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 1,140,539 page views. His biography is available in 78 different languages on Wikipedia. Johann Gottlieb Fichte is the 68th most popular philosopher (down from 67th in 2019), the 67th most popular biography from Germany (up from 72nd in 2019) and the 6th 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 68 out of 1,267. Before him are Ibn Arabi, Pliny the Elder, Gorgias, Edmund Husserl, Al-Kindi, and Antonio Gramsci. After him are Ludwig Feuerbach, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling, Zeno of Citium, Karl Jaspers, Rudolf Steiner, and George Berkeley.

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Contemporaries

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

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Johann Gottlieb Fichte ranks 67 out of 7,253. Before him are Eva Braun (1912), Gerd Müller (1945), Ambrose (340), Jacques Offenbach (1819), Konrad Adenauer (1876), and Erich Fromm (1900). After him are Ludwig Feuerbach (1804), Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714), Albertus Magnus (1206), Clara Schumann (1819), Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling (1775), and Erich von Manstein (1887).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Germany

Among philosophers born in Germany, Johann Gottlieb Fichte ranks 6. Before him are Friedrich Nietzsche (1844), Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770), Friedrich Engels (1820), Martin Heidegger (1889), and Hannah Arendt (1906). After him are Ludwig Feuerbach (1804), Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling (1775), Karl Jaspers (1883), Jürgen Habermas (1929), Carl von Clausewitz (1780), and Nicholas of Cusa (1401).

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