PHILOSOPHER

Nicholas of Cusa

1401 - 1464

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Nicholas of Cusa (1401 – 11 August 1464), also referred to as Nicholas of Kues and Nicolaus Cusanus (), was a German Catholic bishop and polymath active as a philosopher, theologian, jurist, mathematician and astronomer. One of the first German proponents of Renaissance humanism, he made spiritual and political contributions to European culture. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Nicholas of Cusa has received more than 585,330 page views. His biography is available in 64 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 63 in 2019). Nicholas of Cusa is the 80th most popular philosopher (up from 82nd in 2019), the 92nd most popular biography from Germany (up from 101st in 2019) and the 12th most popular German Philosopher.

Nicholas of Cusa is most famous for his work on the infinite and the infinitesimal.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Nicholas of Cusa ranks 80 out of 1,267. Before him are George Berkeley, Ramakrishna, Jürgen Habermas, Xenophanes, Nagarjuna, and Carl von Clausewitz. After him are Gregory of Nazianzus, Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Mencius, Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab, John of Damascus, and Athanasius of Alexandria.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1401, Nicholas of Cusa ranks 2. Before him is Masaccio. After him are Francesco I Sforza, Jacqueline, Countess of Hainaut, Catherine of Valois, Emperor Shōkō, Charles I, Duke of Bourbon, Albert III, Duke of Bavaria, Maria of Castile, Queen of Aragon, Stephen Zápolya, Badi' al-Zaman Mirza, and Koca Davud Pasha. Among people deceased in 1464, Nicholas of Cusa ranks 2. Before him is Pope Pius II. After him are Rogier van der Weyden, Cosimo de' Medici, Emperor Yingzong of Ming, Frederick II, Elector of Saxony, Blanche II of Navarre, Zagan Pasha, Bernardo Rossellino, Catherine of Poděbrady, Desiderio da Settignano, and Bartolomeo Bon.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Nicholas of Cusa ranks 92 out of 7,253. Before him are Jürgen Habermas (1929), Heinz Guderian (1888), Gottlieb Daimler (1834), Heinrich Schliemann (1822), Carl von Clausewitz (1780), and Wilhelm Keitel (1882). After him are Joachim von Ribbentrop (1893), Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor (1050), Theodor Mommsen (1817), Gerhard Schröder (1944), Karl Lagerfeld (1933), and Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor (1368).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Germany

Among philosophers born in Germany, Nicholas of Cusa ranks 12. Before him are Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1762), Ludwig Feuerbach (1804), Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling (1775), Karl Jaspers (1883), Jürgen Habermas (1929), and Carl von Clausewitz (1780). After him are Walter Benjamin (1892), Meister Eckhart (1260), Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767), Rudolf Christoph Eucken (1846), Johann Friedrich Herbart (1776), and Hans-Georg Gadamer (1900).

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