PHILOSOPHER

Matthias Bel

1684 - 1749

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Matthias Bel or Matthias Bél (German: Matthias Bel; Hungarian: Bél Mátyás; Slovak: Matej Bel; Latin: Matthias Belius; 22–24 March(?), 1684 – 29 August 1749) was a Lutheran pastor and polymath from the Kingdom of Hungary. Bel was active in the fields of pedagogy, philosophy, philology, history, and theoretical theology; he was the founder of Hungarian geographic science and a pioneer of descriptive ethnography and economy. A leading figure in pietism. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Matthias Bel has received more than 62,003 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Matthias Bel is the 922nd most popular philosopher (down from 832nd in 2019), the 98th most popular biography from Slovakia (down from 78th in 2019) and the most popular Slovak Philosopher.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.82

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.43

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Matthias Bel ranks 922 out of 1,267. Before him are David Lewis, Peter Lamborn Wilson, Jaimini, Sengzhao, Denis Pétau, and Lars Gustafsson. After him are Dirck Coornhert, František Tomášek, Simón Rodríguez, Karl Groos, Dietrich von Hildebrand, and Vasily Rozanov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1684, Matthias Bel ranks 18. Before him are Edward Vernon, Kurt Christoph Graf von Schwerin, Charles Louis Auguste Fouquet, duc de Belle-Isle, Francesco Manfredini, Wilhelm Reinhard von Neipperg, and Jean Astruc. After him are Bohuslav Matěj Černohorský, Matthias Braun, and Johann Jacob Dillenius. Among people deceased in 1749, Matthias Bel ranks 11. Before him are Louis-Nicolas Clérambault, Jan van Huysum, Claudine Guérin de Tencin, William Jones, Mkhitar Sebastatsi, and Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel. After him are André Cardinal Destouches, Jan Frans van Bloemen, Shahu I, Catharine Trotter Cockburn, and Mark Catesby.

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In Slovakia

Among people born in Slovakia, Matthias Bel ranks 98 out of 418. Before him are Johann Kaspar Mertz (1806), Jozef Lenárt (1923), Juraj Haulik (1788), Peter Machajdík (1961), János Pálffy (1664), and Emília Vášáryová (1942). After him are Václav Ježek (1923), Viliam Široký (1902), Titus Buberník (1933), Imre Madách (1823), Ladislav Jurkemik (1953), and Juraj Herz (1934).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Slovakia

Among philosophers born in Slovakia, Matthias Bel ranks 1. After him are Ernest Nagel (1901).

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