PHILOSOPHER

Richard Crashaw

1612 - 1649

Richard Crashaw

Richard Crashaw (c. 1613 – 21 August 1649) was an English poet, teacher, High Church Anglican cleric and Roman Catholic convert, who was one of the major metaphysical poets in 17th-century English literature. Crashaw was the son of a famous Anglican divine with Puritan beliefs, William Crashaw, who earned a reputation as a hard-hitting pamphleteer and polemicist against Catholicism. After his father's death, Crashaw was educated at Charterhouse School and Pembroke College, Cambridge. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Richard Crashaw is the 1,243rd most popular philosopher (down from 1,242nd in 2019), the 5,588th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 5,523rd in 2019) and the 99th most popular British Philosopher.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Richard Crashaw ranks 1,243 out of 1,267. Before him are Roderick Chisholm, Peter Kreeft, Richard David Precht, Christine Korsgaard, Ruth Barcan Marcus, and Will Kymlicka. After him are Nancy Cartwright, Norman Malcolm, Nel Noddings, Rosemary Radford Ruether, Leonard Peikoff, and Kwame Anthony Appiah.

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Roderick Chisholm
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HPI: 51.77
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HPI: 51.70
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HPI: 51.37
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1952 - Present
HPI: 51.36
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Ruth Barcan Marcus
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HPI: 51.16
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Will Kymlicka
1962 - Present
HPI: 51.09
Rank: 1,242
Richard Crashaw
1612 - 1649
HPI: 50.83
Rank: 1,243
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1944 - Present
HPI: 50.45
Rank: 1,244
Norman Malcolm
1911 - 1990
HPI: 50.44
Rank: 1,245
Nel Noddings
1929 - 2022
HPI: 50.28
Rank: 1,246
Rosemary Radford Ruether
1936 - 2022
HPI: 50.05
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1933 - Present
HPI: 49.95
Rank: 1,248
Kwame Anthony Appiah
1954 - Present
HPI: 49.81
Rank: 1,249

Contemporaries

Among people born in 1612, Richard Crashaw ranks 27. Before him are Louis, Duke of Vendôme, Henry Casimir I of Nassau-Dietz, August Philipp, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck, Anne Bradstreet, Marcus Zuerius van Boxhorn, and Pier Francesco Mola. Among people deceased in 1649, Richard Crashaw ranks 19. Before him are Vincenzo Carafa, John Winthrop, Giulio Alenio, Jean de Brébeuf, Juan Martínez Montañés, and Elisabeth Magdalena of Pomerania.

Others Born in 1612

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Louis, Duke of Vendôme
NOBLEMAN
1612 - 1669
HPI: 60.77
Rank: 21
Henry Casimir I of Nassau-Dietz
POLITICIAN
1612 - 1640
HPI: 59.55
Rank: 22
August Philipp, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck
POLITICIAN
1612 - 1675
HPI: 58.14
Rank: 23
Anne Bradstreet
WRITER
1612 - 1672
HPI: 56.74
Rank: 24
Marcus Zuerius van Boxhorn
LINGUIST
1612 - 1653
HPI: 55.98
Rank: 25
Pier Francesco Mola
PAINTER
1612 - 1666
HPI: 55.95
Rank: 26
Richard Crashaw
PHILOSOPHER
1612 - 1649
HPI: 50.83
Rank: 27

Others Deceased in 1649

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Vincenzo Carafa
RELIGIOUS FIGURE
1594 - 1649
HPI: 59.16
Rank: 13
John Winthrop
WRITER
1588 - 1649
HPI: 59.13
Rank: 14
Giulio Alenio
RELIGIOUS FIGURE
1582 - 1649
HPI: 58.51
Rank: 15
Jean de Brébeuf
RELIGIOUS FIGURE
1593 - 1649
HPI: 58.26
Rank: 16
Juan Martínez Montañés
SCULPTOR
1568 - 1649
HPI: 57.74
Rank: 17
Elisabeth Magdalena of Pomerania
NOBLEMAN
1580 - 1649
HPI: 56.55
Rank: 18
Richard Crashaw
PHILOSOPHER
1612 - 1649
HPI: 50.83
Rank: 19