1804 - 1872
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, and Friedrich Nietzsche.An associate of Young Hegelian circles, Feuerbach advocated atheism and 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 899,351 page views. His biography is available in 70 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 69 in 2019). Ludwig Feuerbach is the 64th most popular philosopher (down from 62nd in 2019), the 63rd most popular biography from Germany (up from 67th in 2019) and the 6th 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, Ludwig Feuerbach ranks 64 out of 1,081. Before him are Anaxagoras, Herbert Spencer, Mikhail Bakunin, Edmund Husserl, Gorgias, and Pliny the Elder. After him are Peter Abelard, George Berkeley, Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Antonio Gramsci, Karl Jaspers, and Rudolf Steiner.
500 BC - 428 BC
HPI: 78.41
Rank: 58
1820 - 1903
HPI: 78.01
Rank: 59
1814 - 1876
HPI: 77.80
Rank: 60
1859 - 1938
HPI: 77.74
Rank: 61
483 BC - 375 BC
HPI: 77.55
Rank: 62
23 - 79
HPI: 77.31
Rank: 63
1804 - 1872
HPI: 77.28
Rank: 64
1079 - 1142
HPI: 76.98
Rank: 65
1685 - 1753
HPI: 76.98
Rank: 66
1762 - 1814
HPI: 76.97
Rank: 67
1891 - 1937
HPI: 76.84
Rank: 68
1883 - 1969
HPI: 76.82
Rank: 69
1861 - 1925
HPI: 76.82
Rank: 70
Among people born in 1804, Ludwig Feuerbach ranks 1. After him are George Sand, Johann Strauss I, Benjamin Disraeli, Emil Lenz, Wilhelm Eduard Weber, Allan Kardec, Mikhail Glinka, Napoléon Louis Bonaparte, Franklin Pierce, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Richard Owen. 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, Princess Feodora of Leiningen, Franz Grillparzer, Kawakami Gensai, N. F. S. Grundtvig, and William Webb Ellis.
1804 - 1872
HPI: 77.28
Rank: 1
1804 - 1876
HPI: 76.79
Rank: 2
1804 - 1849
HPI: 76.60
Rank: 3
1804 - 1881
HPI: 69.83
Rank: 4
1804 - 1865
HPI: 69.76
Rank: 5
1804 - 1891
HPI: 69.24
Rank: 6
1804 - 1869
HPI: 68.74
Rank: 7
1804 - 1857
HPI: 68.52
Rank: 8
1804 - 1831
HPI: 68.26
Rank: 9
1804 - 1869
HPI: 68.08
Rank: 10
1804 - 1864
HPI: 66.72
Rank: 11
1804 - 1892
HPI: 66.14
Rank: 12
1804 - 1872
HPI: 77.28
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1791 - 1872
HPI: 76.69
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1805 - 1872
HPI: 73.12
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1805 - 1872
HPI: 72.01
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1826 - 1872
HPI: 68.92
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1811 - 1872
HPI: 68.41
Rank: 6
1806 - 1872
HPI: 64.88
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1807 - 1872
HPI: 62.67
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1791 - 1872
HPI: 60.98
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1834 - 1872
HPI: 60.72
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1783 - 1872
HPI: 60.67
Rank: 11
1806 - 1872
HPI: 60.57
Rank: 12
Among people born in Germany, Ludwig Feuerbach ranks 63 out of 6,142. Before him are Reinhard Heydrich (1904), Klemens von Metternich (1773), Heinrich Heine (1797), Jacques Offenbach (1819), Gerd Müller (1945), and Wilhelm Wundt (1832). After him are Martin Bormann (1900), Konrad Adenauer (1876), Erich Fromm (1900), Erich von Manstein (1887), Karl Lagerfeld (1933), and Heinrich Hertz (1857).
1904 - 1942
HPI: 78.31
Rank: 57
1773 - 1859
HPI: 78.02
Rank: 58
1797 - 1856
HPI: 77.71
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1819 - 1880
HPI: 77.67
Rank: 60
1945 - 2021
HPI: 77.43
Rank: 61
1832 - 1920
HPI: 77.34
Rank: 62
1804 - 1872
HPI: 77.28
Rank: 63
1900 - 1945
HPI: 77.28
Rank: 64
1876 - 1967
HPI: 77.27
Rank: 65
1900 - 1980
HPI: 77.25
Rank: 66
1887 - 1973
HPI: 77.23
Rank: 67
1933 - 2019
HPI: 77.15
Rank: 68
1857 - 1894
HPI: 77.14
Rank: 69
Among philosophers born in Germany, Ludwig Feuerbach ranks 6. Before him are Friedrich Nietzsche (1844), Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770), Friedrich Engels (1820), Martin Heidegger (1889), and Hannah Arendt (1906). After him are Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1762), Karl Jaspers (1883), Jürgen Habermas (1929), Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling (1775), Nicholas of Cusa (1401), and Carl von Clausewitz (1780).
1844 - 1900
HPI: 87.93
Rank: 1
1770 - 1831
HPI: 85.96
Rank: 2
1820 - 1895
HPI: 83.04
Rank: 3
1889 - 1976
HPI: 81.59
Rank: 4
1906 - 1975
HPI: 79.24
Rank: 5
1804 - 1872
HPI: 77.28
Rank: 6
1762 - 1814
HPI: 76.97
Rank: 7
1883 - 1969
HPI: 76.82
Rank: 8
1929 - Present
HPI: 76.11
Rank: 9
1775 - 1854
HPI: 75.94
Rank: 10
1401 - 1464
HPI: 75.36
Rank: 11
1780 - 1831
HPI: 75.15
Rank: 12