PHILOSOPHER

Émile Chartier

1868 - 1951

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Émile-Auguste Chartier (French: [ʃaʁtje]; 3 March 1868 – 2 June 1951), commonly known as Alain ([alɛ̃]), was a French philosopher, journalist, essayist, pacifist, and teacher of philosophy. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Émile Chartier is the 650th most popular philosopher (down from 522nd in 2019), the 2,076th most popular biography from France (down from 1,591st in 2019) and the 85th most popular French Philosopher.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Émile Chartier ranks 650 out of 1,267Before him are Barlaam of Seminara, Antony Flew, Peter Deunov, Pierre Hadot, Yang Xiong, and Hemachandra. After him are Olaf Stapledon, Eric Voegelin, Jaakko Hintikka, Anton Wilhelm Amo, Stein Rokkan, and Amalric of Bena.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1868, Émile Chartier ranks 73Before him are Kantarō Suzuki, Ahmed Shawqi, Henry Bergman, James Brendan Connolly, Wilhelm Schmidt, and Francis Jammes. After him are Ernst Linder, Fakhri Pasha, Infanta Blanca of Spain, Lin Sen, José Félix Uriburu, and Keisuke Okada. Among people deceased in 1951, Émile Chartier ranks 53Before him are Robert Grant Aitken, Reggie Walker, Erich Naumann, Agrippina Vaganova, Fritz Thyssen, and François Georges-Picot. After him are Kijūrō Shidehara, John Sloan, Warner Baxter, Mikhail Borodin, Yoshio Nishina, and Osman Batur.

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In France

Among people born in France, Émile Chartier ranks 2,076 out of 6,770Before him are Princess Caroline of Hesse-Darmstadt (1746), Francis Veber (1937), Madeleine Lebeau (1923), Gabriel Naudé (1600), Paul Cornu (1881), and Paul Pogba (1993). After him are Jean Sorel (1934), Louis-Sébastien Mercier (1740), Joan of Valois, Queen of Navarre (1343), William Kennedy Dickson (1860), Charles, Prince Napoléon (1950), and Léon Brillouin (1889).

Among PHILOSOPHERS In France

Among philosophers born in France, Émile Chartier ranks 85Before him are Henry Corbin (1903), Berengar of Tours (998), Étienne Balibar (1942), Maurice Blondel (1861), Yves Bonnefoy (1923), and Pierre Hadot (1922). After him are Amalric of Bena (1150), Paul Nizan (1905), Paul Virilio (1932), Fulbert of Chartres (960), Charles Renouvier (1815), and André Glucksmann (1937).