1775 - 1833
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 60,540 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia. Paul Johann Anselm Ritter von Feuerbach is the 405th most popular philosopher (down from 399th in 2019), the 1,018th most popular biography from Germany (down from 955th 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, Paul Johann Anselm Ritter von Feuerbach ranks 405 out of 1,081. Before him are Charles Taylor, Nasir Khusraw, Francis Hutcheson, Jyotirao Phule, Ágnes Heller, and Étienne Cabet. After him are Paul Grice, Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, Linji Yixuan, Ban Zhao, Boetius of Dacia, and Alain de Lille.
1931 - Present
HPI: 60.89
Rank: 399
1004 - 1088
HPI: 60.89
Rank: 400
1694 - 1746
HPI: 60.89
Rank: 401
1827 - 1890
HPI: 60.87
Rank: 402
1929 - 2019
HPI: 60.83
Rank: 403
1788 - 1856
HPI: 60.77
Rank: 404
1775 - 1833
HPI: 60.75
Rank: 405
1913 - 1988
HPI: 60.71
Rank: 406
1883 - 1966
HPI: 60.68
Rank: 407
850 - 866
HPI: 60.67
Rank: 408
45 - 115
HPI: 60.66
Rank: 409
1240 - 1284
HPI: 60.61
Rank: 410
1117 - 1202
HPI: 60.57
Rank: 411
Among people born in 1775, Paul Johann Anselm Ritter von Feuerbach ranks 11. Before him are Louis Antoine, Duke of Angoulême, Eugène François Vidocq, Lucien Bonaparte, Bahadur Shah Zafar, Ching Shih, and Carlota Joaquina of Spain. After him are Georg Friedrich Grotefend, Étienne-Louis Malus, Adam Albert von Neipperg, François-Adrien Boieldieu, Antoine Charles Louis de Lasalle, and Matthew Lewis. Among people deceased in 1833, Paul Johann Anselm Ritter von Feuerbach ranks 12. Before him are Seraphim of Sarov, Marie-Antoine Carême, Ram Mohan Roy, Hugh Glass, William Wilberforce, and Jean-Baptiste Jourdan. After him are Pierre-Narcisse Guérin, Michał Kleofas Ogiński, Abbas Mirza, Pierre André Latreille, Edmund Kean, and Adamantios Korais.
1775 - 1844
HPI: 71.01
Rank: 5
1775 - 1857
HPI: 68.82
Rank: 6
1775 - 1840
HPI: 67.48
Rank: 7
1775 - 1862
HPI: 64.48
Rank: 8
1775 - 1844
HPI: 62.55
Rank: 9
1775 - 1830
HPI: 62.41
Rank: 10
1775 - 1833
HPI: 60.75
Rank: 11
1775 - 1853
HPI: 60.29
Rank: 12
1775 - 1812
HPI: 59.81
Rank: 13
1775 - 1829
HPI: 59.78
Rank: 14
1775 - 1834
HPI: 59.31
Rank: 15
1775 - 1809
HPI: 58.78
Rank: 16
1775 - 1818
HPI: 58.26
Rank: 17
1754 - 1833
HPI: 65.91
Rank: 6
1784 - 1833
HPI: 65.82
Rank: 7
1772 - 1833
HPI: 65.33
Rank: 8
1783 - 1833
HPI: 64.80
Rank: 9
1759 - 1833
HPI: 63.06
Rank: 10
1762 - 1833
HPI: 62.05
Rank: 11
1775 - 1833
HPI: 60.75
Rank: 12
1774 - 1833
HPI: 58.83
Rank: 13
1765 - 1833
HPI: 58.72
Rank: 14
1789 - 1833
HPI: 57.74
Rank: 15
1762 - 1833
HPI: 57.08
Rank: 16
1787 - 1833
HPI: 56.53
Rank: 17
1748 - 1833
HPI: 56.50
Rank: 18
Among people born in Germany, Paul Johann Anselm Ritter von Feuerbach ranks 1,018 out of 6,142. Before him are Natalia Alexeievna (1755), Francis Josias, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (1697), Waldemar Hoven (1903), Barbara Blomberg (1527), James Mayer de Rothschild (1792), and Augustus, Elector of Saxony (1526). After him are Constantin Fehrenbach (1852), Charles, Grand Duke of Baden (1786), Florian Geyer (1490), Karl Mack von Leiberich (1752), Albert I, Duke of Bavaria (1336), and Joachim Frank (1940).
1755 - 1776
HPI: 60.79
Rank: 1,012
1697 - 1764
HPI: 60.78
Rank: 1,013
1903 - 1948
HPI: 60.77
Rank: 1,014
1527 - 1597
HPI: 60.76
Rank: 1,015
1792 - 1868
HPI: 60.76
Rank: 1,016
1526 - 1586
HPI: 60.76
Rank: 1,017
1775 - 1833
HPI: 60.75
Rank: 1,018
1852 - 1926
HPI: 60.75
Rank: 1,019
1786 - 1818
HPI: 60.75
Rank: 1,020
1490 - 1525
HPI: 60.75
Rank: 1,021
1752 - 1828
HPI: 60.75
Rank: 1,022
1336 - 1404
HPI: 60.75
Rank: 1,023
1940 - Present
HPI: 60.75
Rank: 1,024
Among philosophers born in Germany, Paul Johann Anselm Ritter von Feuerbach ranks 55. Before him are Karl Robert Eduard von Hartmann (1842), Gershom Scholem (1897), Karl Rahner (1904), Johannes Althusius (1563), Paul Natorp (1854), and Christian Thomasius (1655). After him are Carl Gustav Hempel (1905), Peter Sloterdijk (1947), Hans Reichenbach (1891), Franz Rosenzweig (1886), Henry Suso (1295), and Ernst Troeltsch (1865).
1842 - 1906
HPI: 61.69
Rank: 49
1897 - 1982
HPI: 61.60
Rank: 50
1904 - 1984
HPI: 61.26
Rank: 51
1563 - 1638
HPI: 61.22
Rank: 52
1854 - 1924
HPI: 61.07
Rank: 53
1655 - 1728
HPI: 60.97
Rank: 54
1775 - 1833
HPI: 60.75
Rank: 55
1905 - 1997
HPI: 60.43
Rank: 56
1947 - Present
HPI: 60.33
Rank: 57
1891 - 1953
HPI: 60.07
Rank: 58
1886 - 1929
HPI: 59.91
Rank: 59
1295 - 1366
HPI: 59.74
Rank: 60
1865 - 1923
HPI: 59.59
Rank: 61