1868 - 1951
Émile-Auguste Chartier (French: [ʃaʁtje]; 3 March 1868 – 2 June 1951), commonly known as Alain ([alɛ̃]), was a French philosopher, journalist, essayist, pacifist, and teacher of philosophy. He adopted his pseudonym as the most banal he could find. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Émile Chartier has received more than 132,782 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Émile Chartier is the 493rd most popular philosopher (down from 475th in 2019), the 1,529th most popular biography from France (down from 1,403rd in 2019) and the 69th most popular French Philosopher.
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Among philosophers, Émile Chartier ranks 493 out of 1,081. Before him are Annemarie Schimmel, Antiochus of Ascalon, Antoine Destutt de Tracy, Priscian, Valentinus, and Peter Deunov. After him are Yan Hui, Theodorus the Atheist, Kenneth Waltz, Thomas Nagel, Axel Honneth, and Tom Regan.
1922 - 2003
HPI: 58.84
Rank: 487
130 BC - 68 BC
HPI: 58.84
Rank: 488
1754 - 1836
HPI: 58.80
Rank: 489
500 - 600
HPI: 58.78
Rank: 490
100 - 160
HPI: 58.74
Rank: 491
1864 - 1944
HPI: 58.74
Rank: 492
1868 - 1951
HPI: 58.73
Rank: 493
521 BC - 490 BC
HPI: 58.68
Rank: 494
340 BC - 250 BC
HPI: 58.67
Rank: 495
1924 - 2013
HPI: 58.66
Rank: 496
1937 - Present
HPI: 58.64
Rank: 497
1949 - Present
HPI: 58.63
Rank: 498
1938 - 2017
HPI: 58.57
Rank: 499
Among people born in 1868, Émile Chartier ranks 54. Before him are Alfred Weber, Princess Anastasia of Montenegro, Gustav Noske, Pompeu Fabra, Franz Ritter von Epp, and Empress Dowager Longyu. After him are Jane Avril, Olga Knipper, Princess Victoria of the United Kingdom, Paul Otlet, Henry Bergman, and Ernst Linder. Among people deceased in 1951, Émile Chartier ranks 35. Before him are Robert J. Flaherty, Princess Hélène of Orléans, Empress Teimei, Andrei Platonov, Willem Mengelberg, and Élie Cartan. After him are Fritz Thyssen, Sadegh Hedayat, Soh Jaipil, Erich Naumann, Kijūrō Shidehara, and Nikolai Medtner.
1868 - 1958
HPI: 59.90
Rank: 48
1868 - 1935
HPI: 59.66
Rank: 49
1868 - 1946
HPI: 59.55
Rank: 50
1868 - 1948
HPI: 59.53
Rank: 51
1868 - 1947
HPI: 59.24
Rank: 52
1868 - 1913
HPI: 58.78
Rank: 53
1868 - 1951
HPI: 58.73
Rank: 54
1868 - 1943
HPI: 58.73
Rank: 55
1868 - 1959
HPI: 58.64
Rank: 56
1868 - 1935
HPI: 58.51
Rank: 57
1868 - 1944
HPI: 58.16
Rank: 58
1868 - 1946
HPI: 58.07
Rank: 59
1868 - 1943
HPI: 58.06
Rank: 60
1884 - 1951
HPI: 59.59
Rank: 29
1871 - 1951
HPI: 59.39
Rank: 30
1884 - 1951
HPI: 59.36
Rank: 31
1899 - 1951
HPI: 59.21
Rank: 32
1871 - 1951
HPI: 58.85
Rank: 33
1869 - 1951
HPI: 58.83
Rank: 34
1868 - 1951
HPI: 58.73
Rank: 35
1873 - 1951
HPI: 58.52
Rank: 36
1903 - 1951
HPI: 58.25
Rank: 37
1864 - 1951
HPI: 58.14
Rank: 38
1905 - 1951
HPI: 57.82
Rank: 39
1872 - 1951
HPI: 57.64
Rank: 40
1879 - 1951
HPI: 57.14
Rank: 41
Among people born in France, Émile Chartier ranks 1,529 out of 6,011. Before him are Mahaut, Countess of Artois (1269), Jacqueline, Countess of Hainaut (1401), Louis Marchand (1669), Fulk III, Count of Anjou (970), Theobald III, Count of Champagne (1179), and Isabella, Duchess of Lorraine (1400). After him are Jane Avril (1868), Antoine Barnave (1761), Aegidius (450), Armand de Vignerot du Plessis (1696), Guillaume de Beaujeu (1300), and Countess Palatine Caroline of Zweibrücken (1721).
1269 - 1329
HPI: 58.78
Rank: 1,523
1401 - 1436
HPI: 58.78
Rank: 1,524
1669 - 1732
HPI: 58.77
Rank: 1,525
970 - 1040
HPI: 58.76
Rank: 1,526
1179 - 1201
HPI: 58.76
Rank: 1,527
1400 - 1453
HPI: 58.74
Rank: 1,528
1868 - 1951
HPI: 58.73
Rank: 1,529
1868 - 1943
HPI: 58.73
Rank: 1,530
1761 - 1793
HPI: 58.71
Rank: 1,531
450 - 465
HPI: 58.71
Rank: 1,532
1696 - 1788
HPI: 58.70
Rank: 1,533
1300 - 1291
HPI: 58.69
Rank: 1,534
1721 - 1774
HPI: 58.69
Rank: 1,535
Among philosophers born in France, Émile Chartier ranks 69. Before him are Michel Serres (1930), Alain de Benoist (1943), Petrus Ramus (1515), Pierre Duhem (1861), William of Champeaux (1070), and Antoine Destutt de Tracy (1754). After him are Victor Cousin (1792), Guillaume Budé (1467), Berengar of Tours (998), Georges Canguilhem (1904), Jacques Ellul (1912), and Étienne Balibar (1942).
1930 - 2019
HPI: 59.97
Rank: 63
1943 - Present
HPI: 59.78
Rank: 64
1515 - 1572
HPI: 59.63
Rank: 65
1861 - 1916
HPI: 59.51
Rank: 66
1070 - 1121
HPI: 58.95
Rank: 67
1754 - 1836
HPI: 58.80
Rank: 68
1868 - 1951
HPI: 58.73
Rank: 69
1792 - 1867
HPI: 58.33
Rank: 70
1467 - 1540
HPI: 58.15
Rank: 71
998 - 1088
HPI: 57.90
Rank: 72
1904 - 1995
HPI: 57.48
Rank: 73
1912 - 1994
HPI: 57.35
Rank: 74
1942 - Present
HPI: 57.30
Rank: 75