PHILOSOPHER

Johannes Bugenhagen

1485 - 1558

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Johannes Bugenhagen (24 June 1485 – 20 April 1558), also called Doctor Pomeranus by Martin Luther, was a German theologian and Lutheran priest who introduced the Protestant Reformation in the Duchy of Pomerania and Denmark in the 16th century. Among his major accomplishments was organization of Lutheran churches in Northern Germany and Scandinavia. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Johannes Bugenhagen has received more than 124,825 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Johannes Bugenhagen is the 650th most popular philosopher (down from 642nd in 2019), the 397th most popular biography from Poland (down from 386th in 2019) and the 17th most popular Polish Philosopher.

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  • 28

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  • 2.61

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Johannes Bugenhagen ranks 650 out of 1,267. Before him are Friedrich Albert Lange, Bharadwaja, Jonathan Edwards, Mary Parker Follett, Ernst Moritz Arndt, and María Zambrano. After him are Eduard Zeller, Michael Walzer, Louis Lavelle, Franz Xaver von Baader, Diodorus Cronus, and Florian Znaniecki.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1485, Johannes Bugenhagen ranks 11. Before him are Giovanni da Verrazzano, Sebastiano del Piombo, Pedro de Alvarado, Clément Janequin, Joos van Cleve, and Sayyida al Hurra. After him are Balthasar Hubmaier, Wolf Huber, Elizabeth of Denmark, Electress of Brandenburg, Beatus Rhenanus, Giovanni Battista Ramusio, and Urs Graf. Among people deceased in 1558, Johannes Bugenhagen ranks 10. Before him are Mary of Hungary, Eleanor of Austria, Julius Caesar Scaliger, Clément Janequin, Reginald Pole, and Robert Recorde. After him are Jean Fernel, Macropedius, Francisco de Sá de Miranda, Anna van Egmont, Caupolicán, and Georg I, Count of Württemberg-Mömpelgard.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Johannes Bugenhagen ranks 397 out of 1,694. Before him are Fritz von Below (1853), Leon Pinsker (1821), Michał Kalecki (1899), Hans Bellmer (1902), Stanisław Koniecpolski (1591), and Czesława Kwoka (1943). After him are Heinz Kessler (1920), Ivan Vyhovsky (1608), Horst Mahler (1936), Adam Stefan Sapieha (1867), Gerhard Klopfer (1905), and Johann Adam Hiller (1728).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Poland

Among philosophers born in Poland, Johannes Bugenhagen ranks 17. Before him are Paul Tillich (1886), Heinrich Rickert (1863), Leszek Kołakowski (1927), Chaïm Perelman (1912), Roman Ingarden (1893), and Kuno Fischer (1824). After him are Florian Znaniecki (1882), John Cantius (1390), Symon Budny (1530), Wolfhart Pannenberg (1928), Franz Neumann (1900), and Józef Maria Bocheński (1902).

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