PHILOSOPHER

Anton Wilhelm Amo

1703 - 1759

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Anton Wilhelm Amo or Anthony William Amo (c. 1703 – c. 1759) was a Nzema philosopher from Axim, Dutch Gold Coast (now Ghana). Amo was a professor at the universities of Halle and Jena in Germany after studying there. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Anton Wilhelm Amo is the 654th most popular philosopher (up from 722nd in 2019), the 12th most popular biography from Ghana (down from 7th in 2019) and the most popular Ghanaian Philosopher.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Anton Wilhelm Amo ranks 654 out of 1,267. Before him are Yang Xiong, Hemachandra, Émile Chartier, Olaf Stapledon, Eric Voegelin, and Jaakko Hintikka. After him are Stein Rokkan, Amalric of Bena, Ernst Moritz Arndt, Maximus of Ephesus, Wang Bi, and Ravidas.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1703, Anton Wilhelm Amo ranks 8. Before him are François Boucher, Marie Leszczyńska, John Wesley, Louis, Duke of Orléans, Shah Waliullah Dehlawi, and Jonathan Edwards. After him are Johann Theodor of Bavaria, Frederick, Hereditary Prince of Baden-Durlach, Aleksei Chirikov, Johann Gottlieb Graun, Jean-François Séguier, and Vasily Trediakovsky. Among people deceased in 1759, Anton Wilhelm Amo ranks 9. Before him are Ferdinand VI of Spain, Pierre Louis Maupertuis, Louise Henriette de Bourbon, Anne, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange, Prince Karl Anton August of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck, and Carl Heinrich Graun. After him are Louis-Joseph de Montcalm, Jacques Claude Marie Vincent de Gournay, Sedjefakare, James Wolfe, Nicolaus I Bernoulli, and Ewald Christian von Kleist.

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In Ghana

Among people born in Ghana, Anton Wilhelm Amo ranks 12 out of 162. Before him are Nana Akufo-Addo (1944), Marcel Desailly (1968), Sylvanus Olympio (1902), Abedi Pele (1964), John Kufuor (1938), and Jerry Rawlings (1947). After him are Peter Mensah (1959), Efua Dorkenoo (1949), Michael Essien (1982), Ama Ata Aidoo (1942), Peter Poreku Dery (1918), and Clement Quartey (1938).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Ghana

Among philosophers born in Ghana, Anton Wilhelm Amo ranks 1. 

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