PHILOSOPHER

Judah Loew ben Bezalel

1512 - 1609

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Judah Loew ben Bezalel (Hebrew: יהודה ליווא בן בצלאל; 1512 – 17 September 1609), also known as Rabbi Loew (alt. Löw, Loewe, Löwe or Levai), the Maharal of Prague (Hebrew: מהר״ל מפראג), or simply the Maharal (the Hebrew acronym of "Moreinu ha-Rav Loew", 'Our Teacher, Rabbi Loew'), was an important Talmudic scholar, Jewish mystic, mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher who, for most of his life, served as a leading rabbi in the cities of Mikulov in Moravia and Prague in Bohemia. Loew wrote on Jewish philosophy and Jewish mysticism. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Judah Loew ben Bezalel has received more than 623,495 page views. His biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). Judah Loew ben Bezalel is the 234th most popular philosopher (up from 236th in 2019), the 100th most popular biography from Poland (down from 89th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Polish Philosopher.

Judah Loew ben Bezalel is most famous for his creation of the golem.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 36

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.43

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.59

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Judah Loew ben Bezalel ranks 234 out of 1,267. Before him are Al-Jahiz, Arcesilaus, Carneades, Roger Garaudy, Prodicus, and Xenocrates. After him are Cleanthes, Giorgio Agamben, Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, Chilon of Sparta, Apollodorus of Athens, and Milarepa.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1512, Judah Loew ben Bezalel ranks 6. Before him are Gerardus Mercator, Catherine Parr, James V of Scotland, Niccolò dell'Abbate, and Henry, King of Portugal. After him are Manco Inca Yupanqui, Devlet I Giray, Robert Recorde, Mikołaj "the Red" Radziwiłł, Diego Laynez, and Sibylle of Cleves. Among people deceased in 1609, Judah Loew ben Bezalel ranks 2. Before him is Annibale Carracci. After him are Ferdinando I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, Joseph Justus Scaliger, Jacobus Arminius, Federico Zuccari, Gasparo da Salò, John William, Duke of Jülich-Cleves-Berg, Yi San-hae, Giovanni Giacomo Gastoldi, and John Leonardi.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Judah Loew ben Bezalel ranks 100 out of 1,694. Before him are Krzysztof Penderecki (1933), Horst Köhler (1943), Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein (1858), Stefan Banach (1892), Tadeusz Reichstein (1897), and Dziga Vertov (1896). After him are Ulrich Beck (1944), Pola Negri (1897), Jan Matejko (1838), Mieszko I of Poland (940), Maria Feodorovna (1759), and Leopold Kronecker (1823).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Poland

Among philosophers born in Poland, Judah Loew ben Bezalel ranks 8. Before him are Johann Gottfried Herder (1744), Ernst Cassirer (1874), Zygmunt Bauman (1925), Christian Wolff (1679), Friedrich Schleiermacher (1768), and Jakob Böhme (1575). After him are Alfred Tarski (1901), Günther Anders (1902), Paul Tillich (1886), Heinrich Rickert (1863), Leszek Kołakowski (1927), and Chaïm Perelman (1912).

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