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Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi

1743 - 1819

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Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi (; German: [jaˈkoːbi]; 25 January 1743 – 10 March 1819) was a German philosopher, writer and socialite. He is best known for popularizing the concept of nihilism. He promoted the idea that it is the necessary result of Enlightenment thought and the philosophical systems of Baruch Spinoza, Immanuel Kant, Johann Gottlieb Fichte and Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling. Jacobi advocated Glaube (variously translated as faith or "belief") and Offenbarung (revelation) instead of speculative reason. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi is the 234th most popular philosopher (up from 268th in 2019), the 459th most popular biography from Germany (up from 567th in 2019) and the 35th most popular German Philosopher.

Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi is most famous for his contributions to the philosophy of Immanuel Kant. Jacobi was one of the first philosophers to write against Kant's philosophy, and he believed that Kant's philosophy was flawed because it did not account for the reality of the human mind.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi ranks 234 out of 1,267. Before him are Gaston Bachelard, Benedetto Croce, Al-Ash'ari, Iamblichus, Carneades, and Marshall McLuhan. After him are Paul Feyerabend, Nikolai Berdyaev, Giorgio Agamben, Michael Psellos, Prodicus, and Franz Brentano.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1743, Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi ranks 11. Before him are Luigi Boccherini, Alessandro Cagliostro, Toussaint Louverture, Marquis de Condorcet, Archduchess Maria Elisabeth of Austria, and Nicolai Abildgaard. After him are Martin Heinrich Klaproth, Carl Peter Thunberg, Prince William Henry, Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh, René Just Haüy, Joseph Banks, and Gavrila Derzhavin. Among people deceased in 1819, Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi ranks 5. Before him are James Watt, Charles IV of Spain, Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, and Maria Luisa of Parma. After him are Charles Emmanuel IV of Sardinia, Kamehameha I, Daniel Rutherford, August von Kotzebue, Honoré IV, Prince of Monaco, Catherine Pavlovna of Russia, and Jean-Mathieu-Philibert Sérurier.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi ranks 459 out of 7,253. Before him are Polykarp Kusch (1911), Ernest Augustus, Crown Prince of Hanover (1845), Maurice de Saxe (1696), Werner Herzog (1942), Fanny Mendelssohn (1805), and Wolfram von Eschenbach (1170). After him are Duchess Sophie Charlotte in Bavaria (1847), Frederick Augustus I of Saxony (1750), Maria Amalia of Saxony (1724), Martin Behaim (1459), Fritz Todt (1891), and Julius von Mayer (1814).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Germany

Among philosophers born in Germany, Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi ranks 35. Before him are Ferdinand Tönnies (1855), Carl Schmitt (1888), Max Horkheimer (1895), Rudolf Carnap (1891), Moses Mendelssohn (1729), and Ernst Bloch (1885). After him are Franz Brentano (1838), Adam Weishaupt (1748), Johann Reuchlin (1455), Karl Robert Eduard von Hartmann (1842), Hans Jonas (1903), and Rudolf Bultmann (1884).

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