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PHILOSOPHER

Johannes Nikolaus Tetens

1736 - 1807

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Johannes Nikolaus Tetens (also Johann; Danish: Johan Nicolai Tetens; 16 September 1736 – 17 August 1807) was a German-Danish philosopher, statistician and scientist. He has been called the "German Locke," on the basis of a comparison of his major work Philosophische Versuche über die menschliche Natur und ihre Entwickelung (1777) with the work of John Locke. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Johannes Nikolaus Tetens has received more than 43,686 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Johannes Nikolaus Tetens is the 878th most popular philosopher (down from 865th in 2019), the 2,972nd most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,809th in 2019) and the 108th most popular German Philosopher.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Johannes Nikolaus Tetens ranks 878 out of 1,081. Before him are Jean Wahl, Jakob Friedrich Fries, Arai Hakuseki, Charles Renouvier, Nasr Abu Zayd, and Konstantin Leontiev. After him are James Mark Baldwin, Simón Rodríguez, Hermias, Robert Anton Wilson, J. M. E. McTaggart, and Hugo Kołłątaj.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1736, Johannes Nikolaus Tetens ranks 17. Before him are Princess Friederike of Brandenburg-Schwedt, Franz Xaver Messerschmidt, Friedrich Kasimir Medikus, Edward Waring, Anton Graff, and Patrick Henry. After him are Carl Friedrich Christian Fasch, Infanta Maria Ana Francisca of Portugal, Daniel Morgan, Maria, Duchess of Gloucester and Edinburgh, Joseph Pickford, and Carter Braxton. Among people deceased in 1807, Johannes Nikolaus Tetens ranks 19. Before him are Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau, Nikolai Rezanov, Friedrich Melchior, Baron von Grimm, Louis Auguste Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Herbst, and Alexander Ypsilantis. After him are Jeremias Benjamin Richter, Sophie von La Roche, Johann III Bernoulli, Joseph Brant, Mikhail Kheraskov, and Clara Reeve.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Johannes Nikolaus Tetens ranks 2,972 out of 6,142. Before him are Henry Koster (1905), Thomas Häßler (1966), George I, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont (1747), Johann Lukas Schönlein (1793), Helmut Griem (1932), and Adolph VIII, Count of Holstein (1401). After him are Princess Elisabeth of Anhalt (1857), Lothar Collatz (1910), Gustav von Wangenheim (1895), William I, Margrave of Meissen (1343), Moritz Wagner (1813), and Jurij Brězan (1916).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Germany

Among philosophers born in Germany, Johannes Nikolaus Tetens ranks 108. Before him are Ferdinand Christian Baur (1792), Karl Vogt (1817), Joseph Dietzgen (1828), Eberhard August Wilhelm von Zimmermann (1743), Ernst von Glasersfeld (1917), and Jakob Friedrich Fries (1773). After him are Erich Neumann (1905), Arthur Oncken Lovejoy (1873), Friedrich Adolf Trendelenburg (1802), Albrecht Ritschl (1822), Leo Löwenthal (1900), and Gabriel Biel (1418).

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