PHILOSOPHER

Theodor Benfey

1809 - 1881

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This is about the German philologist. For Theodor Benfey (born 1925) who developed a spiral periodic table of the elements in 1964, see Otto Theodor Benfey. Theodor Benfey (German: [ˈteːodoːɐ̯ ˈbɛnfaɪ]; 28 January 1809, in Nörten near Göttingen – 26 June 1881, in Göttingen) was a German philologist and scholar of Sanskrit. His works, particularly his Sanskrit-English dictionary, formed a major contribution to Sanskrit studies. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Theodor Benfey is the 1,091st most popular philosopher (down from 1,040th in 2019), the 4,376th most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,963rd in 2019) and the 139th most popular German Philosopher.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Theodor Benfey ranks 1,091 out of 1,267. Before him are Luciano Floridi, Max Dessoir, Georg Anton Friedrich Ast, Karl Ludwig von Haller, Julián Marías, and Clémence Royer. After him are Cleopatra the Alchemist, John Scott Haldane, Eugenio Garin, Alexander Men, Jean Cavaillès, and Ivan Kireyevsky.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1809, Theodor Benfey ranks 59. Before him are Santiago Derqui, Cyrus McCormick, Johann Heinrich Blasius, Nicolaas Pieneman, James David Forbes, and Petrus Borel. After him are Aleksey Koltsov, William B. Travis, Andon Bedros IX Hassoun, Karl Bodmer, Thomas Campbell Eyton, and Louis Meijer. Among people deceased in 1881, Theodor Benfey ranks 69. Before him are Ercole Dembowski, Mary Seacole, Andrei Zhelyabov, Ambrose Burnside, Franz Felix Adalbert Kuhn, and Florian Ceynowa. After him are Jean-Baptiste Nothomb, Salvador Jovellanos, Gustav von Alvensleben, Jānis Cimze, Wilhelm Matthias Naeff, and George Borrow.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Theodor Benfey ranks 4,378 out of 7,253. Before him are Philip, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp (1570), Heinrich von Sybel (1817), Sylvester Groth (1958), Manfred Burgsmüller (1949), Oscar Kreuzer (1887), and Sven Väth (1964). After him are Eberhard Diepgen (1941), Adolph Strecker (1822), Boris Papandopulo (1906), Martin Mutschmann (1879), Gottfried August Homilius (1714), and Peter Dietrich (1944).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Germany

Among philosophers born in Germany, Theodor Benfey ranks 139. Before him are Friedrich Eduard Beneke (1798), Robert Spaemann (1927), Martin Chemnitz (1522), Immanuel Hermann Fichte (1796), Max Dessoir (1867), and Georg Anton Friedrich Ast (1778). After him are Hermann Gunkel (1862), Wilhelm Gesenius (1786), Josef Pieper (1904), Adolf Grünbaum (1923), Dieter Henrich (1927), and Friedrich Gogarten (1887).

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