PHILOSOPHER

Jerome of Prague

1379 - 1416

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Jerome of Prague (Czech: Jeroným Pražský; Latin: Hieronymus Pragensis; 1379 – 30 May 1416) was a Czech scholastic philosopher and theologian. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jerome of Prague has received more than 125,969 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Jerome of Prague is the 265th most popular philosopher (up from 292nd in 2019), the 66th most popular biography from Czechia (up from 72nd in 2019) and the 6th most popular Czech Philosopher.

Jerome of Prague is most famous for his invention of the first mechanical clock.

Memorability Metrics

  • 130k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 65.66

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 30

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 10.20

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.68

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Jerome of Prague ranks 265 out of 1,267. Before him are William Godwin, Speusippus, Ibn al-Nafis, Nicole Oresme, Hans Jonas, and Ammonius Saccas. After him are Raymond Aron, Abraham ibn Ezra, Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi, Fakhr al-Din al-Razi, Panaetius, and Epimenides.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1379, Jerome of Prague ranks 2. Before him is Pope Callixtus III. After him are Henry III of Castile, Zawisza Czarny, and Huitzilihuitl. Among people deceased in 1416, Jerome of Prague ranks 2. Before him is Ferdinand I of Aragon. After him are John, Duke of Berry, Hrvoje Vukčić Hrvatinić, Eleanor of Castile, Queen of Navarre, Anna of Cilli, Julian of Norwich, and Henry the Mild, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Jerome of Prague ranks 66 out of 1,200. Before him are George of Poděbrady (1420), Ludmila of Bohemia (860), Franz Werfel (1890), Jan Evangelista Purkyně (1787), Jan Masaryk (1886), and Jaroslav Seifert (1901). After him are Karl Kraus (1874), Lída Baarová (1914), Carl Ferdinand Cori (1896), Eugen Böhm von Bawerk (1851), Bohuslav Martinů (1890), and Max Wertheimer (1880).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Czechia

Among philosophers born in Czechia, Jerome of Prague ranks 6. Before him are John Amos Comenius (1592), Edmund Husserl (1859), Hans Kelsen (1881), Karl Kautsky (1854), and Bernard Bolzano (1781). After him are Jan Patočka (1907), Vilém Flusser (1920), Karel Kosík (1926), Theodor Gomperz (1832), František Tomášek (1899), and Tomáš Halík (1948).

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