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Johann Georg Hamann

1730 - 1788

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Johann Georg Hamann (; German: [ˈhaːman]; 27 August 1730 – 21 June 1788) was a German Lutheran philosopher from Königsberg known as "the Wizard of the North" who was one of the leading figures of post-Kantian philosophy. His work was used by his student J. G. Herder as the main support of the Sturm und Drang movement, and is associated with the Counter-Enlightenment and Romanticism. He introduced Kant, also from Königsberg, to the works of both Hume – waking him from his "dogmatic slumber" – and Rousseau. Hamann was influenced by Hume, but he used his views to argue for rather than against Christianity. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Johann Georg Hamann is the 340th most popular philosopher (down from 328th in 2019), the 261st most popular biography from Russia (down from 251st in 2019) and the 7th most popular Russian Philosopher.

Johann Georg Hamann is most famous for his work as a philosopher, theologian, and literary critic. He is often considered the father of modern literary criticism.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Johann Georg Hamann ranks 340 out of 1,267. Before him are Han Yu, Jacobus Arminius, Nicolai Hartmann, Alexandre Kojève, Judith Butler, and John Searle. After him are Hunayn ibn Ishaq, Nachmanides, David Strauss, Louis Couturat, Rudolf Otto, and Anne Sullivan.

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Among people born in 1730, Johann Georg Hamann ranks 4. Before him are Alexander Suvorov, Charles Messier, and Henry Clinton. After him are Étienne Bézout, Jan Ingenhousz, Darya Nikolayevna Saltykova, Pieter Boddaert, Josiah Wedgwood, Prince Augustus Ferdinand of Prussia, Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben, and Prince Francis Xavier of Saxony. Among people deceased in 1788, Johann Georg Hamann ranks 9. Before him are Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, Thomas Gainsborough, Giovanni Antonio Scopoli, Charles Edward Stuart, Maurice Quentin de La Tour, and Jean-François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse. After him are Nicole-Reine Lepaute, José, Prince of Brazil, Infante Gabriel of Spain, Armand de Vignerot du Plessis, Duchess Augusta of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, and François Joseph Paul de Grasse.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Johann Georg Hamann ranks 261 out of 3,761. Before him are Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna of Russia (1890), Aleksey Kuropatkin (1848), Maria Eleonora of Brandenburg (1599), Alexandre Kojève (1902), Vasily Blyukher (1889), and Algirdas Julien Greimas (1917). After him are Viktor Korchnoi (1931), Viktor Vasnetsov (1848), Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich of Russia (1891), Igor Kurchatov (1903), Viktor Chernomyrdin (1938), and Duke Alexander of Württemberg (1804).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Russia

Among philosophers born in Russia, Johann Georg Hamann ranks 7. Before him are Immanuel Kant (1724), Mikhail Bakunin (1814), Mikhail Bakhtin (1895), Georgi Plekhanov (1856), Vladimir Solovyov (1853), and Alexandre Kojève (1902). After him are Alexandre Koyré (1892), Ivan Ilyin (1883), Johann Christoph Gottsched (1700), Sergei Bulgakov (1871), P. D. Ouspensky (1878), and Yuri Lotman (1922).

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