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Franz Xaver von Baader

1765 - 1841

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Franz von Baader (27 March 1765 – 23 May 1841), born Benedikt Franz Xaver Baader, was a Catholic theologian, philosopher, and mining engineer from Germany. Resisting the empiricism of his day, he denounced most Western philosophy since Descartes as trending into atheism and has been considered a revival of the Scholastic school. He was an important theorist of androgyny. He was one of the most influential theologians of his age but his influence on subsequent philosophy has been less marked, and tends to be submerged into the esoteric discussions of later thinkers rather than cited explicitly in major publications. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Franz Xaver von Baader is the 843rd most popular philosopher (down from 654th in 2019), the 2,870th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,919th in 2019) and the 105th most popular German Philosopher.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Franz Xaver von Baader ranks 843 out of 1,267. Before him are Lastheneia of Mantinea, Favorinus, Léon Brunschvicg, Félix Ravaisson-Mollien, Jakob Lorber, and Bahāʾ al-dīn al-ʿĀmilī. After him are Hossein Nasr, Eberhard August Wilhelm von Zimmermann, Józef Maria Bocheński, Hans Robert Jauss, Kumārila Bhaṭṭa, and Peter John Olivi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1765, Franz Xaver von Baader ranks 23. Before him are Christiane Vulpius, Charles Hatchett, Pierre Dupont de l'Étang, Claire Lacombe, Johann Friedrich Pfaff, and Joseph Leopold Eybler. After him are Jean-Baptiste Drouet, Comte d'Erlon, Nguyễn Du, Duchess Frederica of Württemberg, Johann Gottlieb Friedrich von Bohnenberger, James Ivory, and Petrobey Mavromichalis. Among people deceased in 1841, Franz Xaver von Baader ranks 28. Before him are Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin, Bertrand Barère, Aloysius Bertrand, Peter Chanel, Felice Pasquale Baciocchi, and Princess Augusta of Prussia. After him are Agustín Gamarra, Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz, Bernhard Romberg, Peter Andreas Heiberg, Alessandro Rolla, and Louis de Freycinet.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Franz Xaver von Baader ranks 2,872 out of 7,253. Before him are İlkay Gündoğan (1990), Karin Balzer (1938), Willi Graf (1918), Charles Christian, Prince of Nassau-Weilburg (1735), Otl Aicher (1922), and Carl Hilpert (1888). After him are Robert Volkmann (1815), Carl Wilhelm Siemens (1823), Louis II, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken (1502), Christoph Amberger (1505), Greta Schröder (1891), and Otto Nerz (1892).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Germany

Among philosophers born in Germany, Franz Xaver von Baader ranks 105. Before him are Johannes Nikolaus Tetens (1736), Theodor Lipps (1851), Friedrich Adolf Trendelenburg (1802), Friedrich Pollock (1894), Paul de Lagarde (1827), and Leo Löwenthal (1900). After him are Eberhard August Wilhelm von Zimmermann (1743), Hans Robert Jauss (1921), Hans Albert (1921), August Böckh (1785), Arthur Oncken Lovejoy (1873), and Johann Heinrich Alsted (1588).

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