PHILOSOPHER

Yi Hwang

1501 - 1570

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Yi Hwang (Korean: 이황; Hanja: 李滉; 1501–1570) was a Korean philosopher, writer, and Confucian scholar of the Joseon period. He is considered the most important philosopher of Korea - he is honored by printing his portrait on the 1000 South Korean won banknote, on the reverse of which one can see an image of his school, Dosan Seowon. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Yi Hwang has received more than 178,621 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Yi Hwang is the 484th most popular philosopher (down from 445th in 2019), the 72nd most popular biography from South Korea (down from 65th in 2019) and the most popular South Korean Philosopher.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 25

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.93

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.63

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Yi Hwang ranks 484 out of 1,267. Before him are Giovanni Girolamo Saccheri, Willard Van Orman Quine, Arete of Cyrene, Yan Hui, Madhvacharya, and Agrippa the Skeptic. After him are Norberto Bobbio, Hegesias of Cyrene, Themistius, Ibn al-Rawandi, Anaxarchus, and Murray Bookchin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1501, Yi Hwang ranks 8. Before him are Gerolamo Cardano, Pope Marcellus II, Isabella of Austria, Garcilaso de la Vega, Bairam Khan, and Queen Munjeong. After him are Leonhart Fuchs, Sahib I Giray, Pietro Andrea Mattioli, Ivan Susanin, Perino del Vaga, and Hemu. Among people deceased in 1570, Yi Hwang ranks 4. Before him are Jacopo Sansovino, Francesco Primaticcio, and Francesco Melzi. After him are Paris Bordone, Philibert de l'Orme, Moses ben Jacob Cordovero, João de Barros, Frans Floris, Tielman Susato, Eleonora Gonzaga, Duchess of Urbino, and Diego Ortiz.

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In South Korea

Among people born in South Korea, Yi Hwang ranks 72 out of 1,128. Before him are Kim Jae-gyu (1926), Queen Cheorin (1837), Queen Munjeong (1501), Ri Chun-hee (1943), Toyo Ito (1941), and Charles J. Pedersen (1904). After him are Lee Kun-hee (1942), Jeong Mong-ju (1337), Heo Jun (1546), Yi I (1536), Han Duck-soo (1949), and Lee Sun-kyun (1975).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In South Korea

Among philosophers born in South Korea, Yi Hwang ranks 1. After him are Yi I (1536), Byung-Chul Han (1959), Yun Hyu (1617), and Jaegwon Kim (1934).

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