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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 43,397 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Johannes Nikolaus Tetens is the 658th most popular philosopher (up from 878th in 2019), the 1,936th most popular biography from Germany (up from 2,969th in 2019) and the 90th most popular German Philosopher.

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  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 10.80

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Over the past year Johannes Nikolaus Tetens has had the most page views in the with 3,703 views, followed by Russian (1,430), and Spanish (1,405). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are German (610.91%), Swedish (93.67%), and Catalan (86.25%)

Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Johannes Nikolaus Tetens ranks 658 out of 1,267. Before him are Michael Walzer, Louis Lavelle, Franz Xaver von Baader, Diodorus Cronus, Florian Znaniecki, and Paul Virilio. After him are Svetozar Marković, Cebes, Leo the Mathematician, Gustavo Gutiérrez, Dignāga, and Mario Bunge.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1736, Johannes Nikolaus Tetens ranks 14. Before him are Johann Georg Albrechtsberger, Rudolf Erich Raspe, Louis Joseph, Prince of Condé, Princess Friederike of Brandenburg-Schwedt, Franz Xaver Messerschmidt, and Edward Waring. After him are Carl Friedrich Christian Fasch, Anton Graff, Friedrich Kasimir Medikus, Patrick Henry, Daniel Morgan, and Sir John Acton, 6th Baronet. Among people deceased in 1807, Johannes Nikolaus Tetens ranks 12. Before him are Duchess Anna Amalia of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Henry Benedict Stuart, Osman Pazvantoğlu, Friedrich Melchior, Baron von Grimm, George Atwood, and John Newton. After him are Jacob Philipp Hackert, Nikolai Rezanov, Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau, Louis Auguste Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, Alexander Ypsilantis, and Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Herbst.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Johannes Nikolaus Tetens ranks 1,936 out of 7,253. Before him are George, Duke of Bavaria (1455), Friedrich Alfred Krupp (1854), Henry III, Duke of Bavaria (940), Franz Abt (1819), Barbara of Brandenburg (1464), and Richard Hauptmann (1899). After him are Hermann I, Landgrave of Thuringia (1155), Gustav Nachtigal (1834), Johann VI, Count of Nassau-Dillenburg (1536), Katia Mann (1883), Fastrada (765), and Carl Correns (1864).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Germany

Among philosophers born in Germany, Johannes Nikolaus Tetens ranks 90. Before him are Philipp Mainländer (1841), Ernst Nolte (1923), Eugen Fink (1905), Friedrich Albert Lange (1828), Ernst Moritz Arndt (1769), and Franz Xaver von Baader (1765). After him are Alfred Schmidt (1931), Rudolph Goclenius (1547), Johannes Sturm (1507), Helmuth Plessner (1892), Ludwig Klages (1872), and Arnold Ruge (1802).

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