PHILOSOPHER

Paul Johann Anselm Ritter von Feuerbach

1775 - 1833

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Paul Johann Anselm Ritter von Feuerbach (14 November 1775 – 29 May 1833) was a German legal scholar. His major achievement was a reform of the Bavarian penal code which led to the abolition of torture and became a model for several other countries. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Paul Johann Anselm Ritter von Feuerbach has received more than 66,269 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Paul Johann Anselm Ritter von Feuerbach is the 406th most popular philosopher (down from 405th in 2019), the 1,009th most popular biography from Germany (up from 1,018th in 2019) and the 55th most popular German Philosopher.

Paul Johann Anselm Ritter von Feuerbach is most famous for his work in the field of comparative anatomy, and for his discovery of the intermaxillary bone in humans.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Paul Johann Anselm Ritter von Feuerbach ranks 406 out of 1,267. Before him are Archelaus, Timon of Phlius, Chantal Mouffe, Leszek Kołakowski, Christian Thomasius, and Eubulides. After him are Brunetto Latini, Peter Sloterdijk, Phaedo of Elis, Franciscus Patricius, Franz Rosenzweig, and Eudemus of Rhodes.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1775, Paul Johann Anselm Ritter von Feuerbach ranks 10. Before him are J. M. W. Turner, Louis Antoine, Duke of Angoulême, Lucien Bonaparte, Eugène François Vidocq, Bahadur Shah Zafar, and Carlota Joaquina of Spain. After him are Adam Albert von Neipperg, Georg Friedrich Grotefend, Ching Shih, François-Adrien Boieldieu, Étienne-Louis Malus, and Matthew Lewis. Among people deceased in 1833, Paul Johann Anselm Ritter von Feuerbach ranks 12. Before him are Adrien-Marie Legendre, Seraphim of Sarov, William Wilberforce, Ram Mohan Roy, Hugh Glass, and Jean-Baptiste Jourdan. After him are Pierre-Narcisse Guérin, Pierre André Latreille, Abbas Mirza, Michał Kleofas Ogiński, Adamantios Korais, and Edmund Kean.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Paul Johann Anselm Ritter von Feuerbach ranks 1,009 out of 7,253. Before him are Johann Friedrich Overbeck (1789), Christian Thomasius (1655), Emil Erlenmeyer (1825), Zwentibold (870), John George, Elector of Brandenburg (1525), and Augustus, Elector of Saxony (1526). After him are Peter Sloterdijk (1947), Manuel Neuer (1986), Herbert Gille (1897), Maximilian de Beauharnais, 3rd Duke of Leuchtenberg (1817), Heinrich Gustav Magnus (1802), and Emil Jellinek (1853).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Germany

Among philosophers born in Germany, Paul Johann Anselm Ritter von Feuerbach ranks 55. Before him are Wilhelm Windelband (1848), Gershom Scholem (1897), Leo Strauss (1899), Karl Rahner (1904), Karl Robert Eduard von Hartmann (1842), and Christian Thomasius (1655). After him are Peter Sloterdijk (1947), Franz Rosenzweig (1886), Henry Suso (1295), Johannes Althusius (1563), Paul Natorp (1854), and Hans Reichenbach (1891).

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