PHILOSOPHER

Johann Georg Hamann

1730 - 1788

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Johann Georg Hamann (; German: [ˈhaːman]; 27 August 1730 – 21 June 1788) was a German Lutheran philosopher from Königsberg known as "the Wizard of the North" who was one of the leading figures of post-Kantian philosophy. His work was used by his student J. G. Herder as the main support of the Sturm und Drang movement, and is associated with the Counter-Enlightenment and Romanticism.He introduced Kant, also from Königsberg, to the works of both Hume – waking him from his "dogmatic slumber" – and Rousseau. Hamann was influenced by Hume, but he used his views to argue for rather than against Christianity.Goethe and Kierkegaard were among those who considered him to be the finest mind of his time. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Johann Georg Hamann has received more than 286,881 page views. His biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 35 in 2019). Johann Georg Hamann is the 328th most popular philosopher (up from 365th in 2019), the 251st most popular biography from Russia (up from 321st in 2019) and the 6th most popular Russian Philosopher.

Johann Georg Hamann is most famous for his work as a philosopher, theologian, and literary critic. He is often considered the father of modern literary criticism.

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Over the past year Johann Georg Hamann has had the most page views in the with 35,268 views, followed by German (15,841), and Spanish (6,930). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Kirghiz (48.58%), Estonian (46.37%), and Finnish (43.18%)

Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Johann Georg Hamann ranks 328 out of 1,267. Before him are Rudolf Otto, Moritz Schlick, Ramanuja, Moses Hess, Martianus Capella, and Aristoxenus. After him are Hermann Cohen, Edgar Morin, Wang Yangming, Justus Lipsius, Asanga, and Thrasymachus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1730, Johann Georg Hamann ranks 3. Before him are Alexander Suvorov, and Charles Messier. After him are Étienne Bézout, Jan Ingenhousz, Darya Nikolayevna Saltykova, Prince Augustus Ferdinand of Prussia, Josiah Wedgwood, Antonio Sacchini, James Bruce, Prince Francis Xavier of Saxony, and Velu Nachiyar. Among people deceased in 1788, Johann Georg Hamann ranks 8. Before him are Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, Charles Edward Stuart, Thomas Gainsborough, Maurice Quentin de La Tour, and Jean-François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse. After him are Giovanni Antonio Scopoli, Armand de Vignerot du Plessis, José, Prince of Brazil, Infante Gabriel of Spain, Duchess Augusta of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, and Nicole-Reine Lepaute.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Johann Georg Hamann ranks 251 out of 3,761. Before him are Viktor Zubkov (1941), Vasily Blyukher (1889), Grand Duke Kirill Vladimirovich of Russia (1876), Dmitry Yazov (1924), Iziaslav I of Kiev (1024), and Armin Mueller-Stahl (1930). After him are Pharnaces II of Pontus (-95), Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky (1863), Dmitry Ustinov (1908), Boris Shaposhnikov (1882), Fyodor Tolbukhin (1894), and Alexander Luria (1902).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Russia

Among philosophers born in Russia, Johann Georg Hamann ranks 6. Before him are Immanuel Kant (1724), Mikhail Bakunin (1814), Mikhail Bakhtin (1895), Georgi Plekhanov (1856), and Vladimir Solovyov (1853). After him are Alexandre Koyré (1892), Alexandre Kojève (1902), Ivan Ilyin (1883), P. D. Ouspensky (1878), Yuri Lotman (1922), and Sergei Bulgakov (1871).

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