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Kitaro Nishida

1870 - 1945

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Kitarō Nishida (西田 幾多郎, Nishida Kitarō, May 19, 1870 – June 7, 1945) was a Japanese moral philosopher, philosopher of mathematics and science, and religious scholar. He was the founder of what has been called the Kyoto School of philosophy. He graduated from the University of Tokyo during the Meiji period in 1894 with a degree in philosophy. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Kitaro Nishida has received more than 253,544 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Kitaro Nishida is the 621st most popular philosopher (up from 679th in 2019), the 484th most popular biography from Japan (up from 583rd in 2019) and the 4th most popular Japanese Philosopher.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Kitaro Nishida ranks 621 out of 1,267. Before him are Berengar of Tours, Reinhold Niebuhr, Kuno Fischer, Marpa Lotsawa, Dharmakirti, and Vilém Flusser. After him are Antonio Labriola, Alexander of Hales, Werner Jaeger, Nikolai Fyodorovich Fyodorov, Theodor Lipps, and Shihab al-Din 'Umar al-Suhrawardi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1870, Kitaro Nishida ranks 49. Before him are Jaime, Duke of Madrid, Lord Alfred Douglas, Marianne Weber, Bernard Baruch, Gustav Landauer, and Archduchess Louise of Austria. After him are Michael Rostovtzeff, Ignacio Zuloaga, Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel, Archduchess Margarethe Klementine of Austria, Vítězslav Novák, and Alexandre Benois. Among people deceased in 1945, Kitaro Nishida ranks 127. Before him are Mário de Andrade, Bogdan Filov, Robert Desnos, Albrecht Penck, Ernst-Robert Grawitz, and Paul Pelliot. After him are Constanze Manziarly, Hajime Sugiyama, Charles Fabry, Alexander Siloti, Otto Kittel, and Ignacio Zuloaga.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Kitaro Nishida ranks 484 out of 6,245. Before him are Emperor Ichijō (980), Shozo Tsugitani (1940), Hiroshi Kanazawa (1950), Ashikaga Yoshiteru (1536), Masanori Tokita (1925), and Fumihiko Maki (1928). After him are Kusunoki Masashige (1294), Miki Matsubara (1959), Satoru Iwata (1959), Soemu Toyoda (1885), Yasuhito, Prince Chichibu (1902), and Hajime Sugiyama (1880).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Japan

Among philosophers born in Japan, Kitaro Nishida ranks 4. Before him are Fukuzawa Yukichi (1835), Masanobu Fukuoka (1913), and Daisaku Ikeda (1928). After him are Hakuin Ekaku (1686), Hayashi Razan (1583), Motoori Norinaga (1730), Arai Hakuseki (1657), and Ogyū Sorai (1666).

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