1895 - 1975
Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin ( bukh-TEEN; Russian: Михаи́л Миха́йлович Бахти́н, IPA: [mʲɪxɐˈil mʲɪˈxajləvʲɪtɕ bɐxˈtʲin]; 16 November [O.S. 4 November] 1895 – 7 March 1975) was a Russian philosopher, literary critic and scholar who worked on literary theory, ethics, and the philosophy of language. His writings, on a variety of subjects, inspired scholars working in a number of different traditions (Marxism, semiotics, structuralism, religious criticism) and in disciplines as diverse as literary criticism, history, philosophy, sociology, anthropology and psychology. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mikhail Bakhtin has received more than 1,108,423 page views. His biography is available in 53 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 52 in 2019). Mikhail Bakhtin is the 160th most popular philosopher (down from 154th in 2019), the 107th most popular biography from Russia (down from 95th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Russian Philosopher.
Mikhail Bakhtin is most famous for his work on the dialogic novel. The dialogic novel is a novel that is written in the form of a dialogue. He also wrote on the carnivalesque, which is a type of literature that has a festive atmosphere.
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Among philosophers, Mikhail Bakhtin ranks 160 out of 1,081. Before him are Louis Althusser, Ernst Cassirer, Christian Wolff, Adam Weishaupt, Ferdinand Tönnies, and Max Stirner. After him are Padmasambhava, Cesare Beccaria, Carl Schmitt, Friedrich Schleiermacher, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and Marshall McLuhan.
1918 - 1990
HPI: 70.23
Rank: 154
1874 - 1945
HPI: 70.18
Rank: 155
1679 - 1754
HPI: 70.12
Rank: 156
1748 - 1830
HPI: 70.09
Rank: 157
1855 - 1936
HPI: 70.08
Rank: 158
1806 - 1856
HPI: 69.99
Rank: 159
1895 - 1975
HPI: 69.93
Rank: 160
717 - 762
HPI: 69.92
Rank: 161
1738 - 1794
HPI: 69.88
Rank: 162
1888 - 1985
HPI: 69.86
Rank: 163
1768 - 1834
HPI: 69.85
Rank: 164
1908 - 1961
HPI: 69.85
Rank: 165
1911 - 1980
HPI: 69.83
Rank: 166
Among people born in 1895, Mikhail Bakhtin ranks 14. Before him are Anna Freud, J. Edgar Hoover, Santiago Bernabéu Yeste, Wilm Hosenfeld, Nikolai Yezhov, and Ernst Jünger. After him are Max Horkheimer, Semyon Timoshenko, Amin al-Husseini, Paul Hindemith, Paul Éluard, and Dolores Ibárruri. Among people deceased in 1975, Mikhail Bakhtin ranks 15. Before him are Aristotle Onassis, Otto Skorzeny, Umm Kulthum, Arnold J. Toynbee, Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, and Faisal of Saudi Arabia. After him are Gustav Ludwig Hertz, Saint-John Perse, George Paget Thomson, Josemaría Escrivá, Graham Hill, and Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
1895 - 1982
HPI: 70.72
Rank: 8
1895 - 1972
HPI: 70.52
Rank: 9
1895 - 1978
HPI: 70.31
Rank: 10
1895 - 1952
HPI: 70.26
Rank: 11
1895 - 1940
HPI: 70.16
Rank: 12
1895 - 1998
HPI: 70.03
Rank: 13
1895 - 1975
HPI: 69.93
Rank: 14
1895 - 1973
HPI: 69.54
Rank: 15
1895 - 1970
HPI: 69.31
Rank: 16
1895 - 1974
HPI: 69.24
Rank: 17
1895 - 1963
HPI: 68.91
Rank: 18
1895 - 1952
HPI: 68.79
Rank: 19
1895 - 1989
HPI: 68.59
Rank: 20
1906 - 1975
HPI: 73.17
Rank: 9
1908 - 1975
HPI: 73.06
Rank: 10
1898 - 1975
HPI: 72.22
Rank: 11
1889 - 1975
HPI: 71.26
Rank: 12
1888 - 1975
HPI: 70.19
Rank: 13
1906 - 1975
HPI: 70.01
Rank: 14
1895 - 1975
HPI: 69.93
Rank: 15
1887 - 1975
HPI: 69.23
Rank: 16
1887 - 1975
HPI: 67.75
Rank: 17
1892 - 1975
HPI: 66.93
Rank: 18
1902 - 1975
HPI: 66.50
Rank: 19
1929 - 1975
HPI: 65.75
Rank: 20
1920 - 1975
HPI: 65.29
Rank: 21
Among people born in Russia, Mikhail Bakhtin ranks 107 out of 3,262. Before him are Nikolai Yezhov (1895), Shamil, 3rd Imam of Dagestan (1797), Vasily Chuikov (1900), Svetlana Alliluyeva (1926), Sergey Kirov (1886), and Otto Wallach (1847). After him are Mikhail Sholokhov (1905), Ivan VI of Russia (1740), Lev Kamenev (1883), Vasili III of Russia (1479), Nikolai Bukharin (1888), and Nadezhda Krupskaya (1869).
1895 - 1940
HPI: 70.16
Rank: 101
1797 - 1871
HPI: 70.10
Rank: 102
1900 - 1982
HPI: 70.06
Rank: 103
1926 - 2011
HPI: 70.05
Rank: 104
1886 - 1934
HPI: 69.99
Rank: 105
1847 - 1931
HPI: 69.95
Rank: 106
1895 - 1975
HPI: 69.93
Rank: 107
1905 - 1984
HPI: 69.93
Rank: 108
1740 - 1764
HPI: 69.91
Rank: 109
1883 - 1936
HPI: 69.85
Rank: 110
1479 - 1533
HPI: 69.77
Rank: 111
1888 - 1938
HPI: 69.74
Rank: 112
1869 - 1939
HPI: 69.74
Rank: 113
Among philosophers born in Russia, Mikhail Bakhtin ranks 3. Before him are Immanuel Kant (1724) and Mikhail Bakunin (1814). After him are Georgi Plekhanov (1856), Vladimir Solovyov (1853), Alexandre Koyré (1892), Alexandre Kojève (1902), Johann Georg Hamann (1730), Yuri Lotman (1922), Sergei Bulgakov (1871), Ivan Ilyin (1883), and Johann Christoph Gottsched (1700).
1724 - 1804
HPI: 90.76
Rank: 1
1814 - 1876
HPI: 77.80
Rank: 2
1895 - 1975
HPI: 69.93
Rank: 3
1856 - 1918
HPI: 68.32
Rank: 4
1853 - 1900
HPI: 65.59
Rank: 5
1892 - 1964
HPI: 63.23
Rank: 6
1902 - 1968
HPI: 61.94
Rank: 7
1730 - 1788
HPI: 61.84
Rank: 8
1922 - 1993
HPI: 59.86
Rank: 9
1871 - 1944
HPI: 57.76
Rank: 10
1883 - 1954
HPI: 57.68
Rank: 11
1700 - 1766
HPI: 56.55
Rank: 12