1870 - 1952
Maria Tecla Artemisia Montessori ( MON-tiss-OR-ee, Italian: [maˈriːa montesˈsɔːri]; August 31, 1870 – May 6, 1952) was an Italian physician and educator best known for the philosophy of education that bears her name, 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, where she graduated with honors in 1896. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Maria Montessori has received more than 1,992,261 page views. Her biography is available in 79 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 75 in 2019). Maria Montessori is the 41st most popular philosopher, the 49th most popular biography from Italy (down from 48th in 2019) and the 3rd 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 41 out of 1,089. Before her are Auguste Comte, Sun Tzu, Plutarch, Al-Ghazali, Michel de Montaigne, and Ludwig Wittgenstein. After her are Parmenides, Origen, Thomas More, Al-Farabi, Michel Foucault, and Karl Popper.
1798 - 1857
HPI: 85.46
Rank: 35
543 BC - 495 BC
HPI: 85.45
Rank: 36
46 - 127
HPI: 85.27
Rank: 37
1058 - 1111
HPI: 85.22
Rank: 38
1533 - 1592
HPI: 85.09
Rank: 39
1889 - 1951
HPI: 84.82
Rank: 40
1870 - 1952
HPI: 84.74
Rank: 41
501 BC - 470 BC
HPI: 84.61
Rank: 42
185 - 254
HPI: 84.50
Rank: 43
1478 - 1535
HPI: 84.47
Rank: 44
872 - 951
HPI: 84.41
Rank: 45
1926 - 1984
HPI: 84.34
Rank: 46
1902 - 1994
HPI: 84.29
Rank: 47
Among people born in 1870, Maria Montessori ranks 2. Before her is Vladimir Lenin. After her are Alfred Adler, Christian X of Denmark, Franz Lehár, Adolf Loos, William G. Morgan, Jean Baptiste Perrin, Albert Fish, Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, Jules Bordet, and Miguel Primo de Rivera. Among people deceased in 1952, Maria Montessori ranks 1. After her are Knut Hamsun, George VI, John Dewey, Eva Perón, Alexandra Kollontai, Chaim Weizmann, Paul Éluard, Wilm Hosenfeld, Benedetto Croce, Karen Horney, and Walter Schellenberg.
1870 - 1924
HPI: 92.52
Rank: 1
1870 - 1952
HPI: 84.74
Rank: 2
1870 - 1937
HPI: 83.57
Rank: 3
1870 - 1947
HPI: 77.81
Rank: 4
1870 - 1948
HPI: 77.65
Rank: 5
1870 - 1933
HPI: 76.77
Rank: 6
1870 - 1942
HPI: 76.56
Rank: 7
1870 - 1942
HPI: 76.25
Rank: 8
1870 - 1936
HPI: 75.57
Rank: 9
1870 - 1950
HPI: 75.07
Rank: 10
1870 - 1961
HPI: 75.03
Rank: 11
1870 - 1930
HPI: 74.94
Rank: 12
1870 - 1952
HPI: 84.74
Rank: 1
1859 - 1952
HPI: 83.61
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1895 - 1952
HPI: 83.04
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1859 - 1952
HPI: 82.66
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1919 - 1952
HPI: 81.64
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1872 - 1952
HPI: 78.05
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1874 - 1952
HPI: 77.42
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1895 - 1952
HPI: 75.82
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1895 - 1952
HPI: 75.57
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1866 - 1952
HPI: 75.38
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1885 - 1952
HPI: 75.27
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1910 - 1952
HPI: 74.39
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Among people born in Italy, Maria Montessori ranks 49 out of 4,088. Before her are Pope Pius XII (1876), Giacomo Puccini (1858), Mark Antony (-83), Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598), Gioachino Rossini (1792), and Marcus Licinius Crassus (-115). After her are Vespasian (9), Pope Gregory I (540), Parmenides (-501), Luciano Pavarotti (1935), Umberto Eco (1932), and Romulus Augustulus (460).
1876 - 1958
HPI: 85.39
Rank: 43
1858 - 1924
HPI: 85.34
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83 BC - 30 BC
HPI: 85.10
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1598 - 1680
HPI: 85.04
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1792 - 1868
HPI: 85.00
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115 BC - 53 BC
HPI: 84.86
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1870 - 1952
HPI: 84.74
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9 - 79
HPI: 84.64
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540 - 604
HPI: 84.62
Rank: 51
501 BC - 470 BC
HPI: 84.61
Rank: 52
1935 - 2007
HPI: 84.55
Rank: 53
1932 - 2016
HPI: 84.50
Rank: 54
460 - 527
HPI: 84.37
Rank: 55
Among philosophers born in Italy, Maria Montessori ranks 3. Before her are Niccolò Machiavelli (1469) and Thomas Aquinas (1225). After her are Parmenides (-501), Zeno of Elea (-490), Lucretius (-94), Empedocles (-490), Pliny the Elder (23), Antonio Gramsci (1891), Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1463), Boethius (480), and Bonaventure (1221).
1469 - 1527
HPI: 91.02
Rank: 1
1225 - 1274
HPI: 89.88
Rank: 2
1870 - 1952
HPI: 84.74
Rank: 3
501 BC - 470 BC
HPI: 84.61
Rank: 4
490 BC - 425 BC
HPI: 83.73
Rank: 5
94 BC - 55 BC
HPI: 83.17
Rank: 6
490 BC - 430 BC
HPI: 83.00
Rank: 7
23 - 79
HPI: 82.87
Rank: 8
1891 - 1937
HPI: 82.11
Rank: 9
1463 - 1494
HPI: 81.48
Rank: 10
480 - 525
HPI: 81.24
Rank: 11
1221 - 1274
HPI: 79.56
Rank: 12