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Christian Wolff

1679 - 1754

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Christian Wolff (; less correctly Wolf, German: [vɔlf]; also known as Wolfius; ennobled as Christian Freiherr von Wolff in 1745; 24 January 1679 – 9 April 1754) was a German philosopher. Wolff is characterized as one of the most eminent German philosophers between Leibniz and Kant. His life work spanned almost every scholarly subject of his time, displayed and unfolded according to his demonstrative-deductive, mathematical method, which some deem the peak of Enlightenment rationality in Germany. Wolff wrote in German as his primary language of scholarly instruction and research, although he did translate his works into Latin for his transnational European audience. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Christian Wolff is the 198th most popular philosopher (down from 146th in 2019), the 71st most popular biography from Poland (down from 39th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Polish Philosopher.

Christian Wolff was a German mathematician who is best known for his work in the calculus of variations.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Christian Wolff ranks 198 out of 1,267. Before him are Kabir, Apollonius of Tyana, Ernest Renan, Nicolas Malebranche, John Rawls, and Max Horkheimer. After him are Diotima of Mantinea, Slavoj Žižek, Karl Kautsky, Étienne Bonnot de Condillac, Diogenes of Apollonia, and Jean-François Lyotard.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1679, Christian Wolff ranks 1. After him are Leopold, Duke of Lorraine, Jan Dismas Zelenka, Antonio Farnese, Duke of Parma, Charles III William, Margrave of Baden-Durlach, Pierre Fauchard, Woodes Rogers, Jean François de Troy, Princess Magdalena Augusta of Anhalt-Zerbst, Friedrich Wilhelm, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen, Firmin Abauzit, and Pietro Filippo Scarlatti. Among people deceased in 1754, Christian Wolff ranks 3. Before him are Mahmud I, and Abraham de Moivre. After him are Ludvig Holberg, Henry Fielding, Maria Anna of Austria, Jacopo Riccati, Giovanni Battista Piazzetta, Henry Pelham, Maria Teresa Felicitas d'Este, Safdar Jang, and Christian August, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Christian Wolff ranks 71 out of 1,694. Before him are Konstantin Rokossovsky (1896), Zbigniew Brzezinski (1928), Gustav Fechner (1801), John II Casimir Vasa (1609), Friedrich Bergius (1884), and Andrzej Wajda (1926). After him are Emil von Behring (1854), Yitzhak Shamir (1915), Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906), Werner von Blomberg (1878), Ladislaus I of Hungary (1046), and Erwin von Witzleben (1881).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Poland

Among philosophers born in Poland, Christian Wolff ranks 7. Before him are Arthur Schopenhauer (1788), Johann Gottfried Herder (1744), Zygmunt Bauman (1925), Friedrich Schleiermacher (1768), Ernst Cassirer (1874), and Jakob Böhme (1575). After him are Judah Loew ben Bezalel (1512), Alfred Tarski (1901), Günther Anders (1902), Heinrich Rickert (1863), Paul Tillich (1886), and Leszek Kołakowski (1927).

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