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Jean Bodin

1530 - 1596

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Jean Bodin (; French: [ʒɑ̃ bɔdɛ̃]; c. 1530 – 1596) was a French jurist and political philosopher, member of the Parlement of Paris and professor of law in Toulouse. Bodin lived during the aftermath of the Protestant Reformation and wrote against the background of religious conflict in France. He seemed to be a nominal Catholic throughout his life but was critical of papal authority over governments. Known for his theory of sovereignty, he favoured the strong central control of a national monarchy as an antidote to factional strife. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jean Bodin is the 100th most popular philosopher (down from 95th in 2019), the 202nd most popular biography from France (down from 173rd in 2019) and the 10th most popular French Philosopher.

Jean Bodin is most famous for his book, The Six Books of the Republic, which is a treatise on the best form of government.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Jean Bodin ranks 100 out of 1,267. Before him are Aristippus, George Berkeley, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, Carl von Clausewitz, Jacques Derrida, and Walter Benjamin. After him are Al-Tabari, Friedrich Fröbel, Roger Bacon, Boethius, Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab, and George Gurdjieff.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1530, Jean Bodin ranks 2. Before him is Ivan the Terrible. After him are Yasuke, Grace O'Malley, Étienne de La Boétie, Jean Nicot, Uesugi Kenshin, Louis, Prince of Condé, Johann Wilhelm, Duke of Saxe-Weimar, Anastasia Romanovna, Ruy López de Segura, and Jan Kochanowski. Among people deceased in 1596, Jean Bodin ranks 2. Before him is Francis Drake. After him are Anna Jagiellon, Koca Sinan Pasha, Blaise de Vigenère, Pellegrino Tibaldi, George I, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt, Giaches de Wert, Hamnet Shakespeare, Pierre Pithou, and George Peele.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jean Bodin ranks 202 out of 6,770. Before him are Pierre Bourdieu (1930), Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis (1792), Henry II of England (1133), Alain Prost (1955), Théodore Géricault (1791), and Baldwin I, Latin Emperor (1172). After him are Stéphane Mallarmé (1842), Philip VI of France (1293), Charles Gounod (1818), Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord (1754), Zinedine Zidane (1972), and Jean-Marie Le Pen (1928).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In France

Among philosophers born in France, Jean Bodin ranks 10. Before him are Michel de Montaigne (1533), Michel Foucault (1926), Henri Bergson (1859), Peter Abelard (1079), Roland Barthes (1915), and Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (1809). After him are Gilles Deleuze (1925), Henri de Saint-Simon (1760), Simone Weil (1909), Charles Fourier (1772), Paul Ricœur (1913), and Marquis de Condorcet (1743).

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