The Most Famous
SOCIOLOGISTS from Hungary
This page contains a list of the greatest Hungarian Sociologists. The pantheon dataset contains 79 Sociologists, 1 of which were born in Hungary. This makes Hungary the birth place of the 10th most number of Sociologists behind Russia, and Ukraine.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Hungarian Sociologists of all time. This list of famous Hungarian Sociologists is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Karl Mannheim (1893 - 1947)
With an HPI of 65.71, Karl Mannheim is the most famous Hungarian Sociologist. His biography has been translated into 43 different languages on wikipedia.
Karl Mannheim (born Károly Manheim, 27 March 1893 – 9 January 1947) was an influential Hungarian sociologist during the first half of the 20th century. He is a key figure in classical sociology, as well as one of the founders of the sociology of knowledge. Mannheim is best known for his book Ideology and Utopia (1929/1936), in which he distinguishes between partial and total ideologies, the latter representing comprehensive worldviews distinctive to particular social groups, and also between ideologies that provide support for existing social arrangements, and utopias, which look to the future and propose a transformation of society.
People
Pantheon has 1 people classified as Hungarian sociologists born between 1893 and 1893. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased Hungarian sociologists include Karl Mannheim.
