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PHILOSOPHER

Philo

15 BC - 45

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Philo of Alexandria (; Ancient Greek: Φίλων, romanized: Phílōn; Hebrew: יְדִידְיָה, romanized: Yəḏīḏyāh (Jedediah); c. 20 BCE – c.  50 CE), also called Philo Judaeus, was a Hellenistic Jewish philosopher who lived in Alexandria, in the Roman province of Egypt. The only event in Philo's life that can be decisively dated is his representation of the Alexandrian Jews in a delegation to the Roman emperor Caligula in 40 CE following civil strife between the Jewish and Greek communities of Alexandria. Philo was a leading writer of the Hellenistic Jewish community in Alexandria, Egypt. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Philo has received more than 1,335,672 page views. His biography is available in 55 different languages on Wikipedia (down from 56 in 2019). Philo is the 108th most popular philosopher (down from 100th in 2019), the 41st most popular biography from Egypt (down from 37th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Egyptian Philosopher.

Philo was a Jewish philosopher who lived in Alexandria, Egypt during the 1st century CE. He is most famous for his allegorical interpretations of the Hebrew Bible.

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  • 73.19

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  • 55

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  • 10.54

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.92

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Philo ranks 108 out of 1,081. Before him are Wilhelm von Humboldt, Henri de Saint-Simon, Jacques Derrida, Aristippus, Joseph Priestley, and Friedrich Fröbel. After him are Pyrrho, Meister Eckhart, Charles Fourier, Gilles Deleuze, John Venn, and Bodhidharma.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 15 BC, Philo ranks 1. After him are Germanicus and Polemon II of Pontus. Among people deceased in 45, Philo ranks 1. After him is Apion.

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    Philo

    15 BC - 45

    HPI: 73.19

    Rank: 1

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    Apion

    30 BC - 45

    HPI: 49.16

    Rank: 2

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In Egypt

Among people born in Egypt, Philo ranks 41 out of 582. Before him are Demis Roussos (1946), Menkaure (-2001), Horemheb (-1319), Cyril of Alexandria (376), Ramesses III (-1217), and Naguib Mahfouz (1911). After him are Ahmose I (-1560), Ay (-1380), Thutmose I (-1600), Ptolemy XIV of Egypt (-60), Umm Kulthum (1898), and Khufu (-2700).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Egypt

Among philosophers born in Egypt, Philo ranks 4. Before him are Origen (185), Plotinus (203), and Athanasius of Alexandria (295). After him are Muhammad Abduh (1849), Sextus Empiricus (160), Ammonius Saccas (175), John Philoponus (490), Saadia Gaon (882), Dhul-Nun al-Misri (796), Valentinus (100), and Ammonius Hermiae (440).

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