PHILOSOPHER

Johann Gottfried Herder

1744 - 1803

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Johann Gottfried von Herder ( HUR-dər; German: [ˈjoːhan ˈɡɔtfʁiːt ˈhɛʁdɐ]; 25 August 1744 – 18 December 1803) was a German philosopher, theologian, pastor, poet, and literary critic. He is associated with the Enlightenment, Sturm und Drang, and Weimar Classicism. He was a Romantic philosopher and poet who argued that true German culture was to be discovered among the common people (das Volk). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Johann Gottfried Herder has received more than 1,023,405 page views. His biography is available in 66 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 65 in 2019). Johann Gottfried Herder is the 89th most popular philosopher (up from 93rd in 2019), the 16th most popular biography from Poland (down from 15th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Polish Philosopher.

Johann Gottfried Herder was a German philosopher, theologian, and poet. He is most famous for his philosophy of nationalism, which he believed was the natural state of humanity.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Johann Gottfried Herder ranks 89 out of 1,267. Before him are Mencius, Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab, John of Damascus, Athanasius of Alexandria, Peter Abelard, and Theophrastus. After him are Ibn Taymiyyah, Leucippus, Walter Benjamin, Zhuang Zhou, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, and Jean Bodin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1744, Johann Gottfried Herder ranks 2. Before him is Jean-Baptiste Lamarck. After him are Frederick William II of Prussia, Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Mayer Amschel Rothschild, Pierre Méchain, Karl Theodor Anton Maria von Dalberg, Abigail Adams, Infanta Maria Josefa of Spain, Prince Charles of Hesse-Kassel, Conrad Moench, and Giacomo Quarenghi. Among people deceased in 1803, Johann Gottfried Herder ranks 1. After him are Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, Toussaint Louverture, Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, Cardinal de Rohan, Grand Duchess Elena Pavlovna of Russia, Adélaïde Labille-Guiard, Franz Xaver Süssmayr, Vittorio Alfieri, Louis I of Etruria, Louis Claude de Saint-Martin, and Ami Argand.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Johann Gottfried Herder ranks 16 out of 1,694. Before him are Paul von Hindenburg (1847), L. L. Zamenhof (1859), Manfred von Richthofen (1892), Günter Grass (1927), Adam Mickiewicz (1798), and Fritz Haber (1868). After him are Marie Leszczyńska (1703), Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit (1686), Władysław Szpilman (1911), Wernher von Braun (1912), Erich Ludendorff (1865), and Wisława Szymborska (1923).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Poland

Among philosophers born in Poland, Johann Gottfried Herder ranks 2. Before him are Arthur Schopenhauer (1788). After him are Ernst Cassirer (1874), Zygmunt Bauman (1925), Christian Wolff (1679), Friedrich Schleiermacher (1768), Jakob Böhme (1575), Judah Loew ben Bezalel (1512), Alfred Tarski (1901), Günther Anders (1902), Paul Tillich (1886), and Heinrich Rickert (1863).

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