PHILOSOPHER

Shneur Zalman of Liadi

1745 - 1812

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Shneur Zalman of Liadi, (Hebrew: שניאור זלמן מליאדי; September 4, 1745 – December 15, 1812 O.S. / 18 Elul 5505 – 24 Tevet 5573) commonly known as the Alter Rebbe or Baal Hatanya, was a rabbi as well as the founder and first Rebbe of Chabad, a branch of Hasidic Judaism. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Shneur Zalman of Liadi has received more than 342,729 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (down from 17 in 2019). Shneur Zalman of Liadi is the 498th most popular philosopher (up from 589th in 2019), the 40th most popular biography from Belarus (up from 52nd in 2019) and the most popular Belarusian Philosopher.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Shneur Zalman of Liadi ranks 498 out of 1,267. Before him are Carl Stumpf, Karl-Otto Apel, Pierre Duhem, Gorakhnath, Antiochus of Ascalon, and Hermann Lotze. After him are Zengzi, Gaetano Mosca, Dicaearchus, Yi I, Zhang Daoling, and Karl Löwith.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1745, Shneur Zalman of Liadi ranks 14. Before him are Carl Stamitz, Johan Gottlieb Gahn, Fyodor Ushakov, Chevalier de Saint-Georges, Johan Christian Fabricius, and Mihrişah Sultan. After him are Andrianampoinimerina, Şahin Giray, Valentin Haüy, Casimir Pulaski, Gregory V of Constantinople, and George Atwood. Among people deceased in 1812, Shneur Zalman of Liadi ranks 7. Before him are Mayer Amschel Rothschild, Pyotr Bagration, Emanuel Schikaneder, Sacagawea, George Clinton, and Étienne-Louis Malus. After him are Jan Ladislav Dussek, Carl Ludwig Willdenow, Spencer Perceval, Isaac Titsingh, Hieronymus von Colloredo, and Duke George of Oldenburg.

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In Belarus

Among people born in Belarus, Shneur Zalman of Liadi ranks 40 out of 368. Before him are Marek Edelman (1922), Elena Glinskaya (1510), Rogneda of Polotsk (966), Nikolay Krestinsky (1883), Vilna Gaon (1720), and Ivan Yakubovsky (1912). After him are Aleksei Antonov (1896), Mendele Mocher Sforim (1835), Bronislava Nijinska (1891), Otto Schmidt (1891), Mikołaj "the Black" Radziwiłł (1515), and Paul Baran (1926).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Belarus

Among philosophers born in Belarus, Shneur Zalman of Liadi ranks 1. After him are Salomon Maimon (1754), Kazimierz Łyszczyński (1634), Anna Tumarkin (1875), and Joseph B. Soloveitchik (1903).

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