1684 - 1749
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, Matthias Bel ranks 832 out of 1,081. Before 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.
1932 - Present
HPI: 52.89
Rank: 826
1743 - 1815
HPI: 52.89
Rank: 827
1510 - 1579
HPI: 52.87
Rank: 828
1346 - 1409
HPI: 52.85
Rank: 829
150 BC - 150 BC
HPI: 52.82
Rank: 830
1949 - Present
HPI: 52.81
Rank: 831
1684 - 1749
HPI: 52.76
Rank: 832
1919 - 1983
HPI: 52.73
Rank: 833
1795 - 1842
HPI: 52.73
Rank: 834
HPI: 52.72
Rank: 835
400 - 437
HPI: 52.70
Rank: 836
100 - 200
HPI: 52.67
Rank: 837
340 BC - 265 BC
HPI: 52.67
Rank: 838
Among people born in 1684, Matthias Bel ranks 15. Before 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 9. Before 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.
1684 - 1757
HPI: 54.71
Rank: 9
1684 - 1757
HPI: 54.47
Rank: 10
1684 - 1751
HPI: 54.21
Rank: 11
1684 - 1766
HPI: 53.79
Rank: 12
1684 - 1761
HPI: 53.16
Rank: 13
1684 - 1774
HPI: 52.90
Rank: 14
1684 - 1749
HPI: 52.76
Rank: 15
1684 - 1745
HPI: 52.31
Rank: 16
1684 - 1742
HPI: 51.17
Rank: 17
1684 - 1762
HPI: 50.67
Rank: 18
1684 - 1738
HPI: 50.01
Rank: 19
1719 - 1749
HPI: 60.42
Rank: 3
1667 - 1749
HPI: 58.42
Rank: 4
1676 - 1749
HPI: 57.20
Rank: 5
1675 - 1749
HPI: 55.65
Rank: 6
1682 - 1749
HPI: 55.58
Rank: 7
1682 - 1749
HPI: 54.20
Rank: 8
1684 - 1749
HPI: 52.76
Rank: 9
1690 - 1749
HPI: 52.25
Rank: 10
1662 - 1749
HPI: 52.23
Rank: 11
1676 - 1749
HPI: 51.66
Rank: 12
1672 - 1749
HPI: 50.63
Rank: 13
1682 - 1749
HPI: 46.95
Rank: 14
1683 - 1749
HPI: 43.00
Rank: 15
Among people born in Slovakia, Matthias Bel ranks 78 out of 357. Before 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).
1888 - 1973
HPI: 53.59
Rank: 72
1897 - 1959
HPI: 53.51
Rank: 73
1818 - 1916
HPI: 53.43
Rank: 74
1942 - 1995
HPI: 53.35
Rank: 75
1871 - 1922
HPI: 53.25
Rank: 76
1956 - Present
HPI: 53.20
Rank: 77
1684 - 1749
HPI: 52.76
Rank: 78
1664 - 1751
HPI: 52.66
Rank: 79
1806 - 1856
HPI: 52.61
Rank: 80
1938 - 2023
HPI: 52.48
Rank: 81
1946 - Present
HPI: 52.40
Rank: 82
1823 - 1864
HPI: 52.31
Rank: 83
1917 - 2014
HPI: 52.31
Rank: 84
Among philosophers born in Slovakia, Matthias Bel ranks 1. After him are Ernest Nagel (1901).