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PHILOSOPHER

Wilhelm Gesenius

1786 - 1842

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Heinrich Friedrich Wilhelm Gesenius (3 February 1786 – 23 October 1842) was a German orientalist, lexicographer, Christian Hebraist, Lutheran theologian, Biblical scholar and critic. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Wilhelm Gesenius has received more than 102,797 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia. Wilhelm Gesenius is the 1,001st most popular philosopher (down from 941st in 2019), the 3,682nd most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,264th in 2019) and the 121st most popular German Philosopher.

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  • 20

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Wilhelm Gesenius ranks 1,001 out of 1,081. Before him are Barrington Moore Jr., Robert Spaemann, Derek Prince, Tirumalai Krishnamacharya, Achille Mbembe, and Patricia Churchland. After him are Hector Boece, Tariq Ramadan, Rüdiger Safranski, Friedrich Wilhelm Foerster, Ivan Aksakov, and Yun Hyu.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1786, Wilhelm Gesenius ranks 44. Before him are Sergey Uvarov, William R. King, Alexey Fyodorovich Orlov, Carl Friedrich von Ledebour, Auguste de Montferrand, and Moshoeshoe I. After him are José Joaquín Prieto, Andreas Metaxas, Pavel Schilling, Henry Bishop, José María Vargas, and Rudolph Schadow. Among people deceased in 1842, Wilhelm Gesenius ranks 32. Before him are Pierre Baillot, Shah Shujah Durrani, Robert Smith, Leona Vicario, Christoph Ernst Friedrich Weyse, and Nodira. After him are James Ivory, Aleksey Koltsov, Letitia Christian Tyler, Henry Shrapnel, William Ellery Channing, and Archibald Menzies.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Wilhelm Gesenius ranks 3,682 out of 6,142. Before him are Angela Gossow (1974), Johann Most (1846), Hans Bauer (1927), Friedrich Wilhelm, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen (1679), Jacques Loeb (1859), and Louis IV, Landgrave of Hesse-Marburg (1537). After him are Moritz Cantor (1829), Friedrich August Theodor Winnecke (1835), Jörg Immendorff (1945), Hakan Çalhanoğlu (1994), Dorothee Sölle (1929), and Friedrich Wilhelm, Prince of Hohenzollern (1924).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Germany

Among philosophers born in Germany, Wilhelm Gesenius ranks 121. Before him are Carl Dahlhaus (1928), Rudolf Stammler (1856), Heymann Steinthal (1823), Josef Pieper (1904), Friedrich Paulsen (1846), and Robert Spaemann (1927). After him are Rüdiger Safranski (1945), Friedrich Wilhelm Foerster (1869), Gottlob Ernst Schulze (1761), Immanuel Hermann Fichte (1796), Paul Deussen (1845), and Martin Chemnitz (1522).

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