PHILOSOPHER

Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet

1787 - 1851

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Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet (December 10, 1787 – September 10, 1851) was an American educator. Along with Laurent Clerc and Mason Cogswell, he co-founded the first permanent institution for the education of the deaf in North America, and he became its first principal. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet has received more than 404,603 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet is the 1,213th most popular philosopher (down from 1,045th in 2019), the 9,239th most popular biography from United States (down from 6,009th in 2019) and the 75th most popular American Philosopher.

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  • 19

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  • 3.38

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet ranks 1,213 out of 1,267. Before him are Walter Kaufmann, Simon Blackburn, J. J. C. Smart, Volker Zotz, Wendy Brown, and Alister McGrath. After him are George Henry Lewes, David Ray Griffin, John Gray, C. H. Dodd, Ralph Barton Perry, and Mary Midgley.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1787, Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet ranks 54. Before him are Edward Blore, Christian Ferdinand Friedrich Hochstetter, José Tomás Ovalle, Thomas Hodgskin, Thomas Say, and Josef Ludwig von Armansperg. After him are Emma Willard, John J. Crittenden, and Mary Russell Mitford. Among people deceased in 1851, Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet ranks 50. Before him are Mizuno Tadakuni, Giovanni Berchet, Joel Roberts Poinsett, William Nicol, Dean Mahomed, and Sylvester Graham. After him are Samuel George Morton, Joanna Baillie, and Levi Woodbury.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet ranks 9,239 out of 20,380. Before him are Dean Cundey (1946), Albert Pinkham Ryder (1847), Leon Shamroy (1901), Gwen Torrence (1965), Lamar Hunt (1932), and Judee Sill (1944). After him are Clyde King (1898), Peter Segal (1962), Steve Gaines (1949), Alex Hannum (1923), DJ Qualls (1978), and Roy Acuff (1903).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In United States

Among philosophers born in United States, Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet ranks 75. Before him are Robert Brandom (1950), William Alston (1921), James Burnham (1905), Alexander Berzin (1944), R. C. Sproul (1939), and Patricia Hill Collins (1948). After him are David Ray Griffin (1939), Ralph Barton Perry (1876), Charles Hartshorne (1897), Roderick Chisholm (1916), Michael Novak (1933), and Antoinette Brown Blackwell (1825).

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