PHILOSOPHER

Ludwig Feuerbach

1804 - 1872

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Ludwig Andreas von Feuerbach (German: [ˈluːtvɪç ˈfɔʏɐbax]; 28 July 1804 – 13 September 1872) was a German anthropologist and philosopher, best known for his book The Essence of Christianity, which provided a critique of Christianity that strongly influenced generations of later thinkers, including Charles Darwin, Karl Marx, Sigmund Freud, Friedrich Engels, Mikhail Bakunin, Richard Wagner, Frederick Douglass, and Friedrich Nietzsche. An associate of Young Hegelian circles, Feuerbach advocated anthropological materialism. Many of his philosophical writings offered a critical analysis of religion. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ludwig Feuerbach has received more than 980,429 page views. His biography is available in 73 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 70 in 2019). Ludwig Feuerbach is the 69th most popular philosopher (down from 64th in 2019), the 68th most popular biography from Germany (down from 63rd in 2019) and the 7th most popular German Philosopher.

Ludwig Feuerbach was most famous for the idea that God is simply a projection of human qualities.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Ludwig Feuerbach ranks 69 out of 1,267. Before him are Pliny the Elder, Gorgias, Edmund Husserl, Al-Kindi, Antonio Gramsci, and Johann Gottlieb Fichte. After him are Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling, Zeno of Citium, Karl Jaspers, Rudolf Steiner, George Berkeley, and Ramakrishna.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1804, Ludwig Feuerbach ranks 3. Before him are Franklin Pierce, and George Sand. After him are Johann Strauss I, Napoléon Louis Bonaparte, Benjamin Disraeli, Wilhelm Eduard Weber, Emil Lenz, Allan Kardec, Matthias Jakob Schleiden, Mongkut, and Mikhail Glinka. Among people deceased in 1872, Ludwig Feuerbach ranks 1. After him are Samuel Morse, Giuseppe Mazzini, Princess Sophie of Bavaria, Charles XV of Sweden, Théophile Gautier, Benito Juárez, Franz Grillparzer, N. F. S. Grundtvig, William Webb Ellis, Stanisław Moniuszko, and William John Macquorn Rankine.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Ludwig Feuerbach ranks 68 out of 7,253. Before him are Gerd Müller (1945), Ambrose (340), Jacques Offenbach (1819), Konrad Adenauer (1876), Erich Fromm (1900), and Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1762). After him are Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714), Albertus Magnus (1206), Clara Schumann (1819), Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling (1775), Erich von Manstein (1887), and Wilhelm Wundt (1832).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Germany

Among philosophers born in Germany, Ludwig Feuerbach ranks 7. Before him are Friedrich Nietzsche (1844), Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770), Friedrich Engels (1820), Martin Heidegger (1889), Hannah Arendt (1906), and Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1762). After him are Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling (1775), Karl Jaspers (1883), Jürgen Habermas (1929), Carl von Clausewitz (1780), Nicholas of Cusa (1401), and Walter Benjamin (1892).

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