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Ludwig Büchner

1824 - 1899

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Friedrich Karl Christian Ludwig Büchner (29 March 1824 – 30 April 1899) was a German philosopher, physiologist and physician who became one of the exponents of 19th-century scientific materialism. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ludwig Büchner has received more than 79,038 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia. Ludwig Büchner is the 578th most popular philosopher (down from 558th in 2019), the 1,644th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,618th in 2019) and the 76th most popular German Philosopher.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Ludwig Büchner ranks 578 out of 1,267. Before him are Zou Yan, Andreas Karlstadt, Peter the Iberian, Charles W. Morris, Cesare Ripa, and Johann Bernhard Basedow. After him are Shah Waliullah Dehlawi, Conrad Celtes, Thiruvalluvar, Kanada, Alcidamas, and Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1824, Ludwig Büchner ranks 23. Before him are Stonewall Jackson, William Huggins, Princess Francisca of Brazil, Princess Sophie of the Netherlands, William Walker, and Jozef Israëls. After him are Tokugawa Iesada, Kuno Fischer, Francesc Pi i Margall, Johann Wilhelm Hittorf, Michael Madhusudan Dutt, and Karl-Maria Kertbeny. Among people deceased in 1899, Ludwig Büchner ranks 16. Before him are Paul Reuter, Ernest Chausson, Giovanni Segantini, Virginia Oldoini, Countess of Castiglione, Nubar Pasha, and Aristide Cavaillé-Coll. After him are Othniel Charles Marsh, Edward Frankland, Charles Friedel, Geert Adriaans Boomgaard, Princess Maria Immacolata of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, and Katsu Kaishū.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Ludwig Büchner ranks 1,644 out of 7,253. Before him are Charles III William, Margrave of Baden-Durlach (1679), Johann Bernhard Basedow (1723), Prince Frederick of the Netherlands (1797), Florian Schneider (1947), Friedrich Parrot (1791), and Axel Springer (1912). After him are Eugen Jochum (1902), Prince Oskar of Prussia (1888), Heinrich Lehmann-Willenbrock (1911), August Ludwig von Schlözer (1735), Felix Nussbaum (1904), and Conrad Celtes (1459).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Germany

Among philosophers born in Germany, Ludwig Büchner ranks 76. Before him are Hans Vaihinger (1852), Karl Korsch (1886), Axel Honneth (1949), Eric Voegelin (1901), Andreas Karlstadt (1486), and Johann Bernhard Basedow (1723). After him are Conrad Celtes (1459), Karl Christian Friedrich Krause (1781), Hans Albert (1921), Constantin von Tischendorf (1815), Hermann Samuel Reimarus (1694), and Werner Jaeger (1888).

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