Philosophers / Atlas
Where philosophy happened
Birthplaces and main places of work, century by century. 7 disputed or unknown birthplaces are drawn dashed.
PresocraticClassical GreekHellenistic & RomanLate AntiquityMedieval IslamicMedieval LatinEarly Modern19th century20th centuryProfileContext thinkerBirthplace uncertain
All 76 places as a list
- Hippo Regius (Annaba) AlgeriaWorked here: Augustine of Hippo
- Thagaste (Souk Ahras) AlgeriaBorn here: Augustine of Hippo
- Vienna AustriaWorked here: Franz Brentano
- Kition (Larnaca) CyprusBorn here: Zeno of Citium
- Prossnitz (Prostějov) Czech RepublicBorn here: Edmund Husserl
- Copenhagen DenmarkBorn here: Søren Kierkegaard
- Alexandria EgyptBorn here: John Philoponus
- Fustat (Cairo) EgyptWorked here: Maimonides
- Lycopolis (Asyut) EgyptBorn here: Plotinus (uncertain)
- Bec Abbey FranceWorked here: Anselm of Canterbury
- La Haye (Descartes) FranceBorn here: René Descartes
- Paris FranceBorn here: Jean-Paul SartreWorked here: Thomas Aquinas, John Duns Scotus, Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Augusta Treverorum (Trier) GermanyBorn here: Ambrose
- Berlin GermanyWorked here: Johann Gottlieb Fichte, G. W. F. Hegel
- Boppard GermanyBorn here: Franz Brentano
- Frankfurt GermanyWorked here: Arthur Schopenhauer
- Freiburg im Breisgau GermanyWorked here: Edmund Husserl, Martin Heidegger
- Göttingen GermanyWorked here: Edmund Husserl
- Halle GermanyWorked here: Christian Wolff
- Hanover GermanyBorn here: Hannah ArendtWorked here: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
- Heidelberg GermanyWorked here: Hans-Georg Gadamer
- Jena GermanyWorked here: Johann Gottlieb Fichte, G. W. F. Hegel, F. W. J. Schelling
- Leipzig GermanyBorn here: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
- Leonberg GermanyBorn here: F. W. J. Schelling
- Marburg GermanyBorn here: Hans-Georg GadamerWorked here: Martin Heidegger
- Meßkirch GermanyBorn here: Martin Heidegger
- Munich GermanyWorked here: William of Ockham, F. W. J. Schelling
- Rammenau GermanyBorn here: Johann Gottlieb Fichte
- Röcken GermanyBorn here: Friedrich Nietzsche
- Stuttgart GermanyBorn here: G. W. F. Hegel
- Abdera GreeceBorn here: Protagoras, Democritus
- Athens GreeceBorn here: Socrates, Cratylus (uncertain), Aristophanes, Xenophon, PlatoWorked here: Protagoras, Aristotle, Epicurus, Zeno of Citium, Alexander of Aphrodisias
- Nicopolis GreeceWorked here: Epictetus
- Samos GreeceBorn here: Pythagoras, Epicurus
- Stagira GreeceBorn here: Aristotle
- Alamut IranWorked here: Nasir al-Din Tusi
- Astarabad (Gorgan) IranBorn here: Mir Damad, Mir Findiriski
- Hamadan IranWorked here: Ibn Sina
- Isfahan IranWorked here: Ibn Sina, Mir Damad, Mir Findiriski
- Maragha IranWorked here: Nasir al-Din Tusi
- Ray (Rey) IranBorn here: Fakhr al-Din al-Razi
- Shiraz IranBorn here: Mulla Sadra
- Sohrevard IranBorn here: Suhrawardi
- Tus IranBorn here: al-Ghazali, Nasir al-Din Tusi
- Baghdad IraqWorked here: al-Farabi, al-Ghazali
- Aosta ItalyBorn here: Anselm of Canterbury
- Arpinum (Arpino) ItalyBorn here: Cicero
- Croton (Crotone) ItalyBorn here: Philolaus (uncertain)Worked here: Pythagoras
- Elea (Velia) ItalyBorn here: Parmenides
- Milan ItalyWorked here: Ambrose
- Roccasecca ItalyBorn here: Thomas Aquinas
- Rome ItalyBorn here: Lucretius (uncertain), BoethiusWorked here: Cicero, Musonius Rufus, Plotinus, Porphyry
- Volsinii (Bolsena) ItalyBorn here: Musonius Rufus
- Farab (Otrar) KazakhstanBorn here: al-Farabi (uncertain)
- Tyre LebanonBorn here: Porphyry
- Amsterdam NetherlandsBorn here: Baruch SpinozaWorked here: René Descartes
- The Hague NetherlandsWorked here: Baruch Spinoza
- Breslau (Wrocław) PolandBorn here: Christian Wolff
- Danzig (Gdańsk) PolandBorn here: Arthur Schopenhauer
- Königsberg (Kaliningrad) RussiaBorn here: Immanuel Kant
- Córdoba SpainBorn here: Ibn Rushd, Maimonides
- Basel SwitzerlandWorked here: Friedrich Nietzsche
- Geneva SwitzerlandBorn here: Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Aleppo SyriaWorked here: Suhrawardi
- Aphrodisias TurkeyBorn here: Alexander of Aphrodisias
- Ephesus TurkeyBorn here: Heraclitus
- Hierapolis (Pamukkale) TurkeyBorn here: Epictetus
- Laertes TurkeyBorn here: Diogenes Laertius (uncertain)
- Miletus TurkeyBorn here: Thales
- Canterbury United KingdomWorked here: Anselm of Canterbury
- Duns United KingdomBorn here: John Duns Scotus (uncertain)
- Edinburgh United KingdomBorn here: David Hume
- Ockham United KingdomBorn here: William of Ockham
- Oxford United KingdomWorked here: John Duns Scotus, William of Ockham, John Locke
- Wrington United KingdomBorn here: John Locke
- Afshana UzbekistanBorn here: Ibn Sina
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