jean Vanier ranks 6. Before 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), Tariq Ramadan (1962), and Karl Ludwig von Haller (1768).

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