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Hermann Samuel Reimarus

1694 - 1768

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Hermann Samuel Reimarus (22 December 1694, Hamburg – 1 March 1768, Hamburg), was a German philosopher and writer of the Enlightenment who is remembered for his Deism, the doctrine that human reason can arrive at a knowledge of God and ethics from a study of nature and our own internal reality, thus eliminating the need for religions based on revelation. He denied the supernatural origin of Christianity, and was the first influential critic to investigate the historical Jesus. According to Reimarus, Jesus was a mortal Jewish prophet, and the apostles founded Christianity as a religion separate from Jesus’ own ministry. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Hermann Samuel Reimarus is the 606th most popular philosopher (up from 614th in 2019), the 1,801st most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,756th in 2019) and the 78th most popular German Philosopher.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Hermann Samuel Reimarus ranks 606 out of 1,267. Before him are Jonathan Edwards, Jacques Ellul, Emer de Vattel, Henry Corbin, Johannes Bugenhagen, and Crates of Mallus. After him are Alfred Schmidt, Peter the Iberian, Conrad Celtes, Eduard Spranger, Silvia Federici, and Cebes.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1694, Hermann Samuel Reimarus ranks 9. Before him are Yeongjo of Joseon, Francis Hutcheson, Louis-Claude Daquin, Georg Brandt, Paul of the Cross, and Leonardo Leo. After him are Henry Pelham, Count Palatine Joseph Charles of Sulzbach, Theodore of Corsica, Charlotte Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Leopold, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen, and Johan Helmich Roman. Among people deceased in 1768, Hermann Samuel Reimarus ranks 9. Before him are Johann Joachim Winckelmann, Nicola Porpora, Laurence Sterne, Georg Brandt, Joseph-Nicolas Delisle, and Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle. After him are Francesco Maria Veracini, Louis VIII, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt, Louis Alexandre, Prince of Lamballe, François de Cuvilliés, Michel Blavet, and Alexey Bestuzhev-Ryumin.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Hermann Samuel Reimarus ranks 1,801 out of 7,253. Before him are Sebastian Vettel (1987), Ludolf Bakhuizen (1630), Josias, Hereditary Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont (1896), Princess Philippine Charlotte of Prussia (1716), Andreas Köpke (1962), and Magdalene of Brandenburg (1582). After him are Carl Gustav Carus (1789), Hugo Riemann (1849), Otto Wilhelm Hermann von Abich (1806), Johann Heinrich von Mädler (1794), Paul Troost (1878), and Frederica of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (1778).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Germany

Among philosophers born in Germany, Hermann Samuel Reimarus ranks 78. Before him are Hans Vaihinger (1852), Philipp Mainländer (1841), Karl Christian Friedrich Krause (1781), Werner Jaeger (1888), Hans Blumenberg (1920), and Constantin von Tischendorf (1815). After him are Alfred Schmidt (1931), Conrad Celtes (1459), Eduard Spranger (1882), Friedrich Albert Lange (1828), Eugen Fink (1905), and Andreas Karlstadt (1486).

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