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PHILOSOPHER

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 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.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Ludwig Büchner ranks 558 out of 1,081Before 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.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1824, Ludwig Büchner ranks 22Before 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 17Before 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.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Ludwig Büchner ranks 1,618 out of 6,142Before 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).

Among PHILOSOPHERS In Germany

Among philosophers born in Germany, Ludwig Büchner ranks 74Before 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).