PHILOSOPHER

Theophrastus

371 BC - 287 BC

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Theophrastus (; Ancient Greek: Θεόφραστος, romanized: Theophrastos, lit. 'godly phrased'; c. 371 – c. 287 BC) was an ancient Greek philosopher and naturalist. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Theophrastus has received more than 1,270,137 page views. His biography is available in 70 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 67 in 2019). Theophrastus is the 88th most popular philosopher (up from 101st in 2019), the 45th most popular biography from Greece (up from 52nd in 2019) and the 10th most popular Greek Philosopher.

Theophrastus was a Greek philosopher and naturalist who is most famous for his book Enquiry into Plants, which was the first systematic study of plants.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Theophrastus ranks 88 out of 1,267Before him are Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Mencius, Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab, John of Damascus, Athanasius of Alexandria, and Peter Abelard. After him are Johann Gottfried Herder, Ibn Taymiyyah, Leucippus, Walter Benjamin, Zhuang Zhou, and Pierre-Joseph Proudhon.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 371 BC, Theophrastus ranks 1After him are Phryne, and Marcus Valerius Corvus. Among people deceased in 287 BC, Theophrastus ranks 1After him are Antipater II of Macedon, and Phila.

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In Greece

Among people born in Greece, Theophrastus ranks 45 out of 1,024Before him are Solon (-638), Myron (-500), Alcibiades (-450), Draco (-650), Pyrrhus of Epirus (-318), and Polybius (-208). After him are Aristarchus of Samos (-311), Praxiteles (-395), Constantine II of Greece (1940), Peisistratos (-600), Menander (-342), and Pope Sixtus II (215).

Among PHILOSOPHERS In Greece

Among philosophers born in Greece, Theophrastus ranks 10Before him are Pythagoras (-570), Democritus (-460), Epicurus (-341), Plutarch (46), Protagoras (-486), and Gorgias (-483). After him are Antisthenes (-445), Pyrrho (-365), Isocrates (-436), Clement of Alexandria (150), Hippias (-443), and Diotima of Mantinea (-450).