PHILOSOPHER

Alexandre Koyré

1892 - 1964

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Alexandre Koyré (; French: [kwaʁe]; born Alexandr Vladimirovich (or Volfovich) Koyra; 29 August 1892 – 28 April 1964), also anglicized as Alexander Koyre, was a French philosopher of Russian origin who wrote on the history and philosophy of science. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Alexandre Koyré is the 370th most popular philosopher (down from 364th in 2019), the 291st most popular biography from Russia (up from 295th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Russian Philosopher.

Alexandre Koyré is a historian of science who is most famous for his work on the Scientific Revolution.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Alexandre Koyré ranks 370 out of 1,267. Before him are Stilpo, Ramanuja, Maurice Halbwachs, Francisco de Vitoria, Étienne Cabet, and Wilhelm Windelband. After him are Pierre d'Ailly, Chandrakirti, Hugues Felicité Robert de Lamennais, Jacques Rancière, Macrobius, and Richard Rorty.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1892, Alexandre Koyré ranks 48. Before him are Erhard Milch, Bolesław Bierut, Władysław Anders, Andrey Yeryomenko, József Mindszenty, and Rashid Ali al-Gaylani. After him are V. Gordon Childe, Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet, Kang Pan-sok, Margaret Rutherford, Nikolai Kondratiev, and E. H. Carr. Among people deceased in 1964, Alexandre Koyré ranks 26. Before him are Karl Polanyi, Alvin York, Alexander Archipenko, Plaek Phibunsongkhram, Otto Grotewohl, and Giorgio Morandi. After him are Otto Wille Kuusinen, Henry Maitland Wilson, Paulino Alcántara, Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck, Emilio Aguinaldo, and Ernst Kretschmer.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Alexandre Koyré ranks 291 out of 3,761. Before him are Igor Smirnov (1941), Ivan Silayev (1930), Nikolay Semyonov (1896), Oleg Antonov (1906), Ivan Vladimirovich Michurin (1855), and Arthur Adamov (1908). After him are Boris Shaposhnikov (1882), Colmar Freiherr von der Goltz (1843), Natalya Naryshkina (1651), Varlam Shalamov (1907), Andrey Markov (1856), and Georgy Chicherin (1872).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Russia

Among philosophers born in Russia, Alexandre Koyré ranks 8. Before him are Mikhail Bakunin (1814), Mikhail Bakhtin (1895), Georgi Plekhanov (1856), Vladimir Solovyov (1853), Alexandre Kojève (1902), and Johann Georg Hamann (1730). After him are Ivan Ilyin (1883), Johann Christoph Gottsched (1700), Sergei Bulgakov (1871), P. D. Ouspensky (1878), Yuri Lotman (1922), and Pyotr Lavrov (1823).

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