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Johannes Nikolaus Tetens

1736 - 1807

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Johannes Nikolaus Tetens (also Johann; Danish: Johan Nicolai Tetens; 16 September 1736 – 17 August 1807) was a German-Danish philosopher, statistician and scientist. He has been called the "German Locke," on the basis of a comparison of his major work Philosophische Versuche über die menschliche Natur und ihre Entwickelung (1777) with the work of John Locke. He is considered to have been an influence on Immanuel Kant. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Johannes Nikolaus Tetens is the 774th most popular philosopher (down from 658th in 2019), the 2,528th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,936th in 2019) and the 99th most popular German Philosopher.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Johannes Nikolaus Tetens ranks 774 out of 1,267. Before him are Zhang Zai, Hermarchus, Denis de Rougemont, Calcidius, Lucien Goldmann, and Helmuth Plessner. After him are Kazimierz Twardowski, Hui Shi, Michel Henry, William Heard Kilpatrick, Athenodorus Cananites, and Yeshayahu Leibowitz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1736, Johannes Nikolaus Tetens ranks 17. Before him are Louis Joseph, Prince of Condé, Franz Xaver Messerschmidt, Friedrich Kasimir Medikus, Anton Graff, Edward Waring, and Maria, Duchess of Gloucester and Edinburgh. After him are Infanta Maria Ana Francisca of Portugal, Patrick Henry, Sir John Acton, 6th Baronet, Carl Friedrich Christian Fasch, Daniel Morgan, and Juan Bautista de Anza. Among people deceased in 1807, Johannes Nikolaus Tetens ranks 17. Before him are John Newton, Friedrich Melchior, Baron von Grimm, Nikolai Rezanov, Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau, Jacob Philipp Hackert, and Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Herbst. After him are Jeremias Benjamin Richter, Jean-François Rewbell, Louis Auguste Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, Alexander Ypsilantis, Franciszek Smuglewicz, and Sophie von La Roche.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Johannes Nikolaus Tetens ranks 2,529 out of 7,253. Before him are Frederick I, Duke of Anhalt (1831), George, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (1779), Helmuth Plessner (1892), Prince Georg Friedrich of Waldeck (1620), Paul Kummer (1834), and Dorothea of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg (1636). After him are Johann Caspar Kerll (1627), Christoph Schneider (1966), John Albert II (1590), Princess Sophie Charlotte of Brandenburg-Bayreuth (1713), Alexander Lippisch (1894), and Johann Michael Bach (1648).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Germany

Among philosophers born in Germany, Johannes Nikolaus Tetens ranks 99. Before him are F. C. S. Schiller (1864), Ferdinand Christian Baur (1792), Joseph Dietzgen (1828), Arnold Ruge (1802), Theodor Lessing (1872), and Helmuth Plessner (1892). After him are Theodor Lipps (1851), Friedrich Adolf Trendelenburg (1802), Friedrich Pollock (1894), Paul de Lagarde (1827), Leo Löwenthal (1900), and Franz Xaver von Baader (1765).

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