PHILOSOPHER

Adam Weishaupt

1748 - 1830

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Johann Adam Weishaupt (pronounced [ˈjoːhan ˈʔaːdam ˈvaɪshaʊpt]; 6 February 1748 – 18 November 1830) was a German philosopher, professor of civil law and later canon law, and founder of the Bavarian Illuminati. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Adam Weishaupt is the 252nd most popular philosopher (down from 199th in 2019), the 509th most popular biography from Germany (down from 346th in 2019) and the 37th most popular German Philosopher.

Adam Weishaupt is most famous for being the founder of the Illuminati.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Adam Weishaupt ranks 252 out of 1,267. Before him are Pelagius, Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, Shen Kuo, Imre Lakatos, Bias of Priene, and Cleanthes. After him are Cratylus, Isaiah Berlin, Arcesilaus, Roger Garaudy, Pherecydes of Syros, and Donald Davidson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1748, Adam Weishaupt ranks 9. Before him are Charles XIII of Sweden, Charles IV of Spain, Louis Jean Pierre Vieillot, Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès, Olympe de Gouges, and Claude Louis Berthollet. After him are Antoine Laurent de Jussieu, William V, Prince of Orange, Johann Friedrich Gmelin, Adamantios Korais, Anders Sparrman, and Christian Gottlob Neefe. Among people deceased in 1830, Adam Weishaupt ranks 7. Before him are George IV of the United Kingdom, Pope Pius VIII, Simón Bolívar, Joseph Fourier, Francis I of the Two Sicilies, and Benjamin Constant. After him are Carlota Joaquina of Spain, Antonio José de Sucre, Laurent de Gouvion Saint-Cyr, Louis I, Grand Duke of Hesse, Thomas Lawrence, and Louis Henri, Prince of Condé.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Adam Weishaupt ranks 509 out of 7,253. Before him are Duchess Mathilde Ludovika in Bavaria (1843), Erwin Panofsky (1892), Heinrich Brüning (1885), Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742), Johannes Rau (1931), and Hans von Aachen (1552). After him are Louise of Hesse-Kassel (1817), Wied, Prince of Albania (1876), Hans Luther (1879), Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi (1804), Jost Gippert (1956), and Jean Paul (1763).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Germany

Among philosophers born in Germany, Adam Weishaupt ranks 37. Before him are Max Horkheimer (1895), Rudolf Carnap (1891), Moses Mendelssohn (1729), Ernst Bloch (1885), Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi (1743), and Franz Brentano (1838). After him are Johann Reuchlin (1455), Karl Robert Eduard von Hartmann (1842), Hans Jonas (1903), Rudolf Bultmann (1884), Bruno Bauer (1809), and Moritz Schlick (1882).

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