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Johann Heinrich Alsted

1588 - 1638

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Johann Heinrich Alsted (March 1588 – November 9, 1638), "the true parent of all the Encyclopædias", was a German-born Transylvanian Saxon Calvinist minister and academic, known for his varied interests: in Ramism and Lullism, pedagogy and encyclopedias, theology and millenarianism. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Johann Heinrich Alsted has received more than 43,115 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Johann Heinrich Alsted is the 880th most popular philosopher (down from 699th in 2019), the 3,015th most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,168th in 2019) and the 110th most popular German Philosopher.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Johann Heinrich Alsted ranks 880 out of 1,267. Before him are Anniceris, G. E. M. Anscombe, Hermogenes of Tarsus, Antipater of Tarsus, Édouard Le Roy, and Donald Davidson. After him are Monimus, David of Dinant, Theodoric of Freiberg, Jacob Moleschott, Nikephoros Blemmydes, and Félix Ravaisson-Mollien.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1588, Johann Heinrich Alsted ranks 14. Before him are Catherine de Vivonne, marquise de Rambouillet, Adolf Frederick I, Duke of Mecklenburg, Robert Filmer, Jan Janssonius, Pierre Séguier, and Ole Worm. After him are Margherita Aldobrandini, Claudius Salmasius, Johann von Aldringen, François de La Mothe Le Vayer, Julius Frederick, Duke of Württemberg-Weiltingen, and John Winthrop. Among people deceased in 1638, Johann Heinrich Alsted ranks 17. Before him are Peter Minuit, Francis Hyacinth, Duke of Savoy, Willem Blaeu, Hercules Seghers, Paulus Moreelse, and Barbara Longhi. After him are Georg Flegel, Joachim Wtewael, Jacques Blanchard, George Frederick, Margrave of Baden-Durlach, Frederick I, Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg, and John Ernest, Duke of Saxe-Eisenach.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Johann Heinrich Alsted ranks 3,015 out of 7,253. Before him are Conrad Graf (1782), Conrad of Parzham (1818), Princess Marie of Prussia (1855), Jean Cabanis (1816), Werner Kohlmeyer (1924), and Nikolaus, Hereditary Grand Duke of Oldenburg (1897). After him are Franka Potente (1974), Charles Elliot (1801), Olga Benário Prestes (1908), William Louis, Count of Nassau-Dillenburg (1560), Hugo Schiff (1834), and Norbert Burgmüller (1810).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Germany

Among philosophers born in Germany, Johann Heinrich Alsted ranks 110. Before him are Jakob Friedrich Fries (1773), Karl Vogt (1817), Joseph Dietzgen (1828), Ferdinand Christian Baur (1792), Valentin Weigel (1533), and Rudolf Stammler (1856). After him are Theodoric of Freiberg (1250), Albrecht Ritschl (1822), Ernst von Glasersfeld (1917), Arthur Oncken Lovejoy (1873), Johannes Agricola (1494), and Erich Neumann (1905).

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