PHILOSOPHER

Olof Celsius

1670 - 1756

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Olof Celsius (the elder) (19 July 1670 – 24 June 1756) was a Swedish botanist, philologist and clergyman. He was a professor at Uppsala University, Sweden. Celsius was a mentor of the botanist and scientist Carl Linnaeus. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Olof Celsius has received more than 40,543 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Olof Celsius is the 977th most popular philosopher (down from 935th in 2019).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Olof Celsius ranks 977 out of 1,267. Before him are Imran N. Hosein, Maitreyi, Egon Bondy, Samuel Clarke, Yun Hyu, and Ernest Nagel. After him are Guillaume Faye, Wilfrid Sellars, Persaeus, Anna Kingsford, Ivan Aksakov, and Gottlob Ernst Schulze.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1670, Olof Celsius ranks 17. Before him are Gustav, Duke of Zweibrücken, Danilo I, Metropolitan of Cetinje, Zheng Keshuang, Jean-Baptiste Dubos, Domenico Trezzini, and Turlough O'Carolan. After him are Banda Singh Bahadur, Julie d'Aubigny, Köprülüzade Numan Pasha, Rajaram I, William Congreve, and Anna Sophie of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg. Among people deceased in 1756, Olof Celsius ranks 11. Before him are Theodore of Corsica, Christian Ludwig II, Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Johann Gottlieb Goldberg, Princess Louise of Denmark, Princess Marie Auguste of Thurn and Taxis, and Giacomo Antonio Perti. After him is Alivardi Khan.

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