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PHILOSOPHER

Martianus Capella

360 - 428

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Martianus Minneus Felix Capella (fl. c. 410–420) was a jurist, polymath and Latin prose writer of late antiquity, one of the earliest developers of the system of the seven liberal arts that structured early medieval education. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Martianus Capella has received more than 249,105 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 31 in 2019). Martianus Capella is the 339th most popular philosopher (down from 326th in 2019), the 24th most popular biography from Algeria (down from 18th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Algerian Philosopher.

Martianus Capella is most famous for his work the "De nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii" which is a commentary on the seven liberal arts.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Martianus Capella ranks 339 out of 1,081. Before him are Hwang Jini, Francisco de Vitoria, Antoine Arnauld, Juan Luis Vives, Jacques Rancière, and Edgar Morin. After him are Strato of Lampsacus, Lev Shestov, Yi I, E. H. Carr, Wang Yangming, and Hermann Cohen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 360, Martianus Capella ranks 3. Before him are Pelagius and John Cassian. After him are Sulpicius Severus and Ninian. Among people deceased in 428, Martianus Capella ranks 1. After him are Gunderic and Theodore of Mopsuestia.

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In Algeria

Among people born in Algeria, Martianus Capella ranks 24 out of 184. Before him are Princess Charlotte, Duchess of Valentinois (1898), Houari Boumédiène (1932), Marcel Cerdan (1916), Abdelkader Bensalah (1941), Jacques Rancière (1940), and Juba I of Numidia (-85). After him are Ferhat Abbas (1899), Claude Cohen-Tannoudji (1933), Syphax (-250), Bernard-Henri Lévy (1948), Ptolemy of Mauretania (-9), and Marlène Jobert (1940).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Algeria

Among philosophers born in Algeria, Martianus Capella ranks 5. Before him are Augustine of Hippo (354), Jacques Derrida (1930), Louis Althusser (1918), and Jacques Rancière (1940). After him are Marcus Cornelius Fronto (100), Priscian (500), and Émile Boirac (1851).

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