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Alfonso Reyes

1889 - 1959

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Alfonso Reyes Ochoa (17 May 1889 in Monterrey, Nuevo León – 27 December 1959 in Mexico City) was a Mexican writer, philosopher and diplomat. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature five times and has been acclaimed as one of the greatest authors in the Spanish language. He served as ambassador of Mexico to Argentina and Brazil. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Alfonso Reyes is the 1,046th most popular philosopher (down from 1,012th in 2019), the 194th most popular biography from Mexico (down from 179th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Mexican Philosopher.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Alfonso Reyes ranks 1,046 out of 1,267. Before him are Aristobulus of Alexandria, Michel Onfray, Thrasyllus of Mendes, Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, Seyla Benhabib, and Persaeus. After him are David of Dinant, Friedrich Wilhelm Foerster, Joseph Raz, Mary Whiton Calkins, Carl Dahlhaus, and Johann Eduard Erdmann.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1889, Alfonso Reyes ranks 187. Before him are Ralph H. Fowler, Jean-Baptiste Janssens, Otto Tief, Otto Deßloch, Heinrich Campendonk, and Hans Felber. After him are Grigory Levenfish, Emma Asson, Gottfried Fuchs, Zofia Zamenhof, Georg Schrimpf, and Erick-Oskar Hansen. Among people deceased in 1959, Alfonso Reyes ranks 127. Before him are Heleno de Freitas, Edmund Goulding, Charles Starkweather, Felix Jacoby, Albert Namatjira, and Nicholas Charnetsky. After him are Carl Enckell, Ion Gigurtu, Alfonso López Pumarejo, Lou Costello, Ali-Akbar Dehkhoda, and William J. Donovan.

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In Mexico

Among people born in Mexico, Alfonso Reyes ranks 194 out of 729. Before him are Miguel Pro (1891), Julio César Chávez (1962), Juan de Oñate (1550), Lupita Tovar (1910), Manuel Álvarez Bravo (1902), and Tomás Balcázar (1931). After him are Ignacio López Tarso (1925), Rosie Reyes (1939), Arturo Ripstein (1943), Norberto Rivera Carrera (1942), José Alfredo Jiménez (1926), and José Ruiz (1904).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Mexico

Among philosophers born in Mexico, Alfonso Reyes ranks 2. Before him are Nezahualcoyotl (1402).

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