PHILOSOPHER

Theodor Benfey

1809 - 1881

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This is about the German philologist. For Theodor Benfey (born 1925) who developed a spiral periodic table of the elements in 1964, see Otto Theodor Benfey. Theodor Benfey (German: [ˈteːodoːɐ̯ ˈbɛnfaɪ]; 28 January 1809, in Nörten near Göttingen – 26 June 1881, in Göttingen) was a German philologist and scholar of Sanskrit. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Theodor Benfey has received more than 47,292 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Theodor Benfey is the 1,040th most popular philosopher, the 3,963rd most popular biography from Germany and the 130th most popular German Philosopher.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Theodor Benfey ranks 1,040 out of 1,267. Before him are Cercidas, Alexander Men, Ecphantus the Pythagorean, Mary Daly, Wilhelm Gesenius, and Carl Dahlhaus. After him are Thrasyllus of Mendes, R. M. Hare, Phaenias of Eresus, Damaris Cudworth Masham, Aesara, and Hermann Gunkel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1809, Theodor Benfey ranks 54. Before him are Oswald Heer, Louis Charles Delescluze, Rutherford Alcock, Manuel Montt, Johann Heinrich Blasius, and Benjamin Peirce. After him are James David Forbes, Santiago Derqui, Petrus Borel, Aleksey Koltsov, Ernst Rudolf von Trautvetter, and Andon Bedros IX Hassoun. Among people deceased in 1881, Theodor Benfey ranks 66. Before him are Alexandru G. Golescu, Ercole Dembowski, Aleksey Pisemsky, Andrei Zhelyabov, Édouard Drouyn de Lhuys, and Jean-Baptiste Nothomb. After him are Franz Felix Adalbert Kuhn, Mary Seacole, Florian Ceynowa, Gustav von Alvensleben, Gustav Neumann, and Wilhelm Matthias Naeff.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Theodor Benfey ranks 3,963 out of 7,253. Before him are Leopold III, Prince of Lippe (1821), Duke Georg August of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (1824), Ernest Oppenheimer (1880), Markus Söder (1967), Jacob Sturm (1771), and Carl Dahlhaus (1928). After him are Philipp Nicolai (1556), Emil von Sauer (1862), Walter Burkert (1931), Georg Buschner (1925), Hans Clarin (1929), and Conny Plank (1940).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Germany

Among philosophers born in Germany, Theodor Benfey ranks 130. Before him are Robert Spaemann (1927), Hermann Usener (1834), August Böckh (1785), Paul Deussen (1845), Wilhelm Gesenius (1786), and Carl Dahlhaus (1928). After him are Hermann Gunkel (1862), Justus Möser (1720), Immanuel Hermann Fichte (1796), Joachim Camerarius (1500), Max Dessoir (1867), and Georg Anton Friedrich Ast (1778).

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