1809 - 1865
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (UK: , US: , French: [pjɛʁ ʒɔzɛf pʁudɔ̃]; 15 January 1809 – 19 January 1865) was a French socialist, politician, philosopher, and economist who founded mutualist philosophy and is considered by many to be the "father of anarchism". He was the first person to declare himself an anarchist, using that term, and is widely regarded as one of anarchism's most influential theorists. Proudhon became a member of the French Parliament after the Revolution of 1848, whereafter he referred to himself as a federalist. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Pierre-Joseph Proudhon has received more than 1,612,062 page views. His biography is available in 68 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 66 in 2019). Pierre-Joseph Proudhon is the 98th most popular philosopher (down from 89th in 2019), the 184th most popular biography from France (down from 168th in 2019) and the 9th most popular French Philosopher.
Proudhon was a French socialist and anarchist who was most famous for his work What is Property? or, an Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government.
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Among philosophers, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon ranks 98 out of 1,081. Before him are Tertullian, Johann Gottfried Herder, Anaximenes of Miletus, Walter Benjamin, Mencius, and Zhuang Zhou. After him are Roland Barthes, Ibn Taymiyyah, Theophrastus, Wilhelm von Humboldt, Henri de Saint-Simon, and Jacques Derrida.
155 - 220
HPI: 74.59
Rank: 92
1744 - 1803
HPI: 74.46
Rank: 93
585 BC - 525 BC
HPI: 74.33
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1892 - 1940
HPI: 74.25
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372 BC - 289 BC
HPI: 74.23
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369 BC - 286 BC
HPI: 74.19
Rank: 97
1809 - 1865
HPI: 74.09
Rank: 98
1915 - 1980
HPI: 73.91
Rank: 99
1263 - 1328
HPI: 73.77
Rank: 100
371 BC - 287 BC
HPI: 73.68
Rank: 101
1767 - 1835
HPI: 73.66
Rank: 102
1760 - 1825
HPI: 73.62
Rank: 103
1930 - 2004
HPI: 73.60
Rank: 104
Among people born in 1809, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon ranks 7. Before him are Charles Darwin, Edgar Allan Poe, Abraham Lincoln, Felix Mendelssohn, Louis Braille, and Nikolai Gogol. After him are Georges-Eugène Haussmann, Bruno Bauer, Albert Pike, William Ewart Gladstone, Joseph Liouville, and Alfred, Lord Tennyson. Among people deceased in 1865, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon ranks 3. Before him are Abraham Lincoln and John Wilkes Booth. After him are Leopold I of Belgium, Ignaz Semmelweis, Emil Lenz, William Rowan Hamilton, Anna Pavlovna of Russia, Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, Nicholas Alexandrovich, Tsesarevich of Russia, Christian Jürgensen Thomsen, and Heinrich Barth.
1809 - 1882
HPI: 90.67
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1809 - 1849
HPI: 86.74
Rank: 2
1809 - 1865
HPI: 85.22
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1809 - 1847
HPI: 79.90
Rank: 4
1809 - 1852
HPI: 78.84
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1809 - 1852
HPI: 77.86
Rank: 6
1809 - 1865
HPI: 74.09
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1809 - 1891
HPI: 70.17
Rank: 8
1809 - 1882
HPI: 64.51
Rank: 9
1809 - 1891
HPI: 62.56
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1809 - 1898
HPI: 62.39
Rank: 11
1809 - 1882
HPI: 62.08
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1809 - 1892
HPI: 61.97
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1809 - 1865
HPI: 85.22
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1838 - 1865
HPI: 79.24
Rank: 2
1809 - 1865
HPI: 74.09
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1790 - 1865
HPI: 73.68
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1818 - 1865
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1804 - 1865
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1805 - 1865
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1795 - 1865
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1784 - 1865
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1843 - 1865
HPI: 62.87
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1788 - 1865
HPI: 62.05
Rank: 11
1821 - 1865
HPI: 61.06
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Among people born in France, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon ranks 184 out of 6,011. Before him are Pope Urban V (1310), François Viète (1540), Prince Eugene of Savoy (1663), Louis de Broglie (1892), Gérard Depardieu (1948), and Jean-Luc Godard (1930). After him are Augustin-Louis Cauchy (1789), Alexis de Tocqueville (1805), Théodore Géricault (1791), Louis VII of France (1120), Alfred Sisley (1839), and Alfred Dreyfus (1859).
1310 - 1370
HPI: 74.32
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1540 - 1603
HPI: 74.32
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1663 - 1736
HPI: 74.30
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1892 - 1987
HPI: 74.19
Rank: 181
1948 - Present
HPI: 74.16
Rank: 182
1930 - 2022
HPI: 74.15
Rank: 183
1809 - 1865
HPI: 74.09
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1789 - 1857
HPI: 74.05
Rank: 185
1805 - 1859
HPI: 74.03
Rank: 186
1791 - 1824
HPI: 74.03
Rank: 187
1120 - 1180
HPI: 74.01
Rank: 188
1839 - 1899
HPI: 73.99
Rank: 189
1859 - 1935
HPI: 73.95
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Among philosophers born in France, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon ranks 9. Before him are Auguste Comte (1798), Michel de Montaigne (1533), Michel Foucault (1926), Henri Bergson (1859), Peter Abelard (1079), and Jean Bodin (1530). After him are Roland Barthes (1915), Henri de Saint-Simon (1760), Charles Fourier (1772), Gilles Deleuze (1925), Simone Weil (1909), and Jean Baudrillard (1929).
1798 - 1857
HPI: 83.37
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1533 - 1592
HPI: 80.18
Rank: 4
1926 - 1984
HPI: 79.32
Rank: 5
1859 - 1941
HPI: 78.59
Rank: 6
1079 - 1142
HPI: 76.98
Rank: 7
1530 - 1596
HPI: 75.37
Rank: 8
1809 - 1865
HPI: 74.09
Rank: 9
1915 - 1980
HPI: 73.91
Rank: 10
1760 - 1825
HPI: 73.62
Rank: 11
1772 - 1837
HPI: 72.99
Rank: 12
1925 - 1995
HPI: 72.99
Rank: 13
1909 - 1943
HPI: 71.23
Rank: 14
1929 - 2007
HPI: 70.57
Rank: 15