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Jan Patočka

1907 - 1977

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Jan Patočka (Czech pronunciation: [ˈpatot͡ʃka]; 1 June 1907 – 13 March 1977) was a Czech philosopher. Having studied in Prague, Paris, Berlin, and Freiburg, he was one of the last pupils of Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger. In Freiburg he also developed a lifelong philosophical friendship with Husserl's assistant Eugen Fink. Patočka worked in the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic for almost his entire career, but never joined the Communist Party and was affected by persecution, which ended in his death as a dissident spokesperson of Charter 77. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jan Patočka is the 539th most popular philosopher (up from 545th in 2019), the 185th most popular biography from Czechia (down from 182nd in 2019) and the 7th most popular Czech Philosopher.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Jan Patočka ranks 539 out of 1,267. Before him are Carl Stumpf, Gianni Vattimo, Myia, Charles W. Morris, Marpa Lotsawa, and Crates of Athens. After him are Annemarie Schimmel, Ammonius Hermiae, Salomon Maimon, Luis de Molina, Albert of Saxony, and Karl Leonhard Reinhold.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1907, Jan Patočka ranks 83. Before him are Hans Martin Sutermeister, Daigoro Kondo, Albert Gore Sr., Pierre Mendès France, Fabian von Schlabrendorff, and John G. Trump. After him are Marcel Bezençon, Mehdi Bazargan, Jean Hyppolite, Franz Jägerstätter, René Char, and Antonín Puč. Among people deceased in 1977, Jan Patočka ranks 55. Before him are Gudrun Ensslin, Sepp Herberger, Oskar Morgenstern, Prince Xavier of Bourbon-Parma, Hans Martin Sutermeister, and Leopold Stokowski. After him are Olave Baden-Powell, Hamida Djandoubi, Taqi al-Din al-Nabhani, Princess Margaretha of Sweden, Félix Gouin, and Juan Velasco Alvarado.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Jan Patočka ranks 185 out of 1,200. Before him are Petr Čech (1982), Dana Zátopková (1922), Archduke Eugen of Austria (1863), Herbert Lom (1917), Ottokar Czernin (1872), and Eduard Bloch (1872). After him are Oldřich, Duke of Bohemia (970), Vlastimil Hort (1944), Petr Fiala (1964), Margaret of Bohemia, Queen of Hungary (1335), Karel Zeman (1910), and Tomáš Rosický (1980).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Czechia

Among philosophers born in Czechia, Jan Patočka ranks 7. Before him are John Amos Comenius (1592), Edmund Husserl (1859), Hans Kelsen (1881), Bernard Bolzano (1781), Karl Kautsky (1854), and Jerome of Prague (1379). After him are Vilém Flusser (1920), Karel Kosík (1926), František Tomášek (1899), Tomáš Halík (1948), Theodor Gomperz (1832), and Herbert Feigl (1902).

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