PHILOSOPHER

Johannes Sturm

1507 - 1589

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Johannes Sturm (also known as Jean Sturm; Latinized as Ioannes Sturmius; 1 October 1507 – 3 March 1589), was a German educator and Protestant reformer, who was influential in the design of the gymnasium system of secondary education. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Johannes Sturm has received more than 42,170 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia. Johannes Sturm is the 683rd most popular philosopher (down from 596th in 2019), the 2,061st most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,750th in 2019) and the 93rd most popular German Philosopher.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Johannes Sturm ranks 683 out of 1,267Before him are Wang Bi, Amalric of Bena, Rudolph Goclenius, Anania Shirakatsi, Maximus of Tyre, and Zhang Zai. After him are Zalmoxis, Alexander Zinoviev, Theophan Prokopovich, Georges Politzer, Pyotr Lavrov, and Alvin Plantinga.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1507, Johannes Sturm ranks 8Before him are Catherine of Austria, Queen of Portugal, Jiajing Emperor, Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola, Altan Khan, Jacques Arcadelt, and Inés Suárez. After him are Bálint Bakfark, Ferrante Gonzaga, Alvise I Mocenigo, Marie of Baden-Sponheim, Magdalena of Saxony, and Guillaume Rondelet. Among people deceased in 1589, Johannes Sturm ranks 8Before him are Catherine de' Medici, Jacques Clément, Christophe Plantin, Anna Maria of the Palatinate, Benedict the Moor, and Alessandro Farnese. After him are Bernard Palissy, Julius, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Michael Baius, Charles II, Lord of Monaco, Jean-Antoine de Baïf, and Heo Nanseolheon.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Johannes Sturm ranks 2,061 out of 7,253Before him are Fredrik Pacius (1809), Walter Heitz (1878), Bernd Hölzenbein (1946), Johann Christoph Bach (1671), Wolfgang Borchert (1921), and Friedrich Kellner (1885). After him are Louis VIII, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt (1691), Hans Globke (1898), Rudolf II, Duke of Saxe-Wittenberg (1307), Jordan of Saxony (1190), Johann Nepomuk Maelzel (1772), and Wilhelm Adam (1877).

Among PHILOSOPHERS In Germany

Among philosophers born in Germany, Johannes Sturm ranks 93Before him are Friedrich Albert Lange (1828), Ernst Moritz Arndt (1769), Franz Xaver von Baader (1765), Johannes Nikolaus Tetens (1736), Alfred Schmidt (1931), and Rudolph Goclenius (1547). After him are Helmuth Plessner (1892), Ludwig Klages (1872), Arnold Ruge (1802), Theodor Lessing (1872), Paul de Lagarde (1827), and Friedrich Adolf Trendelenburg (1802).