PHILOSOPHER

Jean-Marie Guyau

1854 - 1888

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Jean-Marie Guyau (28 October 1854 – 31 March 1888) was a French philosopher and poet. Guyau was inspired by the philosophies of Epicurus, Epictetus, Plato, Immanuel Kant, Herbert Spencer, and Alfred Fouillée, and the poetry and literature of Pierre Corneille, Victor Hugo, and Alfred de Musset. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jean-Marie Guyau is the 573rd most popular philosopher (up from 676th in 2019), the 1,804th most popular biography from France (up from 2,137th in 2019) and the 73rd most popular French Philosopher.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Jean-Marie Guyau ranks 573 out of 1,267Before him are Hans Vaihinger, Hu Shih, Philipp Mainländer, Nancy Fraser, Agrippa the Skeptic, and Antonio Labriola. After him are Nicos Poulantzas, Étienne-Gabriel Morelly, María Zambrano, Karl Christian Friedrich Krause, Alan Watts, and Pierre Charron.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1854, Jean-Marie Guyau ranks 29Before him are Léo Taxil, Duchess Marie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Yan Fu, Georges Picquart, Alphonse Allais, and Georg Kerschensteiner. After him are Hubert Lyautey, Thomas R. Marshall, Otto Sverdrup, Alfredo Catalani, Lady Randolph Churchill, and Edward Carson. Among people deceased in 1888, Jean-Marie Guyau ranks 22Before him are Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, Theodor Storm, Ascanio Sobrero, Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen, Auguste Maquet, and Ali Rıza Efendi. After him are Nicholas Miklouho-Maclay, Mary Jane Kelly, Ludvig Nobel, Edward Lear, Mary Ann Nichols, and Annie Chapman.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jean-Marie Guyau ranks 1,804 out of 6,770Before him are François-Michel le Tellier, Marquis de Louvois (1641), Eustace III, Count of Boulogne (1060), Henri Cornet (1884), Jean-Baptiste Pigalle (1714), Joseph Fesch (1763), and Christian III, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken (1674). After him are Countess Palatine Caroline of Zweibrücken (1721), Jean de Meun (1240), David d'Angers (1788), Prince Jean, Duke of Guise (1874), Constant Troyon (1810), and Georg Muffat (1653).

Among PHILOSOPHERS In France

Among philosophers born in France, Jean-Marie Guyau ranks 73Before him are Emmanuel Mounier (1905), Jean-Luc Nancy (1940), Victor Cousin (1792), Michel Serres (1930), Gersonides (1288), and William of Champeaux (1070). After him are Étienne-Gabriel Morelly (1717), Pierre Charron (1541), Georges Canguilhem (1904), Jean Hyppolite (1907), Jacques Ellul (1912), and Henry Corbin (1903).