# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/richard-congreve
# Generated: 2026-08-14T08:46:34.565Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/richard-congreve"
name: "Richard Congreve"
slug: "richard-congreve"
description: "Richard Congreve was the first English philosopher to openly espouse the Religion of Humanity, the godless form of religious humanism that was introduced by Auguste Comte, as a distinct form of positivism. Congreve was the first thinker to offer a systematic policy, on positivist lines, to dismantle the British Empire. In 1859, after issuing controversial anti-imperialist pamphlets on Gibraltar and India, he delivered his 'first sermon' as a Positivist apostle and 'vicar' of the Religion of Humanity. He later founded the London Positivist Society in 1867 and, after a schism with his closest followers in 1878, he broke off to formally found the Comtist Church of Humanity."
tagline: "English philosopher (1818–1899)"
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gender: "male"
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profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1818-09-04"
deathDate: "1899-07-05"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  historical:           6.539021333333334
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  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump