1632 - 1694
Samuel Freiherr von Pufendorf (8 January 1632 – 26 October 1694) was a German jurist, political philosopher, economist and historian. He was born Samuel Pufendorf and ennobled in 1694; he was made a baron by Charles XI of Sweden a few months before his death at age 62. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Samuel von Pufendorf has received more than 238,958 page views. His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 31 in 2019). Samuel von Pufendorf is the 40th most popular historian, the 466th most popular biography from Germany (up from 478th in 2019) and the 5th most popular German Historian.
Samuel von Pufendorf was a German philosopher and jurist. He is most famous for his book, "The Law of Nature and Nations," which was the first work to systematically explore the law of nations.
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Among historians, Samuel von Pufendorf ranks 40 out of 339. Before him are Edward Gibbon, William of Tyre, Ibn Ishaq, Erwin Panofsky, Leonardo Bruni, and Lucien Febvre. After him are Aby Warburg, Ernst Gombrich, Ibn Hajar al-‘Asqalani, Ali ibn al-Athir, Niketas Choniates, and Jared Diamond.
1737 - 1794
HPI: 67.84
Rank: 34
1130 - 1186
HPI: 67.64
Rank: 35
704 - 767
HPI: 67.05
Rank: 36
1892 - 1968
HPI: 67.01
Rank: 37
1370 - 1444
HPI: 66.44
Rank: 38
1878 - 1956
HPI: 66.31
Rank: 39
1632 - 1694
HPI: 66.25
Rank: 40
1866 - 1929
HPI: 65.86
Rank: 41
1909 - 2001
HPI: 65.66
Rank: 42
1372 - 1449
HPI: 65.50
Rank: 43
1160 - 1233
HPI: 65.40
Rank: 44
1155 - 1217
HPI: 65.33
Rank: 45
1937 - Present
HPI: 65.30
Rank: 46
Among people born in 1632, Samuel von Pufendorf ranks 6. Before him are John Locke, Johannes Vermeer, Baruch Spinoza, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, and Jean-Baptiste Lully. After him are Christopher Wren, Maria Leopoldine of Austria, Jean Mabillon, Francis Hyacinth, Duke of Savoy, Michael I Apafi, and Adam Frans van der Meulen. Among people deceased in 1694, Samuel von Pufendorf ranks 4. Before him are Mary II of England, Matsuo Bashō, and Marcello Malpighi. After him are Antoine Arnauld, Natalya Naryshkina, Suleiman of Persia, Ranuccio II Farnese, Duke of Parma, Francesco Morosini, John George IV, Elector of Saxony, Vittoria della Rovere, and Pierre Puget.
1632 - 1704
HPI: 88.31
Rank: 1
1632 - 1675
HPI: 85.26
Rank: 2
1632 - 1677
HPI: 82.22
Rank: 3
1632 - 1723
HPI: 79.56
Rank: 4
1632 - 1687
HPI: 75.10
Rank: 5
1632 - 1694
HPI: 66.25
Rank: 6
1632 - 1723
HPI: 65.88
Rank: 7
1632 - 1649
HPI: 61.16
Rank: 8
1632 - 1707
HPI: 60.96
Rank: 9
1632 - 1638
HPI: 57.18
Rank: 10
1632 - 1690
HPI: 55.90
Rank: 11
1632 - 1690
HPI: 55.28
Rank: 12
1662 - 1694
HPI: 80.89
Rank: 1
1644 - 1694
HPI: 75.69
Rank: 2
1628 - 1694
HPI: 68.56
Rank: 3
1632 - 1694
HPI: 66.25
Rank: 4
1612 - 1694
HPI: 62.88
Rank: 5
1651 - 1694
HPI: 62.76
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1647 - 1694
HPI: 61.33
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1630 - 1694
HPI: 60.56
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1619 - 1694
HPI: 60.35
Rank: 9
1668 - 1694
HPI: 58.64
Rank: 10
1622 - 1694
HPI: 58.63
Rank: 11
1620 - 1694
HPI: 57.88
Rank: 12
Among people born in Germany, Samuel von Pufendorf ranks 466 out of 6,142. Before him are Emil Nolde (1867), Jean Paul (1763), Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld (1911), Wilhelm Maybach (1846), Anna Magdalena Bach (1701), and Johann Gottfried Galle (1812). After him are Rudolf Dassler (1898), Henri Nestlé (1814), Hedwig of Silesia (1174), Wilhelm Mohnke (1911), Elisabeth of Bavaria, Queen of Belgium (1876), and Ernst Lubitsch (1892).
1867 - 1956
HPI: 66.38
Rank: 460
1763 - 1825
HPI: 66.38
Rank: 461
1911 - 2004
HPI: 66.33
Rank: 462
1846 - 1929
HPI: 66.32
Rank: 463
1701 - 1760
HPI: 66.32
Rank: 464
1812 - 1910
HPI: 66.27
Rank: 465
1632 - 1694
HPI: 66.25
Rank: 466
1898 - 1974
HPI: 66.24
Rank: 467
1814 - 1890
HPI: 66.23
Rank: 468
1174 - 1243
HPI: 66.22
Rank: 469
1911 - 2001
HPI: 66.21
Rank: 470
1876 - 1965
HPI: 66.19
Rank: 471
1892 - 1947
HPI: 66.18
Rank: 472
Among historians born in Germany, Samuel von Pufendorf ranks 5. Before him are Johann Joachim Winckelmann (1717), Leopold von Ranke (1795), Friedrich Carl von Savigny (1779), and Erwin Panofsky (1892). After him are Aby Warburg (1866), Adam of Bremen (null), Erich Auerbach (1892), Julius Wellhausen (1844), Hieronymus Wolf (1516), Arthur Moeller van den Bruck (1876), and Hermann Alexander Diels (1848).
1717 - 1768
HPI: 71.11
Rank: 1
1795 - 1886
HPI: 70.32
Rank: 2
1779 - 1861
HPI: 68.56
Rank: 3
1892 - 1968
HPI: 67.01
Rank: 4
1632 - 1694
HPI: 66.25
Rank: 5
1866 - 1929
HPI: 65.86
Rank: 6
HPI: 64.24
Rank: 7
1892 - 1957
HPI: 61.19
Rank: 8
1844 - 1918
HPI: 60.55
Rank: 9
1516 - 1580
HPI: 58.79
Rank: 10
1876 - 1925
HPI: 58.58
Rank: 11
1848 - 1922
HPI: 58.46
Rank: 12