PHILOSOPHER

Hugues Felicité Robert de Lamennais

1782 - 1854

Photo of Hugues Felicité Robert de Lamennais

Icon of person Hugues Felicité Robert de Lamennais

Félicité Robert de La Mennais (or Lamennais, French: [lamɛnɛ]; 19 June 1782 – 27 February 1854) was a French Catholic priest, philosopher and political theorist. He was one of the most influential intellectuals of Restoration France. Lamennais is also considered the forerunner of both liberal Catholicism and Modernism. His opinions on matters of religion and government changed dramatically over the course of his life. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Hugues Felicité Robert de Lamennais is the 373rd most popular philosopher (up from 415th in 2019), the 1,045th most popular biography from France (up from 1,183rd in 2019) and the 50th most popular French Philosopher.

Hugues Felicité Robert de Lamennais is most famous for his work in the fields of religion and politics. He was a French Catholic priest who became a member of the Académie française in 1835. He was also a political activist who founded the Catholic journal L'Avenir.

Memorability Metrics

Loading...

Page views of Hugues Felicité Robert de Lamennais by language

Loading...

Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Hugues Felicité Robert de Lamennais ranks 373 out of 1,267Before him are Francisco de Vitoria, Étienne Cabet, Wilhelm Windelband, Alexandre Koyré, Pierre d'Ailly, and Chandrakirti. After him are Jacques Rancière, Macrobius, Richard Rorty, Heinrich Rickert, Thrasymachus, and Franciscus Patricius.

Most Popular Philosophers in Wikipedia

Go to all Rankings

Contemporaries

Among people born in 1782, Hugues Felicité Robert de Lamennais ranks 11Before him are Daniel Auber, John Field, Caroline Bonaparte, Maria Amalia of Naples and Sicily, Ivan Paskevich, and Maria Luisa, Duchess of Lucca. After him are Archduke John of Austria, William Miller, Vicente Guerrero, Wilhelm von Biela, Archduke Maximilian of Austria-Este, and Eugène de Mazenod. Among people deceased in 1854, Hugues Felicité Robert de Lamennais ranks 5Before him are Georg Ohm, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling, Abbas I of Egypt, and Frederick Augustus II of Saxony. After him are Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen, Johann Peter Eckermann, Charles III, Duke of Parma, Józef Elsner, Zénaïde Bonaparte, Karl Adolph von Basedow, and Fructuoso Rivera.

Others Born in 1782

Go to all Rankings

Others Deceased in 1854

Go to all Rankings

In France

Among people born in France, Hugues Felicité Robert de Lamennais ranks 1,045 out of 6,770Before him are Guillaume Brune (1763), Sigebert II (602), Magdalena of France (1443), Paul Vidal de La Blache (1845), Inessa Armand (1874), and Alys of France, Countess of Vexin (1160). After him are Marie Jeanne Baptiste of Savoy-Nemours (1644), Michel Rolle (1652), Marcel Dupré (1886), Chevalier d'Éon (1728), Philippe Ariès (1914), and Thierry Henry (1977).

Among PHILOSOPHERS In France

Among philosophers born in France, Hugues Felicité Robert de Lamennais ranks 50Before him are Lucien Lévy-Bruhl (1857), Louis Couturat (1868), René Girard (1923), Maurice Halbwachs (1877), Étienne Cabet (1788), and Pierre d'Ailly (1350). After him are Edgar Morin (1921), Antoine Arnauld (1612), Richard Avenarius (1843), Antoine Destutt de Tracy (1754), Jean Gerson (1363), and Alain de Benoist (1943).