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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 58,217 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Matthias Bel is the 832nd most popular philosopher (up from 844th in 2019), the 78th most popular biography from Slovakia (up from 81st in 2019) and the most popular Slovak Philosopher.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Matthias Bel ranks 832 out of 1,081Before him are Ervin László, Eberhard August Wilhelm von Zimmermann, Ferenc Dávid, Gregory of Tatev, Apollodorus the Epicurean, and Alain Finkielkraut. After him are Paul de Man, Thomas Arnold, Alcidamas, Syrianus, Albinus, and Menedemus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1684, Matthias Bel ranks 15Before him are Edward Vernon, Kurt Christoph Graf von Schwerin, Robert Maynard, Jean Astruc, Charles Louis Auguste Fouquet, duc de Belle-Isle, and Wilhelm Reinhard von Neipperg. After him are Jean-Baptiste van Loo, Bohuslav Matěj Černohorský, Francesco Manfredini, and Matthias Braun. Among people deceased in 1749, Matthias Bel ranks 9Before him are Adel Shah, Alessandro Magnasco, Louis-Nicolas Clérambault, William Jones, Jan van Huysum, and Claudine Guérin de Tencin. After him are Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel, Jan Frans van Bloemen, Mkhitar Sebastatsi, André Cardinal Destouches, Shahu I, and Mark Catesby.

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In Slovakia

Among people born in Slovakia, Matthias Bel ranks 78 out of 357Before him are Archduchess Isabella of Austria (1888), Štefan Tiso (1897), Artúr Görgei (1818), Vladimír Dzurilla (1942), Slavoljub Eduard Penkala (1871), and Iveta Radičová (1956). After him are János Pálffy (1664), Johann Kaspar Mertz (1806), Juraj Jakubisko (1938), Marián Čalfa (1946), Imre Madách (1823), and Vasiľ Biľak (1917).

Among PHILOSOPHERS In Slovakia

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