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PHILOSOPHER

Johann Gottlieb Fichte

1762 - 1814

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Johann Gottlieb Fichte (; German: [ˈjoːhan ˈɡɔtliːp ˈfɪçtə]; 19 May 1762 – 29 January 1814) was a German philosopher who became a founding figure of the philosophical movement known as German idealism, which developed from the theoretical and ethical writings of Immanuel Kant. Recently, philosophers and scholars have begun to appreciate Fichte as an important philosopher in his own right due to his original insights into the nature of self-consciousness or self-awareness. Fichte was also the originator of thesis–antithesis–synthesis, an idea that is often erroneously attributed to Hegel. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Johann Gottlieb Fichte has received more than 1,042,066 page views. His biography is available in 78 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 76 in 2019). Johann Gottlieb Fichte is the 67th most popular philosopher (down from 60th in 2019), the 72nd most popular biography from Germany (down from 64th in 2019) and the 7th most popular German Philosopher.

Johann Gottlieb Fichte is most famous for his philosophy of transcendental idealism.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Johann Gottlieb Fichte ranks 67 out of 1,081Before him are Edmund Husserl, Gorgias, Pliny the Elder, Ludwig Feuerbach, Peter Abelard, and George Berkeley. After him are Antonio Gramsci, Karl Jaspers, Rudolf Steiner, Ramakrishna, Epictetus, and William of Ockham.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1762, Johann Gottlieb Fichte ranks 1After him are George IV of the United Kingdom, Constanze Mozart, André Chénier, Jean-Baptiste Jourdan, Archduchess Maria Theresa of Austria, Gia Long, Theroigne de Mericourt, Thomas-Alexandre Dumas, María Cayetana de Silva, 13th Duchess of Alba, Jacques Balmat, and Pierre André Latreille. Among people deceased in 1814, Johann Gottlieb Fichte ranks 3Before him are Marquis de Sade and Empress Joséphine. After him are Maria Carolina of Austria, Joseph-Ignace Guillotin, Benjamin Thompson, Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, Marie-Louise O'Murphy, Charles-Joseph, 7th Prince of Ligne, Gustaf Mauritz Armfelt, Frederick Christian II, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg, and Matthew Flinders.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Johann Gottlieb Fichte ranks 72 out of 6,142Before him are Erich Fromm (1900), Erich von Manstein (1887), Karl Lagerfeld (1933), Heinrich Hertz (1857), Helmut Kohl (1930), and Albert, Prince Consort (1819). After him are Franz Beckenbauer (1945), Karl Jaspers (1883), Caspar David Friedrich (1774), Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714), Richard Strauss (1864), and Heinz Guderian (1888).

Among PHILOSOPHERS In Germany

Among philosophers born in Germany, Johann Gottlieb Fichte ranks 7Before him are Friedrich Nietzsche (1844), Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770), Friedrich Engels (1820), Martin Heidegger (1889), Hannah Arendt (1906), and Ludwig Feuerbach (1804). After him are Karl Jaspers (1883), Jürgen Habermas (1929), Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling (1775), Nicholas of Cusa (1401), Carl von Clausewitz (1780), and Walter Benjamin (1892).