1870 - 1952
Maria Tecla Artemisia Montessori ( MON-tiss-OR-ee, Italian: [maˈriːa montesˈsɔːri]; 31 August 1870 – 6 May 1952) was an Italian physician and educator best known for her philosophy of education and her writing on scientific pedagogy. At an early age, Montessori enrolled in classes at an all-boys technical school, with hopes of becoming an engineer. She soon had a change of heart and began medical school at the Sapienza University of Rome, becoming one of the first women to attend medical school in Italy; she graduated with honors in 1896. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Maria Montessori has received more than 3,089,255 page views. Her biography is available in 86 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 79 in 2019). Maria Montessori is the 42nd most popular philosopher (down from 41st in 2019), the 41st most popular biography from Italy (up from 49th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Italian Philosopher.
Maria Montessori is most famous for her philosophy of education. She believed that children should be allowed to develop at their own pace and have a natural curiosity about the world around them.
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Among philosophers, Maria Montessori ranks 42 out of 1,081. Before her are Laozi, Rajneesh, David Hume, Søren Kierkegaard, Protagoras, and Thomas More. After her are Sun Tzu, Plutarch, Michel de Montaigne, Origen, Al-Farabi, and Ludwig Wittgenstein.
604 BC - 600 BC
HPI: 81.11
Rank: 36
1931 - 1990
HPI: 81.09
Rank: 37
1711 - 1776
HPI: 81.09
Rank: 38
1813 - 1855
HPI: 81.07
Rank: 39
486 BC - 420 BC
HPI: 80.89
Rank: 40
1478 - 1535
HPI: 80.66
Rank: 41
1870 - 1952
HPI: 80.58
Rank: 42
544 BC - 496 BC
HPI: 80.47
Rank: 43
46 - 127
HPI: 80.42
Rank: 44
1533 - 1592
HPI: 80.18
Rank: 45
185 - 254
HPI: 80.17
Rank: 46
872 - 951
HPI: 80.09
Rank: 47
1889 - 1951
HPI: 79.92
Rank: 48
Among people born in 1870, Maria Montessori ranks 2. Before her is Vladimir Lenin. After her are Alfred Adler, Franz Lehár, Christian X of Denmark, Adolf Loos, Jean Baptiste Perrin, Jules Bordet, Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, Albert Fish, William G. Morgan, and Miguel Primo de Rivera. Among people deceased in 1952, Maria Montessori ranks 1. After her are George VI, John Dewey, Knut Hamsun, Eva Perón, Alexandra Kollontai, Wilm Hosenfeld, Chaim Weizmann, Paul Éluard, Karen Horney, Benedetto Croce, and Walter Schellenberg.
1870 - 1924
HPI: 89.94
Rank: 1
1870 - 1952
HPI: 80.58
Rank: 2
1870 - 1937
HPI: 78.40
Rank: 3
1870 - 1948
HPI: 71.23
Rank: 4
1870 - 1947
HPI: 70.61
Rank: 5
1870 - 1933
HPI: 69.62
Rank: 6
1870 - 1942
HPI: 69.37
Rank: 7
1870 - 1961
HPI: 68.55
Rank: 8
1870 - 1950
HPI: 67.96
Rank: 9
1870 - 1936
HPI: 67.74
Rank: 10
1870 - 1942
HPI: 67.73
Rank: 11
1870 - 1930
HPI: 67.49
Rank: 12
1870 - 1952
HPI: 80.58
Rank: 1
1895 - 1952
HPI: 77.75
Rank: 2
1859 - 1952
HPI: 77.23
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1859 - 1952
HPI: 77.13
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1919 - 1952
HPI: 74.99
Rank: 5
1872 - 1952
HPI: 70.61
Rank: 6
1895 - 1952
HPI: 70.26
Rank: 7
1874 - 1952
HPI: 69.85
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1895 - 1952
HPI: 68.79
Rank: 9
1885 - 1952
HPI: 68.66
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1866 - 1952
HPI: 67.30
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1910 - 1952
HPI: 67.22
Rank: 12
Among people born in Italy, Maria Montessori ranks 41 out of 4,668. Before her are Giacomo Puccini (1858), Titian (1488), Pontius Pilate (-12), Donatello (1386), Tiberius (-42), and Saint Lucy (283). After her are Pope John Paul I (1912), Pope John XXIII (1881), Gioachino Rossini (1792), Lorenzo de' Medici (1449), Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598), and Mark Antony (-83).
1858 - 1924
HPI: 81.74
Rank: 35
1488 - 1576
HPI: 81.37
Rank: 36
12 BC - 38
HPI: 81.25
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1386 - 1466
HPI: 81.02
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42 BC - 37
HPI: 80.70
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283 - 304
HPI: 80.65
Rank: 40
1870 - 1952
HPI: 80.58
Rank: 41
1912 - 1978
HPI: 80.45
Rank: 42
1881 - 1963
HPI: 80.44
Rank: 43
1792 - 1868
HPI: 80.22
Rank: 44
1449 - 1492
HPI: 80.22
Rank: 45
1598 - 1680
HPI: 79.97
Rank: 46
83 BC - 30 BC
HPI: 79.89
Rank: 47
Among philosophers born in Italy, Maria Montessori ranks 4. Before her are Niccolò Machiavelli (1469), Thomas Aquinas (1225), and Parmenides (-501). After her are Zeno of Elea (-490), Empedocles (-490), Lucretius (-94), Pliny the Elder (23), Antonio Gramsci (1891), Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1463), Boethius (480), and Tommaso Campanella (1568).
1469 - 1527
HPI: 88.12
Rank: 1
1225 - 1274
HPI: 87.11
Rank: 2
501 BC - 470 BC
HPI: 82.29
Rank: 3
1870 - 1952
HPI: 80.58
Rank: 4
490 BC - 425 BC
HPI: 79.57
Rank: 5
490 BC - 430 BC
HPI: 79.37
Rank: 6
94 BC - 55 BC
HPI: 79.18
Rank: 7
23 - 79
HPI: 77.31
Rank: 8
1891 - 1937
HPI: 76.84
Rank: 9
1463 - 1494
HPI: 75.82
Rank: 10
480 - 525
HPI: 74.92
Rank: 11
1568 - 1639
HPI: 72.31
Rank: 12