PHILOSOPHER

Bernard Bolzano

1781 - 1848

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Bernard Bolzano (UK: , US: ; German: [bɔlˈtsaːno]; Italian: [bolˈtsaːno]; born Bernardus Placidus Johann Nepomuk Bolzano; 5 October 1781 – 18 December 1848) was a Bohemian mathematician, logician, philosopher, theologian and Catholic priest of Italian extraction, also known for his liberal views. Bolzano wrote in German, his native language. For the most part, his work came to prominence posthumously. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Bernard Bolzano is the 188th most popular philosopher (down from 186th in 2019), the 43rd most popular biography from Czechia and the 4th most popular Czech Philosopher.

Bernard Bolzano is most famous for his work in the fields of mathematical logic and philosophy.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Bernard Bolzano ranks 188 out of 1,267. Before him are Cesare Beccaria, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Claude Adrien Helvétius, Jean Baudrillard, Sextus Empiricus, and José Ortega y Gasset. After him are Gemistus Pletho, Pierre Gassendi, Pierre Bayle, Kabir, Apollonius of Tyana, and Ernest Renan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1781, Bernard Bolzano ranks 3. Before him are George Stephenson, and Eugène de Beauharnais. After him are Karl Friedrich Schinkel, Siméon Denis Poisson, Louis Joseph, Dauphin of France, René Laennec, Adelbert von Chamisso, David Brewster, Stamford Raffles, William I of Württemberg, and Achim von Arnim. Among people deceased in 1848, Bernard Bolzano ranks 9. Before him are Emily Brontë, Christian VIII of Denmark, François-René de Chateaubriand, George Stephenson, John Quincy Adams, and Caroline Herschel. After him are Ibrahim Pasha of Egypt, Vissarion Belinsky, María Isabella of Spain, Nicolas Oudinot, Mohammad Shah Qajar, and Khachatur Abovian.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Bernard Bolzano ranks 43 out of 1,200. Before him are Max Brod (1884), Ottokar II of Bohemia (1233), Gerty Cori (1896), Peter Grünberg (1939), Jan Palach (1948), and Miloš Zeman (1944). After him are Klement Gottwald (1896), Karl Kautsky (1854), Adolf Loos (1870), Johann Palisa (1848), Bohuslav Martinů (1890), and Václav Klaus (1941).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Czechia

Among philosophers born in Czechia, Bernard Bolzano ranks 4. Before him are John Amos Comenius (1592), Edmund Husserl (1859), and Hans Kelsen (1881). After him are Karl Kautsky (1854), Jerome of Prague (1379), Jan Patočka (1907), Vilém Flusser (1920), Karel Kosík (1926), František Tomášek (1899), Tomáš Halík (1948), and Theodor Gomperz (1832).

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