PHILOSOPHER

Anania Shirakatsi

610 - 685

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Anania Shirakatsi (Old Armenian: Անանիա Շիրակացի, Anania Širakac’i, anglicized: Ananias of Shirak) was a 7th-century Armenian polymath and natural philosopher, author of extant works covering mathematics, astronomy, geography, chronology, and other fields. Little is known for certain of his life outside of his own writings, but he is considered the father of the exact and natural sciences in Armenia—the first Armenian mathematician, astronomer, and cosmographer. A part of the Armenian Hellenizing School and one of the few secular scholars in medieval Armenia, Anania was educated primarily by Tychicus, in Trebizond. He composed science textbooks and the first known geographic work in classical Armenian (Ashkharhatsuyts), which provides detailed information about Greater Armenia, Persia and the Caucasus (Georgia and Caucasian Albania). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Anania Shirakatsi is the 507th most popular philosopher (up from 680th in 2019), the 18th most popular biography from Armenia (up from 27th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Armenian Philosopher.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Anania Shirakatsi ranks 507 out of 1,267. Before him are Jean-Luc Nancy, George Pachymeres, Homi K. Bhabha, Victor Cousin, Adam Ferguson, and Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda. After him are Nelson Goodman, Axel Honneth, A. J. Ayer, Kenneth Waltz, Valentinus, and Thomas Nagel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 610, Anania Shirakatsi ranks 5. Before him are Pope Adeodatus II, Safiyya bint Huyayy, Pope Donus, and Abdullah ibn Umar. After him are Egica, Grimoald, King of the Lombards, Pulakeshin II, and Godepert. Among people deceased in 685, Anania Shirakatsi ranks 5. Before him are Pope Benedict II, Marwan I, Constantine IV, and Ubayd Allah ibn Ziyad. After him are Catald, Ecgfrith of Northumbria, and Hlothhere of Kent.

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In Armenia

Among people born in Armenia, Anania Shirakatsi ranks 18 out of 163. Before him are Servatius of Tongeren (400), Vahagn Khachaturyan (1959), Khachatur Abovian (1805), Ashot I of Armenia (820), Armen Sarkissian (1953), and Sebeos (700). After him are Karekin II (1951), Alexander Arutiunian (1920), Hovhannes Tumanyan (1869), Djivan Gasparyan (1928), Tigranes III (-100), and Olga Chekhova (1897).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Armenia

Among philosophers born in Armenia, Anania Shirakatsi ranks 2. Before him are George Gurdjieff (1866).

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