1824 - 1899
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 72,057 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Ludwig Büchner is the 558th most popular philosopher (down from 514th in 2019), the 1,618th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,420th in 2019) and the 74th most popular German Philosopher.
Page Views (PV)
Historical Popularity Index (HPI)
Languages Editions (L)
Effective Languages (L*)
Coefficient of Variation (CV)
Among philosophers, Ludwig Büchner ranks 558 out of 1,081. Before him are Metrodorus of Lampsacus, Zhou Dunyi, Luis de Molina, Werner Jaeger, Georges Canguilhem, and Reinhold Niebuhr. After him are Jacques Ellul, Stein Rokkan, Étienne Balibar, Zengzi, Karl Leonhard Reinhold, and Henry Corbin.
331 BC - 278 BC
HPI: 57.63
Rank: 552
1017 - 1073
HPI: 57.58
Rank: 553
1535 - 1600
HPI: 57.54
Rank: 554
1888 - 1961
HPI: 57.48
Rank: 555
1904 - 1995
HPI: 57.48
Rank: 556
1892 - 1971
HPI: 57.41
Rank: 557
1824 - 1899
HPI: 57.37
Rank: 558
1912 - 1994
HPI: 57.35
Rank: 559
1921 - 1979
HPI: 57.31
Rank: 560
1942 - Present
HPI: 57.30
Rank: 561
504 BC - 435 BC
HPI: 57.30
Rank: 562
1757 - 1823
HPI: 57.29
Rank: 563
1903 - 1978
HPI: 57.29
Rank: 564
Among people born in 1824, Ludwig Büchner ranks 22. Before him are Dayananda Saraswati, William Huggins, William Walker, Princess Sophie of the Netherlands, Karl-Maria Kertbeny, and Tokugawa Iesada. After him are Johann Wilhelm Hittorf, Nana Sahib, Leland Stanford, Princess Francisca of Brazil, Pierre Janssen, and Peter Cornelius. Among people deceased in 1899, Ludwig Büchner ranks 17. Before him are Rosa Bonheur, Giovanni Segantini, Virginia Oldoini, Countess of Castiglione, Aristide Cavaillé-Coll, Nubar Pasha, and Alfred, Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. After him are Othniel Charles Marsh, Edward Frankland, Geert Adriaans Boomgaard, Abdallahi ibn Muhammad, Katsu Kaishū, and Charles Friedel.
1824 - 1883
HPI: 60.06
Rank: 16
1824 - 1910
HPI: 59.78
Rank: 17
1824 - 1860
HPI: 59.00
Rank: 18
1824 - 1897
HPI: 57.78
Rank: 19
1824 - 1882
HPI: 57.45
Rank: 20
1824 - 1858
HPI: 57.42
Rank: 21
1824 - 1899
HPI: 57.37
Rank: 22
1824 - 1914
HPI: 57.20
Rank: 23
1824 - 1859
HPI: 57.04
Rank: 24
1824 - 1893
HPI: 57.01
Rank: 25
1824 - 1898
HPI: 56.91
Rank: 26
1824 - 1907
HPI: 56.73
Rank: 27
1824 - 1874
HPI: 56.44
Rank: 28
1822 - 1899
HPI: 61.63
Rank: 11
1858 - 1899
HPI: 59.73
Rank: 12
1837 - 1899
HPI: 58.31
Rank: 13
1811 - 1899
HPI: 57.92
Rank: 14
1825 - 1899
HPI: 57.73
Rank: 15
1874 - 1899
HPI: 57.38
Rank: 16
1824 - 1899
HPI: 57.37
Rank: 17
1831 - 1899
HPI: 57.08
Rank: 18
1825 - 1899
HPI: 56.78
Rank: 19
1788 - 1899
HPI: 55.63
Rank: 20
1846 - 1899
HPI: 54.47
Rank: 21
1823 - 1899
HPI: 54.32
Rank: 22
1822 - 1899
HPI: 53.92
Rank: 23
Among people born in Germany, Ludwig Büchner ranks 1,618 out of 6,142. Before him are Johann van Beethoven (1740), Matthias Sammer (1967), Horst Seehofer (1949), Joschka Fischer (1948), Albert Bierstadt (1830), and Princess Margaret of Prussia (1872). After him are Prince Adalbert of Bavaria (1828), Aenne Burda (1909), Charles the Child (847), John Adolf, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp (1575), Charles II, Elector Palatine (1651), and Prince Ernest Augustus of Hanover (1914).
1740 - 1792
HPI: 57.42
Rank: 1,612
1967 - Present
HPI: 57.41
Rank: 1,613
1949 - Present
HPI: 57.39
Rank: 1,614
1948 - Present
HPI: 57.38
Rank: 1,615
1830 - 1902
HPI: 57.38
Rank: 1,616
1872 - 1954
HPI: 57.37
Rank: 1,617
1824 - 1899
HPI: 57.37
Rank: 1,618
1828 - 1875
HPI: 57.37
Rank: 1,619
1909 - 2005
HPI: 57.37
Rank: 1,620
847 - 866
HPI: 57.36
Rank: 1,621
1575 - 1616
HPI: 57.36
Rank: 1,622
1651 - 1685
HPI: 57.35
Rank: 1,623
1914 - 1987
HPI: 57.35
Rank: 1,624
Among philosophers born in Germany, Ludwig Büchner ranks 74. Before him are Karl Korsch (1886), Carl Stumpf (1848), Conrad Celtes (1459), Eugen Fink (1905), Eduard Spranger (1882), and Werner Jaeger (1888). After him are Johann Bernhard Basedow (1723), Eric Voegelin (1901), Hans Blumenberg (1920), Hermann Lotze (1817), Constantin von Tischendorf (1815), and Johannes Sturm (1507).
1886 - 1961
HPI: 58.21
Rank: 68
1848 - 1936
HPI: 58.13
Rank: 69
1459 - 1508
HPI: 57.78
Rank: 70
1905 - 1975
HPI: 57.77
Rank: 71
1882 - 1963
HPI: 57.66
Rank: 72
1888 - 1961
HPI: 57.48
Rank: 73
1824 - 1899
HPI: 57.37
Rank: 74
1723 - 1790
HPI: 57.23
Rank: 75
1901 - 1985
HPI: 57.21
Rank: 76
1920 - 1996
HPI: 57.13
Rank: 77
1817 - 1881
HPI: 57.11
Rank: 78
1815 - 1874
HPI: 56.84
Rank: 79
1507 - 1589
HPI: 56.69
Rank: 80