PHILOSOPHER

Yi I

1536 - 1584

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Yi I (Korean: 이이; Hanja: 李珥; 1536–1584) was a Korean philosopher, writer, and Confucian scholar of the Joseon period. Yi is often referred to by his art name Yulgok ("Chestnut valley"). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Yi I has received more than 271,934 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Yi I is the 502nd most popular philosopher (down from 342nd in 2019), the 76th most popular biography from South Korea (down from 51st in 2019) and the 2nd most popular South Korean Philosopher.

Yi i is most famous for the "Dao De Jing" or "The Way of Virtue."

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 28

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.18

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.65

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Yi I ranks 502 out of 1,267. Before him are Antiochus of Ascalon, Hermann Lotze, Shneur Zalman of Liadi, Zengzi, Gaetano Mosca, and Dicaearchus. After him are Zhang Daoling, Karl Löwith, Guillaume Budé, Antony Flew, Philo of Larissa, and Alasdair MacIntyre.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1536, Yi I ranks 3. Before him are Pope Clement VIII, and Toyotomi Hideyoshi. After him are Jeremias II of Constantinople, Ashikaga Yoshiteru, Johann VI, Count of Nassau-Dillenburg, Piotr Skarga, Ignazio Danti, Lucia Anguissola, Joachim Ernest, Prince of Anhalt, Leonardo Donato, and Balthasar Russow. Among people deceased in 1584, Yi I ranks 7. Before him are Ivan the Terrible, William the Silent, Charles Borromeo, Francis, Duke of Anjou, Bernal Díaz del Castillo, and Jan Kochanowski. After him are Balthasar Gérard, Mikołaj "the Red" Radziwiłł, Marcantonio Colonna, Mehmed II Giray, Pieter Pourbus, and Eric II, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg.

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In South Korea

Among people born in South Korea, Yi I ranks 76 out of 1,128. Before him are Toyo Ito (1941), Charles J. Pedersen (1904), Yi Hwang (1501), Lee Kun-hee (1942), Jeong Mong-ju (1337), and Heo Jun (1546). After him are Han Duck-soo (1949), Lee Sun-kyun (1975), Psy (1977), Lee Soo-man (1952), Hwang Kyo-ahn (1957), and Shin Kyuk-ho (1921).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In South Korea

Among philosophers born in South Korea, Yi I ranks 2. Before him are Yi Hwang (1501). After him are Byung-Chul Han (1959), Yun Hyu (1617), and Jaegwon Kim (1934).

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