PHILOSOPHER

Wei Yuan

1794 - 1857

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Wei Yuan (Chinese: 魏源; pinyin: Wèi Yuán; April 23, 1794 – March 26, 1857), born Wei Yuanda (魏遠達), courtesy names Moshen (默深) and Hanshi (漢士), was a Chinese scholar from Shaoyang, Hunan. He moved to Yangzhou, Jiangsu in 1831, where he remained for the rest of his life. Wei obtained the provincial degree (juren) in the Imperial examinations and subsequently worked in the secretariat of several statesmen such as Lin Zexu. Wei was deeply concerned with the crisis facing China in the early 19th century; while he remained loyal to the Qing dynasty, he also sketched a number of proposals for the improvement of the administration of the empire. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Wei Yuan is the 994th most popular philosopher (down from 985th in 2019), the 777th most popular biography from China (up from 794th in 2019) and the 41st most popular Chinese Philosopher.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Wei Yuan ranks 994 out of 1,267. Before him are Hegesias of Magnesia, Ibn Abi'l-Hadid, Pedro da Fonseca, Christian von Ehrenfels, Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar, and Fernando Savater. After him are Anniceris, Evald Ilyenkov, Tariq Ramadan, Jacques Cujas, Ram Dass, and Jaime Balmes.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1794, Wei Yuan ranks 43. Before him are Jeanne Villepreux-Power, Achille Richard, Ernst I, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, Gabriel Antonio Pereira, Joseph Lebeau, and Konstantin Thon. After him are Abbasgulu Bakikhanov, Princess Amalie of Saxony, Alexander Gordon Laing, Barthélémy de Theux de Meylandt, Leopold Zunz, and Antoine Bussy. Among people deceased in 1857, Wei Yuan ranks 46. Before him are Johann Jakob Heckel, William Amherst, 1st Earl Amherst, Manuel José Quintana, Carl Ludwig Koch, Johann Friedrich Naumann, and Abraham Jacob van der Aa. After him are Alexander Ivanovich Ostermann-Tolstoy, Juan Lindo, Johann Schweigger, Abe Masahiro, Frederick Scott Archer, and Elisha Kent Kane.

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In China

Among people born in China, Wei Yuan ranks 777 out of 1,610. Before him are Rong Yiren (1916), Emperor Xiaoming of Northern Wei (510), Chögyam Trungpa (1939), Tung Chee-hwa (1937), Thomas Tien Ken-sin (1890), and Hwang Sok-yong (1943). After him are Yikuang (1838), Yang Jiechi (1950), Li Zhanshu (1950), Tan Dun (1957), Ricky Hui (1946), and Jing Fang (-78).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In China

Among philosophers born in China, Wei Yuan ranks 41. Before him are Liu Yuxi (772), Feng Youlan (1895), Tao Hongjing (456), Tan Sitong (1865), Derek Parfit (1942), and Huang Zongxi (1610). After him are Zhang Binglin (1868), P. C. Chang (1892), and Liang Shuming (1893).

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